Chapter 1 Psychology in health and social care Key topics ll Relevance of studying psychology ll Schools of thought in psychology ll Psychology in practice: people and practice ll How to make effective use of this book ll Introducing the ‘psychosoap’ family Introduction Our purpose throughout this book is to offer ideas from psychology that can be applied to your work in health or social care. Our objectives are to enable you to: ll apply evidence-based
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Health&Social Care (adult) Advanced Diploma including Dementia Pathway Unit CU1572 Support Use of Medication in Social Care Settings 1.1. There are four acts that governs the use of medication in social care settings. a.) The Medicine act 1968 -governs the manufacture & supply of medicines. This requires that the local pharmacist or dispensing doctor is responsible for supplying medication. He or she can only do this on the receipt of a prescription from an authorised person eg a doctor.
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Empowering Users of Health and Social care Services Contents Introduction 3 1.1. Influence of Organizational Policies and Practices by Current Legislation and Sector Skills Standards for Promoting and Maximizing the Rights of Users of Health and Social Care service 3 1.2. Factors that May Affect the Achievement of promoting and maximizing the rights of users of health and social care service 4 1.3 How communication between care workers and the individuals contribute to promoting and maximizing
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Road accidents have earned India a dubious distinction. With over 130‚000 deaths annually‚ the country has overtaken China and now has the worst road traffic accident rate worldwide.This has been revealed by the World Health Organization (WHO) in its first ever Global Status Report on Road Safety. The report pointed to speeding‚ drunk driving and low use of helmets‚ seat belts and child restraints in vehicles as the main contributing factors .Every hour‚ 40 people under the age of 25 die in road
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Road accident | Not a single day passes off these days without the news of road accidents claiming lives of the people. No sooner had the Karnali road accident happened in Jajarkot in which several dozen people were killed a fortnight ago‚ a bus accident claimed six lives in Prithvi Highway the other day when the speeding bus skidded off the road to plunge in the Trishuli River. Similar major and minor accidents occur regularly on the highways‚ feeder roads and fair weather tracks killing passengers
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Unit 2 – introduction to personal development in Health‚ Social care or Children’s and Young people’s settings. 1.1 Key Responsibilities: * To support individuals in their home and in the community. * To support service users to ensure that their physical‚ social‚ emotional and intellectual needs are met. * To support the personal development of each service user‚ ensuring that they are treated as an individual with their own unique support needs. * To ensure that the dignity and
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has since been received. This provides for a dedicated communication system for disaster management with built in redundancies. Besides the satellite‚ communication and education can play a proactive role in mitigation through awareness about the types of disaster and as to how prevention measures can be taken up. There is also a Satellite based communication system called the Cyclone Warning Dissemination Systems (CWDS) for transmission of warnings. There are 250 such cyclone-warning sets installed
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Road accidents are reported in newspaper and on television every day. There are more frequently caused by reckless drivers rather than faulty vehicles. Last Saturday‚ while I was travelling from Ipoh‚ I witnessed a serious accident. The scene of the accidents was vivid in my mind. A motorcyclist was following behind was taxi very closely. He was so impatient that he was trying to overtake my taxi even near a sharp bend. At that critical moment‚ there was an oncoming car. The taxi driver
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Theory Management / Root Cause • Management Structure objectives organization operations Operational Error Manager behavior/Supervisor behavior Tactical Error unsafe acts unsafe conditions LCU Theory • Accident probability is situational • Overload taxes person’s capacity • Leads to accidents (or illness) • >300 → 79% in 2 yrs • >200 → 51% in 2 yrs • >150 → 37% in 2 yrs #1 Death of Spouse 100 #2 Divorce 73 #3 Marital Separation 65 #4 Jail term 63 #5 Death of family 63 #6 personal injury 53 #12
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How policies and procedures promote health‚ safety and security in a health and social care setting Employer’s role in a care setting The employer’s position is to supervise the health‚ security and safety of all the staff‚ visitors‚ volunteers to the grounds of the building and also its service users. Employers may assign accountability for health and safety to the employees‚ health and safety agents‚ administrators and the service users as well. But‚ it is still the employer’s job to have
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