Describe how incorrect handling and moving techniques can damage the skin. Identify a range of interventions that can reduce the risk of skin breakdown and pressure sores. Describe the changes to an individual skin conditions that should be reported. It is important to avoid or prevent the vulnerable areas or where sores has already formed. Regularly changing position or moving helps to prevent pressure sores developing in a vulnerable areas or to relieve already existing ones.
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improving the health and quality of life for people with dementia There are many health professionals who provide services that are available to individuals with dementia. Health care services include home care‚ day care and services provided by doctors and nurses. The services available and the way they are organised‚ vary from area to area. Health and social care professionals have a duty to work closely with each other and communicate with each other to provide the best support and care with those
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at least five (5) culturally competent care to actively partake in the multicultural health care setting. Now days‚ multicultural populations in other states were offering new challenges in the provision of culturally competent care by critical care nurses. If the provision of the best possible care for all patients is the goal‚ critical care nurses must have expertise and skill in the delivery of culturally appropriate and culturally competent nursing care. Nurses must be cultural competent before
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25/2/12 Health and safety at work act 1974 The Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 is the primary piece of legislation covering work-related health and safety in the United Kingdom. It sets out a lot of your employers’ responsibilities for your health and safety at work. The Health and Safety Executive is responsible for enforcing health and safety at work. Your employer has a ’duty of care’ to ensure‚ as far as possible‚ your health‚ safety and welfare while you’re at work. They should start
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Assignment Submission Course:Health and social care level 3 Assignment Number:Six Date Submitted:28/05/2012 Preferred Feedback Method:Post Online 6.1 Analyse the principle factors‚ which can contribute to anorexia. Understanding the causes of eating disorders is further complicated by the fact that actions that are designed to achieve weight loss can actually cause some disturbed eating behaviour. The effects of semi-starvation‚ also called dieting‚ can cause physiological changes that
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and family as its all private and confidential. 1/2 Relationship in health and social care setting comes in three types policy making‚ adminidtrive and the hand on staff working relationship. 2/1 Enable you to know your job role and responsibility. If you have had no training you could ask your team leader or manager to show you are ask for full training‚ so you don’t put yourself or other at risk of injury. 2/2 there are care plans in place which I read for the needs of the client and commotion
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Assignment 206: Understand the role of the social care worker. Task A – Short Answer Questions Ai Explain three differences between a working relationship and a personal relationship. * A working relationship involves spending time with senior members of staff‚ colleagues and service users and the time spent together is strictly professional and boundaries must not be crossed. However a personal relationship involves enjoying a social life‚ spending time with family and friends and completing
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Principles of Health and Social Care Practice Introduction This unit develops understanding of the values and principles that underpin the practice of all those who work in health and social care. The essay consider theories and policies that underpin health and social care practice and explore formal and informal mechanisms required to promote good practice by individuals in the workforce‚ including strategies that can influence the performance of others. The first part of this essay will consider
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Social policy in the health and social care sector The aim of this unit is to enable learners to investigate the origins of social policies and their impact on health and social care services. Social policy relates to guidelines for the changing‚ maintenance or creation of living conditions that are conducive to human welfare. Thus social policy is that part of public policy that has to do with social issues. Social policy aims to improve human welfare and to meet human needs for education‚ health
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Know how legislation‚ guidelines‚ policies and procedures promote health‚ safety and security P2‚ M1 Legislation and Guidelines Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 (HASAWA) The UK has one of the lowest accident rates in the world. This act is one of the main reasons for this. Legislation over the last 30 years has helped bring about significant improvements in health and safety in the workplace‚ including a reduction of fatalities of nearly 2/3 since the act was introduced. However even now
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