DUTYOFCARERELATESTODUTYOFCANDOUR. In a care environment‚ duty of care is a legal responsibility that makes sure what you do as a part of your role does not interfere with those you support. This requires you to ensure the safety of the service users by eliminating the risk of abuse‚harm and neglect. In a work setting it is significant to have relevant training‚ for example‚ (Basic life support and first aid). This promotes good quality of care to the individuals and reduces the risk of their health and wellbeing. Another
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NVQ-3 In Health and Social Care By Reflective Account Mandatory Unit (Unit HSC33 A & B) Reflect on and develop your practice Sometime I also come across patients with challenging behaviour. Once I had a patient admitted on my ward named Mr F with challenging behaviour and communication was a problem. Understanding his request I found it very difficult‚ because the communication skills were very limited by the patient. One occasion
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Abuse Physical Abuse What is physical abuse? Physical abuse is any abuse involving the use of force‚ this can be: Punching‚ hitting‚ slapping‚ pinching‚ kicking‚ in fact any form of physical attack Burning or scalding Restraint such as tying up or tying people to beds or furniture Refusal to allow access to toilet facilities Deliberate starvation or force feeding Leaving the individuals in wet or soiled clothing or bedding as a deliberate act to demonstrate power and strength of the abuser
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UNIT 8 PROMOTE AND IMPLEMENT HEALTH & SAFETY IN HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE 1‚ Understand own responsibilities‚ and the responsibilities of others‚ relating to health & safety 1.1 Identify legislation relating to health and safety in a health and social care setting. Listed below is some of the legislation realating to health or social care work enviroment. Health and Safety at work Act 1974 Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulation 1999 Health and Safety (First Aid) Regulation
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include personal care‚ nutritional needs‚ pressure area care‚ mobility and daily living. I always treat clients with the dignity and respect that I would expect. Service users are offered choices e.g. In what they would like to wear or what time they would wish to get up. Staff work and communicate closely with nurses in ensuring all service users needs are met which are individual to them. Part of my daily duties includes completing daily records on all service users that I care for. I ensure that
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HSC025 & CU308P – Promote and implement health and safety in health and social care. 1.1 Health and safety work act‚ the health and safety work act was put in place to ensure all employers are keeping their employees safe whilst at work (within reasonably practical) they will be looking after their health and safety. For example ensuring they are capable of completing a task whilst at work using the right equipment to help them for example a hoist. Manual handling operations regulations‚ the manual
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Rights of a service user at the Sutton Primary Care Trust. Name: Service: Provider: Date 15th June 2013 BTEC Level 2 Extended Certificate in Health and Social Care ------------------------------------------------- Assessor: Kofi Freeman Amponsa-Dadzie Contents Rights Welfare Equality Act Data Protection Act Age Discrimination Sexual Orientation Religious Beliefs Privacy Respect and Dignity People who come to the Sutton Primary Care Trust use our services on a day to day basis
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Unit 2 – Individual Rights in Health and social Care Diversity and equality in society Diversity and equality in our society is based upon community that consist of people from different background. There are many factor that contribute to the diversity and equality of the mainly social mainly * Social * Political * Equality * Biological Social Factors Social factors emphasises values that families hold function together every day. The values are based on their cultural
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Duty of Care To meet my Duty of Care it is my responsibility to - ( Keep my knowledge and skills up to date ( Provide a quality service based on my skills‚ responsibilities and activities within my job role ( Be in a position to know what must be done to ensure that the service is provided safely ( Keep accurate records of my work‚ both in the patients notes‚ on the computer and in my work diary. ( Not to delegate work‚ or accept delegated work unless I feel I am competent to do the
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Unit SHC 21 – Introduction to communicating in Health‚ Social Care or Childrens and Young Peoples settings. Understand why communication is important in the work setting. 1.1 People communicate to express needs and feelings‚ to ask questions‚ to build relationships‚ socialize and share experiences. 1.2 Effective communication effects all aspects of my own work‚supports the development of my own knowledge and skills‚ prevents misunderstanding‚ helps to build trust and supports the development
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