Systemic infection affects a number of organs, tissues or affects the whole body for example type 2 diabetes, aids and hyper tension and Localised infections are confined to one organ system or area in the body for example abscesses, boils or sprains.…
1. Identify legislation and codes of practice that relate to handling information in health and social care…
In this assignment, you will complete tasks to demonstrate your knowledge of the importance of effective communication in adult social care settings, and ways to overcome barriers to meet individual needs, wishes and preferences in communication. You will also address the principles and practices relating to confidentiality.…
In this assignment, you will complete tasks to demonstrate your knowledge of the importance of effective communication in adult social care settings, and ways to overcome barriers to meet individual needs, wishes and preferences in communication. You will also address the principles and practices relating to confidentiality.…
Bii. Explain what a social care worker should do if they have worries over recording, storing or…
1.1. Identify legislation and codes of practise that relates to handling information in social care settings…
The following are current legislation and codes of practice that relate to handling information in health and social care. They also summarise the main points of legal requirements for handling information.…
Assignment overview In this assignment, you will complete tasks to demonstrate your knowledge of the importance of effective communication in adult social care settings, and ways to overcome barriers to meet individual needs, wishes and preferences in communication. You will also address the principles and practices relating to confidentiality.…
To ensure that individuals are cared in health and social care is by applying the principles of support. Every Individuals confidentiality should be taken serious, this is very important in health and social care settings because it relates to personal information about patients. The purpose of a confidential care service is to protect the Patients information and restrict who can access it. The Data protection Act (1998) enforces service users information to be protected.…
Three core values that influence practice are confidentiality, respect and non-judgemental attitude. Miller describes confidentiality as ‘the idea of protecting information from misuse’ (2005:46) she then suggests information should only be passed on if necessary and the individual must be made aware that information can and will be passed on when necessary. Miller (2005) also states that confidentiality within social care refers to the organisation and not to the employee as an individual. She also discusses the strict guidelines of confidential information; confidential information gathered for one purpose should not be used for another, the consent of the individual should be given at all times other than in exceptional circumstances this must be made clear to the service user, access of information should be limited to the service user and departments of the organisation in which it concerns and information should not be discussed with other members. Having previous knowledge of a service user by either having dealt with them directly before or from information contained in previous casefiles and records can on occasion cause me to build an…
* A key value in the health and social care field is confidentiality. ‘Confidentiality’ refers to the appropriate protection of personal and private details about service users’ situation or…
This unit is aimed at those working in a wide range of settings. It covers the knowledge and skills needed to implement and promote good practice in recording, sharing, storing and accessing information. Learning Outcomes The learner will: 1 Understand requirements for handling information in health and social care settings Assessment Criteria The learner can: 1.1 Identify legislation and codes of practice that relate to handling information in health and social care 1.2 Summarise the main points of legal requirements and codes of practice for handling information in health and social care 2.1 Describe features of manual and electronic information storage systems that help ensure security 2.2 Demonstrate practices that ensure security when storing and accessing information 2.3 Maintain records that are up to date, complete, accurate and legible 3.1 Support others to understand the need for secure handling of information 3.2 Support others to understand and contribute to records Others may include: Colleagues Individuals accessing care or support Exemplification…
It is the duty of health and social care worker to know the full range of service users needs, including washing, bathing, getting service users in and out of bed, assistance to the toilet, household chores and tasks, making meals, shopping, or simply spending time with service users and offering a friendly chat to make their life more meaningful. Health and social care worker must make sure that the confidentiality of the service users are maintain at all time, their personal information must not be disclose to anyone except when their life is in danger.…
This introduction, which is also reproduced in the Code of Practice for Employers of Social Care Workers, is intended to help you understand what the codes are for and what they will mean to you as a social care worker, employer, service user or member of the public. The Code of Practice for Social Care Workers is a list of statements that describe the standards of professional conduct and practice required of social care workers as they go about their daily work. This is the first time that standards have been set in this way at national level, although many employers have similar standards in place at local level.…
To take the advantages of the categorization, we tend to search the color scheme that can divide different experience sharing. However, we cannot find any color scheme that can be totally match with each other and, at the same time, can represent the meaning of the sharing title. We eventually choose the latter to have a better present of various piece of sharing. What more is, we have took the initial idea of categorization into the color categorization also. It means we put things into a certain clear sequence, for example animals at first , then the plants then the laboratories stuff. But there have a head line and bottom line in different color tone to indicate that they are different section. For instance, they are in the sequence of animals but in the blue head and bottom line.…