risks involved in donating blood (Jorgensen et al 2004). Adverse reactions can include the following dizziness‚ feeling faint or fainting and nausea i.e. vasovagal reactions and also bruising‚ haematoma formation‚ nerve injury/pain to the venepuncture site . A vasovagal reaction could lead to a donor injury due to a fall post donation and a needle complication could cause long lasting complications (Horowitz 2005). Blood establishments
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blood samples Unit sector reference: HSC 3053 Level: 3 Credit value: 3 Guided learning hours: 24 Unit accreditation number: D/601/8860 Unit purpose and aim This unit is aimed at health and social care professionals involved in the use of venepuncture/phlebotomy techniques and procedures to obtain venous blood samples from individuals for investigations. Learning Outcomes The learner will: Assessment Criteria The learner can: 1 Understand legislation‚ 1.1 Describe current policy and good
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ERR Ai- imagine you are a newly appointed supervisor within your service. You need to update your staff handbook to reflect current employment law. Identify 3 different sources of information you could use to enable you to do this. To update the staff handbook to reflect current employment law you could get your information from- other colleagues in your workplace‚ websites that give the current employment law (direct gov)‚ books on current employment laws and regulations. Aii a- list 3 aspects
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Domain 1: PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE. Professional Practice‚ relates to the professional‚ legal and ethical responsibilities which require demonstration of a satisfactory knowledge base‚ accountability for practice‚ functioning in accordance with legislation affecting nursing and health care‚ and the protection of individual and group rights. 1. Practises in accordance with legislation affecting nursing practice and health care 2.1 Practices in accordance with legislation affecting nursing
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IDEAS AND TERMS A. Etymology Greek word‚ ‘eidos’ which means image Our mind contains ideas which are formed through our encounter with reality – with everything knowable through the human mind. Definition IDEA is defined as the representation of the essence of a thing in the mind. Expressed differently‚ an idea is a mental (intellectual) image or a picture of the object of the mind which is the result of comparison‚ reflection or abstraction. Being a representation of the essence of a thing in the
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Unit 4222-264 The principles of infection prevention and control Outcome 1 Understand roles and responsibilities in the preventiont and control of infections 1.1. Explain employee’s roles and responsibilities in relation to the prevention and control of infection. Infection is a major cause of human suffering. Even relatively minor infections can become more serious‚ leading to major infection and can‚ in some cases‚ lead to patient death. In addition to patient suffering‚ infection causes
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Two of the common topical anaesthetic agents used in emergency departments are amethocaine gel (or An Gel cream) and EMLA cream. Amethocaine gel is used exclusively in the general emergency department I work in for intravenous cannulation or venepuncture in children. Amethocaine gel is considered to be the more favourable choice in topical anaesthetics and replaced EMLA cream. In fact‚ the staff was given little choice but to use the Amethocaine gel as EMLA was completely removed from the department
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This assignment will reflect on and critically analyse my personal and professional development in the domain of care management over the last three years. It will additionally outline how I plan to continue to develop in this domain once I have qualified as a registered nurse. My development so far will be analysed from the perspective of the skills‚ knowledge and values required of a registered nurse. Through this reflection I hope to confirm that my practice meets the standards for entry onto
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Acknowledgement Apart from the efforts of researcher‚ the success of any project depends largely on the encouragement and guidelines of many others. The researcher take this opportunity to express a gratitude to the people who played an important role in the successful completion of this project. Abstract Background: Staff nurses are exposed to blood and other body fluids in the course of their day to day activities in general medical ward. Standard precautions are designed to reduce the
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In this assignment‚ I will reflect upon my clinical experience and my education to date. In doing this I will highlight potential areas of development needed and will address these through Personal Development Planning. The rationale for doing this assignment is to enhance my professional development by undertaking an annotated reflective report. In this assignment I will focus and discuss my chosen theme which is Multi-disciplinary team working (MDT). This will mention roles within the MDT
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