Describe how incorrect handling and moving techniques can damage the skin. Identify a range of interventions that can reduce the risk of skin breakdown and pressure sores. Describe the changes to an individual skin conditions that should be reported. It is important to avoid or prevent the vulnerable areas or where sores has already formed. Regularly changing position or moving helps to prevent pressure sores developing in a vulnerable areas or to relieve already existing ones.
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Health & Social Care NVQs Legislation England Legislation Information (England) Introduction In this document you will find an overview of some of the Government Policy and legislation which has an impact on workers in health and social care settings. You will be able to identify the legislation that most affects the work you do‚ and will have a broad understanding of the International‚ European and UK Government policy that has an impact upon the way we must work. Plans for genuine partnership
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What external factors influenced my decision-making and actions? What sources of knowledge did or should have influenced my decision making and actions? Alternative strategies Could I have dealt better with the situation? What other choices did I have? What would be the consequences of these other choices? Learning How can I make sense of this experience in light of past experience and future practice? How do I NOW feel about this experience? Have I taken effective action to support
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B-TEC Health and Social Care Level 3 Year One. Unit 1 – Developing Effective Communication in Health and Social Care Unit Booklet 2011-2012 Student Name:______________________________ Please Note: You must keep this booklet safe. It is a requirement that‚ at the end of the unit‚ you will submit this booklet as evidence of your learning. A second copy of this booklet will not be given so if you lose it you must reprint it at your own expense and
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Kadian Igbinosun Unit 4 P1-Describe physical‚ intellectual‚ emotional and social development for each of the life stages of an individual In this assignment I am going to identify also describe the physical‚ intellectual and social development for each of the life stages of an individual. Conception A human life starts with conception. Women that are fertile usually produces one egg each month‚round about two weeks after a women has had her period. The egg cell usually
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Serious care reviews / safe guarding adults Winterbourne view in Bristol summerset abused and neglected vulnerable adults and people with learning difficulties which brought the care home to be investigated. The serious case review says the care home owners put profits before standards. The care staff at the care home bullied and assaulted residents on a daily basis leading to 13 of them being suspended. Three men and one woman had been arrested the police said. A undercover reporter recorded
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IT 4222-202 Outcome 1: Understand what is required for competence in own work role As I am a care assistant my duties and responsibility in my role are • Making sure I arrive on time for my service user • Assisting out of bed‚ getting washed/ showered dressed and is ready for the day • Preparing service users food whether its breakfast diner tea or super • Administering there medication • Prompting their medication • Making sure they have their fluids I set my standards very high
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themselves to other organisms. * Aids/HIV. * Chicken Pox. * Colds/Flu. | Fungi | | * Plants. * Contains chitis instead of cellulose. * Used for food production. | * In penicillin. * Thrush. * Athletes Foot. | Parasites | | * Micro-organisms that depend on other organisms to survive. | * Diarrhoea. * Vomiting. * Dehydration. | Infection is a noun used to describe the invasion of multiple microorganisms in a bodily part or tissue. This may cause a disease or illness through the diversion
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trends of health and ill health among different social groupings. I will talk about each pattern and trend in its own paragraph‚ Social class‚ Gender‚ Ethnicity‚ Age and Geographical location. I will talk about the links between these to health issues. I will back these up through the use of evidence such as statistics. I will then conclude what I have found out. Firstly I will talk about each pattern and trend. Social Class Social class helps to deter the reasons for individual’s health and ill
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COMMUNICATING IN HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE ORGANISATIONS Scenario You have been asked to create an information pack for health and social care students about the importance of communication in working with adults. Your pack should include information about a range of communication methods‚ both verbal and non-verbal. It should also include advice about how to identify the different communication needs of individual‚ some of the barriers to effective communication and how these can be overcome.
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