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Handling
Information
In The
Workplace
The Data Protection Act 1998 protects the service user and all their information such as medical notes, personal information and the care they need to be receiving.
In your job role it is your responsibility to complete all paperwork that is assigned to the service user. The information contained in that folder should only be shared with colleagues no other service users or relatives of other users.
Finding Advice About Handling Information
Information can be found through your induction, training, employee handbook, managers, supervisors, other colleagues, policies and procedures book and the internet.
There is a policies and procedures book that contains information that can also help you with things such as how to keep information confidential.
The internet can also give you guidance on how to handle information it can also tell you all about the Laws and Legislations.
Recording, Sharing and Storing Information
Sharing Information
Person centred approaches in the workplace (Care plans) which involves service users information such as their medication, their health and well-being, their achievements and the support and care that they need to receive.
If any information that is important then this needs to be shared but only with the service users consent, if the service user doesn’t have the mental capacity to give consent then you should as a next of kin or a social worker if the service user doesn’t have a next of kin.
Recording Information
If you have any concerns about recording information or don’t understand the paperwork that needs to be filled out then you can ask a member of staff what is the correct way to complete the paperwork.
It is the assigned carers responsibility to complete this paperwork and to report to the nurse in charge of any bruising or broken areas on the skin. The nurse would then have to chart it on a body map and other documentation which would be in their care
Information
In The
Workplace
The Data Protection Act 1998 protects the service user and all their information such as medical notes, personal information and the care they need to be receiving.
In your job role it is your responsibility to complete all paperwork that is assigned to the service user. The information contained in that folder should only be shared with colleagues no other service users or relatives of other users.
Finding Advice About Handling Information
Information can be found through your induction, training, employee handbook, managers, supervisors, other colleagues, policies and procedures book and the internet.
There is a policies and procedures book that contains information that can also help you with things such as how to keep information confidential.
The internet can also give you guidance on how to handle information it can also tell you all about the Laws and Legislations.
Recording, Sharing and Storing Information
Sharing Information
Person centred approaches in the workplace (Care plans) which involves service users information such as their medication, their health and well-being, their achievements and the support and care that they need to receive.
If any information that is important then this needs to be shared but only with the service users consent, if the service user doesn’t have the mental capacity to give consent then you should as a next of kin or a social worker if the service user doesn’t have a next of kin.
Recording Information
If you have any concerns about recording information or don’t understand the paperwork that needs to be filled out then you can ask a member of staff what is the correct way to complete the paperwork.
It is the assigned carers responsibility to complete this paperwork and to report to the nurse in charge of any bruising or broken areas on the skin. The nurse would then have to chart it on a body map and other documentation which would be in their care