Unit 8: Contribute to Health and Safety in Health and Social Care Unit code: HSC 027 QCF level: 2 Credit value: 4 Guided learning hours: 33 Unit summary This unit is aimed at those working in a wide range of settings. It provides the learner with the knowledge and skills required to carry out their work safely. This is a mandatory unit in both the Level 2 Diploma in Health and Social Care (Adults) for England (QCF) and the Level 2 Diploma in Health and Social Care
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Malaysia as well as a little about Asia and its ethnics as she too shared about where she resides in. However‚ our conversation shortly became rigid and tense as our cultural differences arose. Jenny had a frank and straightforward way of communicating which at some point was hurtful and discriminating. What anger me most was when Jenny assumed that I‚ as someone raised in an Asian country have poor command of English thus kept conversing with me like a child and believed that Asian countries
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Patient Gets Procedures Confused Jessica Adams is scheduled for a colonoscopy with Dr. Reilly. She thinks she is going to surgery but she is really going for a test. I am going to explain how easy it is to confuse colonoscopy with colostomy‚ especially if you are not well versed in medical terminology. You will also see how important it is to a Biller and Coder to know the difference. Colonoscopy is the process of visually examining the colon with an endoscope. Colostomy is “a surgical procedure
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Intervention Paper: Treatment Paradigm of Elderly Trauma Patients N569 Darren J Hunt‚ RN College of Nursing University of New Mexico Abstract As the population of our world grows older on average‚ the question of how to care for them becomes increasingly complex. With the longer life expectancy there exists a kind of Achilles heal regarding elderly trauma patients and the response to treatment for life-threatening injuries. The older trauma patient is often times a victim of slow trauma
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Dementia is mean‚ mind stealing disease that affects many elderly patients in different ways. It begins with forgetting small things like where you put your car keys‚ and escalates into forgetting yourself and your family. Many can function well with dementia for a period of time‚ but then generally have to transition into receiving help from family caregivers and/or nursing facilities such as nursing homes or assisted living. Dementia can turn a normal thinking person into an irrational person who
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60% of hospitalized older adults‚ and an estimate of 5%-10% of older adults living in community settings are malnourished (Maher and Eliadi‚ n.d.). These statistics sadly show that hospitalized and long-term care patients are more likely to become under nourished compared to the elderly population in the community. According to the Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI‚ 2007)‚
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Name Last Name 1 Professor’s Name ENC 1101 February 16‚ 2013 Mental Illness in the Elderly Patients Perceiving both a healthy emotional and well-being mental state are as essential in older age as at any other time of life. As one ages 60 or over‚ one tends to have got the likelihood of having dementia or mental impairment because of underlying disorders and diseases or due to the influence of drugs and alcohol; although it’s not a part of aging. Dementia is not a single disease in itself
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Jinjang and Klinik Kesihatan DBKL. Throughout the visit‚ I managed to observe a few things on regard with patient safety issues‚ doctor-patient relationship and communications‚ doctor-healthcare professional relationship‚ patient’s privacy and infection control as well. I had the chance to observe the 3D ophthalmoscopy procedure‚ which is usually done to confirm diagnosis of a diabetic patient for diabetic retinopathy. The procedure was done in a small and dark room. It was a very good experience
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In this journal‚ five RNs use the nursing process to put together a care plan for an elderly patient. Pedro Ruymán Brito-Brito‚ Cristina Oter-Quintana‚ Ángel Martín-García‚ Mª Teresa Alcolea-Cosín‚ Susana Martín-Iglesias and Domingo Ángel Fernández-Gutiérrez are the RNs who have developed a care plan for Mr. A who has “urinary incontinence” and has developed “social interaction problems” after his “prostatectomy”. Mr. A is a retired 75 year old man who has developed a urine leakage problem due to
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nurse-patient relationship.Although McCabe (2004‚ p.44) would describe it as a task-centredcommunication as one of the element caused the lack communication amongnurses‚ but I think my nurse-patient relationship communication both involved agood patient-centred communication and task-centred communication. In mypersonal opinion‚ I attended to Mrs. A as a patient to show my empathy becauseshe was unable to feed herself. It was also as my duty to feed her so that I couldmake sure the patient get the
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