assessment is a plan put in place to reduce the risk of harm occurring‚ it aims to identify potential risks to the health‚ safety or security of a care practitioner. Risk assessments have to be held under the health and safety at work act and Management of Health and Safety Regulations 1999. It is a lawful document and if not carried out care organisations can face prosecution. The HSE (health and safety executive) can request risk assessments at any time to make sure they are being done and are up to
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loneliness‚ or lack of social support‚ because he is alone‚ he doesn’t have any support from eachother‚ or nobody is interested to help him b) what action to take if a service confides in you that they are being abused If a service user confides in me that he is being abused I need to take a case seriously. I can’t ignore a Resident‚ no matter what but it also is very important to gather more information before seriouse measurments will be taken. First of all I need to take care of patient he need
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Assignment Brief HSC Number 1 Task type: Question and answers‚ with reflection where applicable. Pathway: NR Task reference: Task name: Unit 33 Description of Task: Questions to demonstrate your knowledge of the process and experience of Dementia. Scope of Task The following areas are to be covered / discussed / referred to in your answers: Causes of dementia. Types of memory impairment. How individuals process information. Other causes of behavioural changes. Personality changes. Changes
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Unit 4- Development through the life stages. M1 Task. The Nature and Nurture debate The nature and nurture debate is a debate on whether aspects of your life such as; gender‚ sexuality‚ illness‚ intelligence‚ personality‚ etc. is determined by your genes you get from your parents (nature) or if it is influenced by the environment you are brought up in (nurture). For example‚ you place a monkey and a young child in the same environment would that have an effect on their personality. A biological
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asked me to check policies and procedures relating to health‚ safety and security to see how they link legislation and guidelines. The main points of the following pieces of legislation and how there have a positive effect on the service delivery within your work experience setting. COSHH stands for control of substances hazardous to health regulation. COSHH is for using chemicals or other hazardous substances at work can put people’s health at risk so the law requires employers to control exposure
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Assignment 304 – Principles for implementing duty of care in health‚ social care or children’s and young people settings. Task C Ci) Organisational requirements for dealing with complaints The setting should have Concerns and Complaints Policy in place. The main aim of it is to ensure that complaints procedure is properly and effectively implemented and that service users feel confident that their complaints and worries are listened to and acted upon promptly and fairly. When dealing
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planning provision‚ informing policy or practice‚ extending knowledge and understanding‚ improving practice‚ aiding reflection‚ allowing progress to be monitored and finally examining topics of contemporary importance. Every single health professional who is involved when care planning use different research principles to identify the needs of each individual they are looking after. For example at my placement which is at a Nursery the staff need to make sure that every child has exercise to keep their
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Energy Metabolism Respiration and the Respiratory System- The respiratory system is in charge of getting the oxygen needed for respiration to the blood flow where it is passed by the blood cells around the body to reach each living cell. The lungs have a huge blood supply and a huge surface area so they are very effective at getting oxygen out of the air. They are also in charge of getting rid of the carbon dioxide excess and some of the excess water as water vapour. It is the lungs job to
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2004 The NHS and community care act 1990 The data protection act 1984 The mental health act 1983 Sex discrimination acts 1975 and 1986 Care standards act 2000 Care home regulations 2001 European convention on human rights and fundamental freedoms 1950 The convention on the rights of the child 1989 Human rights act 1998 The disability discrimination act 2005 GSCC code of practice for social care workers GSCC code of practice
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This assignment will describe how legislation‚ policies and procedures are used to promote the safety of individuals in a health and social care setting. Data protection act 1998 By holding data of the students and the staff at Portland College‚ this act is very important to keeping the individuals’ information safe and secure. At Portland College there are many ways in which the college have their student’s details‚ such as written on paper‚ stored on databases on the computer and also in records
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