Implementing Electronic Health Records (EHR) a Difficult Task Ahsun Jaat Student #: 211593118 Tutorial #3 TA: Vishaya Naidoo Due Date: November 14th‚ 2012 Introduction Electronic Health Records (EHR) are a system developed for doctors to document health records electronically as oppose to the old fashion way of writing everything down on paper and relying on memory to help patients with their medical problems (Ash 2004). Technology has now turned into need for almost every individual living
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The media issue of greatest importance to me would have to be the media’s disdain for having a "duty of care". I believe that each source of media should be obligated to portray the truth in its entirety. Unfortunately‚ we fall victim consistantly to media exposure that has been altered‚ withheld‚ and fabricated for the purposes of financial gain or status quo. There are many sources of media that neglect moral value to get higher ratings or a greater following. For example‚ recent reportings of
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the philosophy and principles of palliative care; Palliative care According to the World Health Organization (who) palliative care as “an approach that improves the quality of life of individuals and their families facing the problems associated with life-threatening illness‚ through the prevention and relief of suffering by means of early identification and impeccable assessment and treatment of pain and other problems‚ physical ‚psychosocial and spiritual” End of life care can be in two situations
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INTRODUCTION. Principles of support is an important element for a successful health and care setting‚ they are applied in health and social care to ensure that clients are cared for in the best possible way. This assay is going to define what principles are and how they are applied in health and social care sectors. It will also talk about protection of individuals from harm‚ person cantered approach‚ ethical dilemmas according to the scenarios given‚ implementation of policies‚ legislation‚ regulations
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Understand Health and Safety in Social Care Settings – Unit 208 1.1 List legalisation relating to general health and safety in a social care setting The settings in which you work are generally covered by the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 (HASAWA). This Act has been updated and supplemented by many sets of regulations and guidelines‚ which extended it‚ support it or explain it. The regulations most likely to affect your workplace are shown in the following diagram. The Health and Safety at
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Standard 6 Principles of safeguarding in health and social care Your N ame: Workplace: Start Date: Completion Date: Contents 1. Recognising signs of harm or abuse 2. Ways to reduce likelihood of abuse 3. Responding to suspected or disclosed ab use 4. National and local context of protection from harm and abuse 5. Questions CIS Assess ment Induction Work book – Six Page 2 of 21 Standard 6 Principles of safeguarding in health and social care 1. Recognising signs of harm
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Implementing Change Inevitable in all organizations is change and the success or failure of that change can be a result of how well the manager implements and manages any changes. According to Leban and Stone (2008‚ “What is change management‚” para. 5) “successful change requires a critical mass of people who are committed‚ are willing to change‚ and will sustain their new behavior to align with the needs of the change.” With this paper I will discuss a manager’s role and responsibility in implementing
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Discrimination is the prejudicial treatment of an individual based on their membership in a certain group or category. For example‚ religion‚ skin colour. 1.2 Describe ways in which discrimination may deliberately or inadvertently occur in the work setting Indirect Discrimination: Indirect discrimination occurs when policies and practices‚ which appear fair because they are applied to everyone‚ but turn out to disadvantage people and particular groups within society. For example‚ if a job advertisement
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CU2470 – Handle Information in Health and Social Care Settings 1.1 The Data Protection Act 1998 is an Act of Parliament which defines UK law on the processing of data on identifiable living people. It is the main piece of legislation that governs the protection of personal data in the UK. In practice it provides a way for individuals to control information about themselves. The Act defines eight data protection principles which are: 1. Personal data shall be processed fairly and lawfully
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there are three key ethical principles. Autonomy‚ this applies to the freedom to one’s choice and for this reason the right to self-determination; Nonmaleficence means no harm is to be made to patients intentionally or unintentionally and; Beneficence‚ this implies doing good for patients. In case of an emergency‚ treatments may have to started without consent‚ e.g.‚ in a traffic incident when the patient had a cardiac arrest‚ this complies with the ethical principle of beneficence. Obtaining
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