stages as we grow older. I work with Service AC whom I have been working with for almost 3 years. AC is a young female Service User aged 22 who suffers from a borderline personality disorder‚ and is a recovering self-harmer and anorexic. AC experienced a traumatic childhood due to abuse within the family unit which therefore led to AC being removed from the care of her family and placed into foster care. AC appeared to find it difficult to adjust; this was shown through her self-damaging behaviors
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Health and social care services should be readily available to everyone within the UK‚ although people with learning disabilities may find access to such services extremely difficult‚ even in today’s society. This assignment looks at the issues surrounding access to health care services and aims to address the differences between health education and health promotion. It also highlights the legislation around health and social care and the importance for nurses to understand the inequalities in provision
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Introduction P1. One to one Effective one to one communication in a health and social care requires‚ listening skills‚ information- giving skills and questioning skills. Care workers communicate one to one on a daily basis in informal communication and formal communication. Informal communication can take place when a care worker is communicating with another work colleague who is also a friend‚ or when they have built a relationship with a patient or relative that they have known very well.
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In this task‚ I am required to explain the factors that positively influence communication and relate them to a health and social care or early years setting. In order for me to gain the best marks possible‚ it is important for me to do some thorough research‚ which will enable me to put forward some strong points‚ in relation to positive communication. Environmental Factors Environmental factors are all about the way in which we differ from each other. Everyone receives information in their own
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defined health as: ‘1) the state of being free from illness or injury; 2) a person’s mental or physical conditions’. The same dictionary defined wellbeing as: ‘the state of being comfortable‚ healthy or happy‘. Both health and wellbeing combined together can be defined as the sum of physical‚ mental‚ social and emotional part of a person. These are the ‘resources’ for health according to WHO’s 1986 Ottawa Charter‚ (Earle‚ 2007). It’s also inline with the health definition of the World Health Organisation
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Mentorship for Health Social Care Practitioner’s Introduction: Mentoring students in clinical practice is an important aspect of nursing. Nurses or mentors consider their profession to be practice based and work hard to ensure that a larger part of learning and assessment takes place in the clinical area. The Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC)‚ 2006 defines the term mentor as‚ the role of the nurse‚ midwife or health visitor who facilitates learning‚ supervises and assesses students in the practice
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Based on Gibbs reflective cycle The second part of my assignment was to conduct a literature search‚ and describe how I went about it. Week 3 of my first module Study Skills And Lifelong Learning‚ comprised of a session on literature searching. We were shown the university database Discovery‚ and Heather our course leader proceeded to explain‚ step by step how we can access this‚ on campus or from any location off campus. Discovery is a facility that allows you to search for books and journals
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Music and drama: in health and social care we have various individuals who have various needs in terms of providing services for them. However‚ service providers use music and drama in order for clients to be able to express themselves. The force of music‚ particularly singing help dementia clients to be able to communicate because they use it as a point expressing themselves. For example‚ in Stone End Day Centre where I did my placement‚ the staff used music and drama to be able to communicate with
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The main purpose of supervision is to improve quality of work so that staff can meet the outcomes that service users’ who use the services want to achieve. Personalisation of social care service means that staff will need support to respond to a new ways of working‚ develop new skills and adapt to different procedures. Supervision is a process of managing functions intended to promote the achievement of organisational goals and to enhance the personal and professional capabilities of staff (The University
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Describe physical‚ intellectual‚ emotional and social development for each of the life stages of an individual. Through every life stage we experience physical‚ intellectual and social and emotional development. Physical development is when the appearance of the body changes. Intellectual development is the mental process of knowing‚ for example problem solving. The social and emotional development is when your emotions‚ your personality and social interactions begin. Conception is the process
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