Reflective Account “End of Life” Last year 23 September 2012. I had a resident called “Mrs X” she was a 72year-old widowed living at ---‚ a Nursing Care Home. She’s not a religious type of person as she was Atheist. She has lived in the home for the past two years‚ and during that time I was assigned as her key worker. Mrs X had One Son and 3 grand daughters they are all regular visitors to the home. She has recently been diagnosed with renal failure‚ and her life expectancy is only a couple of
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Confidentiality 1) Confidentiality means that whatever information you hold on someone must not be shared with others. Information must be kept safe and private. You can only pass on information about someone if they have given their consent. 2) The Data Protection Act 1998 & 2003 is mandatory and has eight principles. These principles dictate how information is to be handled. Information should only be used for the use it was intended‚ it must not be given to anyone else without consent
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also to make sure that children are looked after properly and are getting the correct care and protection that they need at all times. All children have the right to live with their families unless there is a necessary reason that the child may be in danger and must be removed from their family home and placed in to care. By placing children in to care we
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HSC 51 Reflective account In my role as senior care worker‚ I work with variety of individuals including‚ colleagues‚ management‚ professionals‚ clients and their family members. The main group that I work with on day to day basis are residential clients that are both elderly and varied degrees of learning difficulties. These are individuals with limited ability to understand and process information given to them. This sometimes causes a barrier and challenge for the staff and especially for
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more specialist care. Autism is a lifelong developmental disability and affects how they see the world around them. People with Autism have said that the world around them can feel like a mass of people‚ places and events‚ which they struggle to make sense of. They also find it hard relating to people‚ understanding them and taking part in everyday family life and social events. People with Autism have difficulties with the following; social communication‚ social interaction and social imagination
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Effective communication is very important for all health and social care environments. Effective communication is defined as using verbal speech or non-verbal speech (e.g. sign language) to get another person to acknowledge and understand the point you are trying to get across. Talking slowly‚ clearly and in simple terms is an example of effective communication. (Yourdictionary‚ 2015) Communication involves passing information on and exchanging information with other people. There are different
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was being slapped in the face stomach and arms. There were also incidents of the lady being roughly handled even though she suffered from arthritis she was not spoken to when staff entered her room and would be put to bed by 530pm and left with no care until the following morning.
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6 BTEC Business ADR Fitness testing for sport and exercise Unit overview The purpose of this unit is to introduce students to the concepts of fitness testing and health screening. It is paramount the students develop the skills and experience which will allow them to carry out fitness tests. You will need to expose them to a variety of fitness tests to enhance their practical awareness. In addition they will also develop the skills and knowledge which will allow them to analyse test
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prepare children aged 3 – 4 yrs for full time education by using the basic foundation stage curriculum where children learn by structured play. This foundation stage provides a framework consisting of 6 areas of learning these are - • Personal‚ social and emotional development • Language‚ literacy and communication • Mathematical development • Knowledge and understanding of the world • Physical development • Creative development Staff provide a fun‚ safe learning environment so that
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In this task‚ I am required to explain the factors that positively influence communication and relate them to a health and social care or early years setting. In order for me to gain the best marks possible‚ it is important for me to do some thorough research‚ which will enable me to put forward some strong points‚ in relation to positive communication. Environmental Factors Environmental factors are all about the way in which we differ from each other. Everyone receives information in their own
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