Paper #2 Jennifer M. Smith Dr. Robert Lindsey Health Service Organization February 17‚ 2013 1. Compare the three (3) main types of health insurance in the U.S. and assess the solvency of each. Make a prediction regarding the longevity of each type over the next 30 years. Indemnity or fee-for-service plans‚ Health maintenance organizations (HMOhmo)‚ and Preferred provider organizations (ppoPPO) are three types of health insurance in the U.S. According to (Williams and
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Vincent Mazzaro One of the most controversial subjects in the news today is health care. The problem is not that the doctors can’t cure all of their patients‚ but it’s about how costly it is to cure all of these patients. The cost of helping these patients is paid for through Obama’s new national health care‚ which people’s taxes pay for. However‚ these taxes are sometimes not afforded by a certain majority of people. This makes matters even worse because all the procedures performed on these
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Cambridge TECHNICALS OCR LEVEL 3 CAMBRIDGE TECHNICAL CERTIFICATE/DIPLOMA IN HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE SUPPORT USE OF MEDICATION IN SOCIAL CARE SETTINGS M/505/7779 LEVEL 3 UNIT 33 GUIDED LEARNING HOURS: 90 UNIT CREDIT VALUE: 15 PROMOTE POSITIVE BEHAVIOUR OF MEDICATION IN SOCIAL CARE SETTINGS M/505/7779 LEVEL 3 UNIT 33 AIM AND PURPOSE OF THE UNIT In the social care sector practitioners are often responsible for supporting service users with their medication. This support can take a variety of forms
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different types of abuse which could occur in many health and social care work places. The department of health state the definition of abuse is that it is a violation of a person’s human and civil rights by any other person or people. There have been media reports which indicate that abuse is a big issue occurring in care places such as homes which include people with disabilities. Examples of care homes which have been in the media are Long care Stoke Place‚ Winterbourne View and Stafford Hospital
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break down foods like starchy foods. The second stage is swallowing‚ for this process our tongue helps us to push what we eat to the back of the throat where special muscles are located which force the food down a tube called the oesophagus to our stomachs. Whilst this is happening a flap called epiglottis separates from our windpipe to make sure food doesn’t go down the wrong way. Muscular System Within our body there is 3 different types of muscles‚ these are smooth muscles‚ cardiac
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giving a couple of examples that could be used within the Care Home environment. There are 6 main forms of communication that I will explain and give examples of. Electronic communication:- Telephone –Definition: A telephone is a system used to send speech over distances. So you can talk to someone in Japan while in England using a telephone which works as a transmitter and a receiver. There are many ways you could use a telephone in the care home‚ e.g. as one of the elderly people could be ill one
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regular talk sessions. I made this decision based on the major health factors involved‚ this person not sleeping or eating are signs of a deep depression that anti depressants may only slightly mask. I made the decision to prescribe this with the condition that the patient return for. Talk sessions because I think it is important to monitor anyone on new medication and also it is important to make sure the patient does not lose sight of what happened
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Principles for Implementing Duty of Care OUTCOME 1 1.1 Explain what it means to have a duty of care in own work role Duty of care in my own work place means that I have a legal responsibility to care for each service user and to give them the necessary support required within the law. All service users should be treated as individuals regardless of their gender‚ sexuality‚ religion or ethnic background. They should be supported and encouraged to enter into the working environment which
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handle CU2470 Handle information in health and social care settings 1.1 The data protection act is the policy which is in place in any care setting for recording‚ storing and sharing information; it’s to protect people and their rights and gives them so privacy when personal data is being processed and it also gives individuals the right to control what information they want people to know about themselves. 1.2 It is important to have a system that is secure for recording‚ storing
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this helps keep children and young people safe as if a child had been taken out of their home for their safety and moved out of the area to a new foster family or children’s home then this information should be hidden from their family so there is no way that they would be able to snatch the child back. Confidentiality is paramount and keeping information of children who are in danger safe from just anyone looking at it is very important‚ as if this information got out people in the public they then
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