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    Unit 5 Principles of Safeguarding and Protection in health and social care 1.1‚ 1.2 Physical Abuse Physical abuse is abuse involving contact intended to cause feelings of intimidation‚ pain‚ injury‚ or other physical suffering or bodily harm.. Physical abuse includes... * Hitting / slapping / kicking * Pushing * Pinching * Force feeding * Burning / scalding * Misuse of medication or restraint * Catheterisation for the convenience of staff * Refusing access to

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    Careers With-in Health and Social Care There are many careers with-in the Health and Social Care Sector which require different levels of experience and qualifications. Below is a list of some of the careers and their explanations and levels of experience and qualifications you need before you can carry out these roles. The list I have provided is not exhaustive and there are also many other careers that you can do within the Health and Social care sector but I hope it gives evidence that I have

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    CU254 Causes and Spread of Infection 1. Understand the causes of infection. 1.1 Identify the differences between bacteria‚ viruses‚ fungi and parasites. Bacteria – a single cell micro-organism that gets its nutrition from its surroundings and can only be seen under a microscope. Viruses - are disease producing agents far smaller than bacteria. They are enclosed in a protein coating which makes them more difficult to destroy. Fungi – are included in the plant kingdom but are quite different

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    5.1. The different reasons people communicate are: - To share; opinions‚ information‚ thoughts‚ knowledge‚ feelings‚ emotions‚ needs and wants. - To socialise‚ build and maintain relationships to satisfy our constant need to relate to others and have them relate to us. - To request or demand something. - To learn‚ teach and educate. - To persuade‚ argue and inform. - To compliment. - To experience. - To soothe others. - To gain attention. - To conduct business - For pleasure (film‚

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    The field of Social work is broad in terms of service delivery. Social workers can work in several institutions like Hospitals‚ Schools‚ Communities‚ Day care centers‚ with families‚ in government established re-habilitation centers etc. My focus in this write-up is to highlight the theoretical perspectives of social work practice in the hospital. A social worker who specializes in this aspect of social work can work in other health care settings. In the hospitals‚ social workers can work in several

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    The types of incidents and emergencies which are arising in section A‚ • Accidents in this section we can see that the accident has happened because a s they quoted ‘some this explains that one of the staff member was abusing one of the elderly person. • Fire is also accrued in section A in the accidents ‘The flooding has caused electrical and a fire has started the lower floor kitchen of the home and is a spreading quickly’ this shows that fire started in the resident’s floor. • Major disaster

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    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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    welfare state with social security‚ NHS‚ free education‚ council housing and full employment. After the war‚ the labour government tried to make this vision come true. The issues that needed to be tackled were want‚ disease‚ ignorance‚ squalor‚ idleness. Class notes During my lifetime I have used many services that provide health and social care such as hospitals‚ nursery‚ doctors‚ playgroups‚ schools‚ health visitors‚ etc. We have all used some of these health care providers and found

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    IN HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE Standards & Guidelines for Resolution & Learning 1 April 2009 SUMMARY Complaints in Health and Social Care: Standards and Guidelines for Resolution and Learning replaces the existing HPSS Complaints Procedure 1996 and provides a streamlined process that applies equally to all health and social care (HSC) organisations. As such it provides a simple‚ consistent approach for staff who handle complaints and for people raising complaints across all health and social

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    caregiver problems‚ they are population level and public health concerns. Philosophical imperative to protect children The Nursing profession has a strong historical foundation in social justice. Social justice is a concept that has been analyzed‚ argued and debated about for decades in the nursing literature‚ but there seems to be relative agreement that nursing has demonstrated a commitment to addressing the social determinants of health‚ to advocating for the underserved and the vulnerable

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