Health and safety in health and social care 1.1 ‘The legislation relating to general health and safety in social care work settings: The Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999 Reporting of Injury‚ Disease and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 1995 (RIDDOR) The Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 (HASAWA) Food Safety Act 1990 Control of Substances Hazardous to Health Regulations (COSHH) 2002 Personal Protective Equipment at Work Regulations (PPE) 1992 Manual Handling Operations Regulations
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Explain what it means to have a duty of care in own work role? A 1.1 Duty of care is a legal obligation for each individual in the health and social care setting that requires them to adhere to a standard of reasonable care. Ensuring they don’t put their service users or themselves in any danger. In the workplace there are policies and procedures‚ agreed standards‚ codes of practice and other legislation a care worker should follow. In a care workers job role you would be responsible
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1. What duty of care means in children and young people settings? Duty of care is a requirement to exercise reasonable care‚ attention and caution to avoid negligence which would lead to the harm of other people. ‘The fundamental obligation that anyone working in child care‚ whatever the type of service and whatever their role‚ is to keep children safe.’ (Marilyn Hopkins LLB‚ Dip.Ed.. (March 2006). DUTY OF CARE. Available: http://www.rch.org.au/emplibrary/ecconnections/CCH_Vol9_No1_March2006
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went to St Georges Residential Home‚ while I was there I witnessed how important and how effective communication can be in terms of a health care setting. In extreme cases it could be a matter of life and death. For example if a senior carer is giving tablets to a service user and they don’t watch them taking them this will affect the service user in terms of health and medical reasons. All these service users need is some company. Environmental factors effecting communication – Factors like setting
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Hnc Care and Administrative Practice Principles of Professional Practice (H29S 34) The purpose of this essay is to compare the professional journeys undertaken by student nurses to become a mental health nurse‚ and a pediatric nurse. Another purpose is to also explain the registration process necessary for both professions and what is required to remain registered. To qualify as a mental health nurse‚ a student nurse is required to undertake a BSc in mental health nursing. The duration
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providing care‚ support and protection to users of HSC. Alternatively explain what you would do if you are in any of the following situations‚ and show your understanding of what a dilemma is. You need to use this case scenarios in order to answer LO 1.4. 1. A pregnant woman is killed from injuries sustained in a car wreck‚ but the foetus may still be able to sustain life by keeping the mother on life support. The wife had always said she would not want to be kept alive on life support if there
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date; home learning in house keeping and food hygiene. Novembre 08 to 09; adult literacy level 1 and 2 passed. Novembre09; adult numeracy level 1 passed. Octobre 09;Riley training centre clait passed. March 07 to 08; customer care training passed. February 05;health and safety and manuel handling training May 2000 to 2003;Ghana college. EMPLOYMENT HISTORY Octobre 2009 to Decembre 2010; Assistant house keeper/kitchen assistant at Oliver inn. Duties: Assist to day to day cleaning of rooms
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of children. It is a basic requirement of my job role to communicate with individuals and their families‚ other members of staff on a daily basis. Communicating with other staff members ensures effective team working and continuity of care. It also ensures any health and safety issues are recognised and reported. All carers attend hand over at the beginning of each shift and also complete communication books after attending an individual‚ thereby keeping other staff informed and aware of current situations
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RIDDOR is reporting injuries‚ diseases and dangerous occurrences in health and social care where they have policies that require employers‚ the self-employed and those in control of premises to report specified workplace incidents. RIDDOR requires employers‚ the self-employed to report deaths‚ certain types of injury and some occupational diseases and dangerous occurrences that may happen‚ which could happen inside or outside of work. Normally this would cover accidents or incidents what happens
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to analyze‚ predict‚ or otherwise explain the nature or behavior of a specified set of phenomena. In line with the definition‚ theories remain as conjectures explaining certain occurrences‚ but never will it attain the grounds earned by laws and principles as universal truths. In Developmental Psychology‚ theories govern the existence of human growth. Considering the case stated earlier‚ does it imply that the learning gained in studying this field is not reliable? Not at all. In medicine
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