Barriers and Disparities in Health Care NUR/550 June 8‚ 2012 Cynthia Holsen R.N. – C.W.H.N.P. Barriers and Disparities in Health Care Everyone should have the opportunity to achieve a healthy life and have comprehensive health care services available to them. To achieve this healthy life‚ people need to have access to the health care system and to a health care provider with whom they can develop a trusting relationship. However‚ existing barriers to attaining health care services often
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P1 Communication is about passing a message or information between people and organisations. Good communication skills is inessential to those who work within the Health and Social Care sectors ‚ as it allows them to develop a positive relationship‚ share‚ provide and receive information with service users‚ as well as their colleagues and other Health Care professionals. In order for communication to be effective‚ it has to have its context. Context is the situation in which communication can
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P2 Theories of communication -The communication cycle Effective communication involves a two-way process in which each person tries to understand the viewpoint of the other person." According to Argyle‚ skilled interpersonal interaction (social skills) involves a cycle in which you have to translate or ’decode’ what other people are communicating and constantly adapt your own. Communication is a cycle because when two people communicate they need to check that their ideas have been understood"
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a booklet outlining the CSP Journey values and the behaviors the company expected them to follow. The new values encourage individuals to be accountable for their actions. For example‚ previously‚ there had been tragic accidents on site and other health and safety issues‚ such as poor driving behaviour. This needed to change. The Journey program has taken a positive approach so that it now
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P4 - Explain possible priorities and responses when dealing with two particular incidents or emergencies in a health and social care setting. Fire‚ When you are working within a health and social care setting the most important thing is to evacuate the people that is in your care out of the building first. When you are working in an organisation you should always familiarise yourself with where the fire exits‚ fire alarms and fire extinguishers are located. If you are working within a care
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potential barriers to health care. We as nurses need to recognize what those barriers are by gaining the knowledge‚ skills and approaches so that it can be applied with any individual or group with a different culture background. American Indians and Alaska Natives face persistent disparities in health and health care‚ including high uninsured rates‚ significant barriers to obtaining needed care‚ and poor health status (2013). The most common standard applied for eligibility for health services from
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procedures relating to health‚ safety and security influence health and social care settings Health and safety at work act 1974 (HASAW) - This act provides general guidance about health and safety. The duty of the employer is to make sure health and safety of their employees and show that they have taken all attainable steps to do this. The employer should also give training and safety equipment‚ employers should carry out regular checks and improve and put in place a health and safety policy. If
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for giving care and fulfilling the needs of the person or persons they are visiting or whom are in the care home they work for.Residential therapists help to get people as mobile and independent as they can‚ also asses and implement any help or aid that the person may need.Health visitors can have a varied role from checking if mum and baby are doing well when returning from the hospital and checking on the elderly or any one no longer needing to stay in hospital but still needing some care if a wound
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Professional Health Care Communication HCS/350 June 27‚ 2011 Personal and Professional Health Care Communication "Health communication refers to health-related transactions between individuals who are attempting to maintain health and avoid illness" (Northouse & Northouse‚ 1998‚ p. 20). The effectiveness and therapeutic nature of communication between individuals in any health care relationship has a strong influence on the success of interpersonal relationships and health outcomes
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Identify two examples of legislation‚ policies or codes of practice and show how they have influenced social care provision Children Act 2004 What is the Child Act 2004 • It provides the legal basis for how social services and other agencies deal with issues relating to children. • The Children Act 2004 aims to further improve children’s lives by safeguarding them. • Guidelines have been laid down so that all individuals who are involved in the looking after of children‚ in the home‚ the work
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