Failure in Care Homes Every year there are around 800 fires in homes providing care for older persons in the UK. On average 5 people die each year and a further 90 are injured.Over the past 10 years 45 people have died and 1000 have been injured. Added to this is the true cost of pain‚suffering and impact on families and careworkers. Primary causes of fires in care homes are faulty electrical appliances or wiring‚ cooking facilities‚ smoking related combustion‚ misuse of equipment and deliberate
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SHC 34 Principles for implementing duty of care The fundamental obligation that anyone working in child care has is to keep children safe. The legal term duty of care refers to this obligation and has major implications for a setting and the operation of its services. “Duty of Care” means providing care and support for individuals within the law and also within the policies‚ procedures and agreed ways of working of your employer. It is about avoiding abuse and injury to individuals‚ their
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Duty of care- when caring for people that are able and capable of doing things on their own but are in your care. If there is a basketball session and the floor is not dry or hasn’t been dried properly and a child slips and has an injury the person that is caring for the child in the session can be sued for negligence. It’s the duty of the carer to make sure it’s safe to play in a certain activity. Higher duty of care- is for people that are less able of doing basic things daily on their own (young
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THE CONCEPT OF CARE AND THE NURSING METAPARADIGM Caring is a core element in nursing even yet it remains elusive to the entire nursing metaparadigm. All nurses as required by their profession must be caring. For it is through caring that nursing derives its uniqueness and contributes significantly to health care (Thorne‚ Canam‚ Dahinten‚ Hall‚ Henderson‚ and Kirkham‚ 2002). This is not only the patient as an individual but the family and community as well. Further as the nursing profession continues
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Duty of Care and Health Unit 205 To Megan‚ Am just replying to your letter about what’s involved in Care work so u have a better idea about it before you decide whether to apply or not. There’s a lot of duties involved in Care work‚ you must be able to act in the best interests of the residents for example‚ be able to assist them with dressing and undressing‚ help them to the toilet‚ make sure you’re feeding them well and that you give them plenty of fluids. If they’re not able to do it themselves
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Insurance First off I would like to state my opinion that health care is a right‚ not a privilege. Most Americans have the same view as me and believe that everyone should have health care. One of the reasons Obama was elected was because of his view on health care. In the 2009 study it states that there were 18‚000 deaths from preventable illnesses that could have been treated by doctors if they had proper health care coverage. In perspective‚ that’s six times the number of people who died
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Programme Unit Title: Working in Partnership in Health and Social Care Student Name Edexcel BTEC Levels 4 and 5 Higher Nationals in Health and Social Care Unit Code: 5 Date Issued: Aug 2013 Assignment Evaluation Sheet – Working in Partnership in Health and Social Care St Patrick Student ID No.: Edexcel Registration No.: Date of submission 17:00 on 26th Oct 2013 Lecturer Name: Chris Tapp Internal Verifier Name: Shirley Yearsley ACHIEVING A PASS ALL assessment criteria must
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Patient Care September 17‚ 2013 Citation: www.webmed.com Medical Terminology Text book The Medical profession isn’t all about treating illness it’s also about enhancing patient care in any way possible. Patient care has a variety of benefits and all can improve the quality of life for both practical and vocational nurses and the people they care for. Patient care involves the sharing of information with patients that is tailored to their particular
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teaching‚ I equated palliative care with death. After all‚ donʼt all palliative care patients die? And how else would a naive clerk define death? I equated it with defeat. Had I not just spent two years learning how to help people live? I saw palliative care as a failure: everything about it was negative: no‚ we are not going to resuscitate; no‚ we are not going to offer curative treatment; no‚ this patient will not live. My attitude towards palliative care was only reinforced by a certain
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Nurses Improve on Promptness of Care to Their Patients Walden University NURS 4005 Section 01‚ Topics in Clinical Nursing March 23‚ 2014 Nurses Improve on Promptness of Care to Their Patients Overview In reviewing the Nurse-Sensitive Quality Indicator Dashboard‚ the plan is to target patient satisfaction indicators and develop a nursing action plan based on best practices. The purpose of this paper is to analyze promptness of nurses in caring for their patients and
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