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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explain what is ment by diversity/equality/inclusion/diversity . DIVERSITY diversity means visible and non-visible that exist between people. diversity is even though people have things in common with each other‚they are still diffrent and unique in many ways‚ diversity is recognising and valuing those diffrences EQUALITY equality means treating people equaly and in a way that is appropriate for there needs‚equality isnt about treating everyone the same way‚ but it recognises that their needs
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Unit 1 Health Social Care Child Care Contents This booklet provides information for a range of service provisions in Health Social Care and Child Care listed are the qualifications‚ experience‚ pay‚ skills needed to be able to succeed in each profession. Health * Midwife * Mental Health Nurse * Nursery Nurse and Nursery Assistant * Summary nursing and career progression routes Social Care * Social worker * Probation Officer * Foster Carer Child
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Collaborative Practice in Health Care Collaborative practice in health care occurs when a member of the health care team consults with another member to provide patient care. Collaboration most often occurs between doctors and nurses. "Collaboration is defined as a relationship of interdependence; the ability to work together involves trust and respect not only of each other but of the work and perspectives each contributes to the care of the patient" (Phipps and Schaag‚ 1995‚ p. 19). Effective
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NRSCS3034 MENTORSHIP IN HEALTH CARE PRACTICE Mentorship Essay. The NMC (2005) describes the mentor as a “nurse‚ midwife or specialist community public health nurse who facilitates learning and supervises and assesses students in the practice setting”. Morton-Cooper and Palmer (1993) see the mentor as “someone who provides an enabling relationship which in turn facilitates another’s personal growth and development. They later went on to say in (2000) the mentor takes on numerous roles whilst
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ABUSE AND ITS MANIFESTION WITH THE HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE SETTING. Abuse comes in all forms and here are examples of abuse. PHYSCIAL ABUSE: Includes hitting‚ slapping‚ scratching‚ pushing‚ kicking‚ and misuse of medication‚ restraint or inappropriate sanctions. The sign’s of this is marks on the body that can’t be explained also doing what’s done to them to fellow housemates. PSYCHOLOICAL ABUSE: Includes emotional abuse‚ threats of harm or abandonment‚ deprivation of contact‚ humiliation
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A principle for implementing duty of care in health‚ social care or children’s and young people’s setting. SHC 34 Outcome 1 To have a duty of care means providing care and support for individuals within the law and also within the policies‚ procedures and agreed ways of working of the Employer. A negligent act could be unintentional but careless or intentional that results in abuse or injury. A negligent act is breaching the duty of care. If an individual has evidence that you have been
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Safeguarding in Health and Social Care Under the Health and Social Care Act (2008)‚ abuse is defined as: “Single or repeated act or lack of appropriate action occurring within any relationship where there is an expectation of trust which causes harm or distress including physical‚ emotional‚ verbal‚ financial‚ sexual‚ racial abuse‚ neglect and abuse through misapplication of drugs.” Abuse can happen to anyone‚ anywhere‚ at any time. However‚ it is so alarming that more and more elderly people suffer
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Unit 2 Task 1 P2 Describe discriminatory practice in health and social care 1. Overt discrimination This is when discrimination is “clear and up front” despite equality legislation making it illegal. For example paying a male nurse more money than a female nurse for the same job because of his gender. It could also be refusing to treat a patient because they are of a different race or religion. 2. Covert Discrimination This is the opposite of Overt Discrimination. It is when the discrimination
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SHC34 Assessment for Principles for implementing duty of care in health‚ social care or children’s and young people’s settings Task 1.1 : 1 What it means to have a duty of care in own role The fundamental obligation that anyone working in child care‚ whatever the type of service and whatever their role‚ is to keep children safe (CHILDCARE AND CHILDREN’S HEALTH VOL. 9 NO. 1 MARCH 2006 p1). Duty of care means a requirement to exercise a reasonable degree of attention and caution
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