Understand potential hazards in Health and Social Care Assignment Introduction In this unit I will explain six potential hazards in a Health and Social Care setting. These hazards in the Health and Social Care setting can all affect the people working in that environment; there are a lot of hazards which can be found in every surface of the setting. In a residential or day care setting‚ much is done to ensure that service users‚ and therefore staff as well‚ are protected from harm. The group of users
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Task 1- P1‚ P2 and M3 Public health is looking at the health of a community and population. It looks at factors affecting the health of community such as: diets‚ age‚ sex‚ working conditions and social class. The World Health Organisation (WHO) monitors the health of the world and promotes the importance of preventing communicable and non-communicable diseases in order to give people healthier lives. There are strategies set in place to help improve public health. The main for that I will be talking
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The Northern Ireland Social Care Council provides social care workers‚ Mangers and Social workers with a code of conduct for their practice. With registering with the NISCC the employee is agreeing to adhere by the standards set and take responsibility for their own professional development. Additionally the employer must provide the training opportunities and encourage staff to maintain the standards within the social care sector. If an employee fails to keep up with these standards they can become
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Effective Communications in Health and Social Care Within this essay‚ the role of effective communication and interpersonal interaction in a health and social care context will be explained. It will also be linked to experiences in work placements for example‚ may be at a care home for adults with learning disabilities‚ and physical disabilities. The five contexts which will be researched are; one to one communication‚ group communication‚ multi agency working‚ multi professional working also communication
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A possible influence on dietary intake could be diabetes; its full name is diabetes mellitus. It is a condition where insulin is not being produced by the pancreas or it is not being produced in sufficient amounts or even the body cannot use insulin properly. There are two types of diabetes IDDM which is commonly known as type 1 this is the most severe type of diabetes and is treated with insulin injections. MIDDM is known as type 2 diabetes and is less serious it can be treated with diet or tablets
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P2: describe the discriminatory practices in heath and social care P3: describe the potential effects of discriminatory practices on those who use the health and social care service. I am going to write about the discriminatory practices in a care setting and the effects they have on individuals using the service. People can be discriminated against in a number of different ways which can be described as telling people apart‚ and seeing the differences instead of the person’s individualism. Prejudice
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of higher cognitive functions. These include impairment of thinking‚ memory and orientation‚ learning ability‚ language judgement. The resulting disability depends on the interaction between the underlying disease process‚ the individual and the social and built environment. 1.2 Describe the key functions of the brain that are affected by dementia. The key functions of the brain that are affected are: • Parietal Lobe – For behaviour‚ special awareness and recognition. • Frontal Lobe – For
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South Thames College Unit 2: Equality and Diversity Bianca Palas P2P3M1 | 1319936 Report by: Bianca Palas Aim: My aim for this report is to be able to identify the discriminatory practices based on three different true-to-life scenarios. I also intend on exploring into further details the possible effects of the discriminatory practices that has been done on the elderly people involved in the three different situations. The three major types of discriminatory practice I will be focusing
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L.O: Understand concepts of equality‚ diversity and rights in relation to health and social care D1: Analyse the benefits of understanding diversity in relation to health and social care Diversity is something described between the differences of two individuals. Diversity means that all individuals showed be respected and valued‚ therefore you must be aware of the individual’s differences and must not barricade the way they have been cared for. It is you knowing and looking after an individual with
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Unit 7 Task 4 P3 There are many different social‚ biological and social reasons women’s health differentiates to men’s. Women are shown statistically to live longer than men although men have better health then women‚ I am going to talk about the different reasons why women’s health is statistically worse then men’s. I am going to group them as Social‚ biological and emotional reasons for women’s ill health. Social Reasoning for women’s ill health First of all women are shown to be more
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