P3: explain patterns and trends of health and illness among different social groupings. Government findings According to the January 2007 report by the parliamentary office of science and technology why are some ethnic minority groups at more risk of ill health than others. Black and minority ethnic (BME) groups generally have worse health than the overall population‚ although some BME groups fare much worse than others do‚ and patterns vary from one health condition to the next. Evidence suggests
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Infection control The different routes‚ through which infection can get into the body‚ are: * You can get an infection through the respiratory tract and into the lung‚ by a cough‚ cold‚ influenza and any other common airborne infections that are contracted in this fashion. * You could get it through a cut or wound that has broken the skin‚ one of the main functions of the skin is to act as a barrier against any infection. Anything that penetrates the skin or for that matter the mucous membrane
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Quality of Care Quality of Care Within a health system‚ quality care involves providing patients with appropriate services and accurate evaluation through competence and compassion. Additionally‚ effective communication is essential for shared decision-making within a timely manner (Campbell‚ 2000). The purpose of this paper is to address the concept of adverse events and determine the relationship between patient satisfactions along with the quality of care. In most instances‚ patients and families
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A reflective account (II) During my role as health care assistant in the care home setting where I work I spent a considerable amount of time on a one to one basis as a key worker with a particular resident. For the purpose of this reflective account the resident shall be referred to as Mrs S. Mrs S had vascular dementia as her dementia progressed her challenging behaviours increased. Mrs S spent a great deal of her day walking around the care home. On good days this was not an issue. However
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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 and undertake all of my tasks for my service user to a high standard even down to their
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Abuse There are lots of 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
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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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drugs is interrelated with depressive disorders and chronically anxious individuals will often medicate themselves with such substances. (Reference: http://www.helpguide.org/articles/depression/teen-depression-signs-help.html ) Former residential care social worker‚ Melissa Chapman says‚ “Kids from either low socio-economic or middle-class backgrounds will be peer-pressured into binge-drinking and will be presented with drugs…often‚ if they have a depressive disorder they have a tendency to be less
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development | Infancy can count to 20 they know ABC and they watch TV and ask to go out‚ begin to pretend by acting out familiar activities. Responding‚ and making some kind of sound understands by people around him and copy mum and dads words. | Social development | From the birth infant knows people around him by how they treat him and infant making relationship between him and his parent ‚by age six laughing him and laugh his mother when she changing his nappies‚ the baby is discovering he is
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self-confidence would be affected because everyone surrounding the individual would know that the individual suffers from dementia. This would also affect their social life because no one would want to associate with someone who regularly forgets what is happening around them. If the individual is taken to a residential home it becomes easier for them because care workers would be helping the person to try and recollect their memories if they can. The self-esteem of an individual who is having difficulties in
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