Amy Lockett Unit 4229 208- Understand health and safety in social care settings Task A plan Ai) A description of four different examples of accidents and/or sudden illnesses that might occur Stroke- where arteries that connect to the brain become blocked resulting in reduced blood flow‚ these blockages are usually caused by blood clots. Falls- They may fall due to a slip. Asthma attack- This is when an individual suffers shortening of breath due to the tightening of muscles around the airways. Heart
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Unit 5 Principles of Safeguarding and Protection in health and social care 1.1‚ 1.2 Physical Abuse Physical abuse is abuse involving contact intended to cause feelings of intimidation‚ pain‚ injury‚ or other physical suffering or bodily harm.. Physical abuse includes... * Hitting / slapping / kicking * Pushing * Pinching * Force feeding * Burning / scalding * Misuse of medication or restraint * Catheterisation for the convenience of staff * Refusing access to
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Unit 208 Outcome 1 1.1 list legislation relating to general health and safety in a social care setting. Manual handling operations regulations 1992 (as amended in 2002); Control of substances hazardous to health regulations 2002 (COSHH) Reporting injuries‚ Diseases and dangerous occurrences regulations 1995 (RIDDOR) Health and safety first aid regulations 1981 Management of health and safety at work regulations 1999 1.2 describe the main points of health and safety policies and procedures
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recruit and select a CEO in the set-up and growth phase of the business cycle within Shanghai in February 2013. Firstly‚ this essay will argue whether the Human Resource Department of Samsung will adopt an ethnocentric‚ polycentric‚ regiocentric or geocentric recruitment and selection strategy. Secondly‚ this essay will outline the selection criteria for determining as who will be selected for the new CEO position within Shanghai. Thirdly‚ this essay will propose the leadership style and traits
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Level 3 Diploma Health & Social care‚ Unit 2 1.1(Q) Describe the duties and responsibilities of own work role: I have worked for Choice support for six years. I work in a homeless hostel which offers tenancy support along with signposting ‚for residents to gain more indepth support. Westview House cater for twenty nine residents around substance misuse‚ mental health and other issues they may be experiencing. My current role as project
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Introduction Throughout this assignment I am going to be looking into the health and social topic of communicable and non-communicable diseases. I will be investigating into various aspects of two specific diseases. A high level of knowledge will be demonstrated with a detailed description of both communicable and non-communicable diseases as well as an understanding of epidemiology. I will then find a communicable and non-communicable disease example and describe the biological basis of each disease
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Unit 3- health and wellbeing Definitions: Health and wellbeing meanings come in three forms-holistic‚ positive and negative. Health and wellbeing’s meaning cannot be fixed because health means different things to different people‚ and your intellectual thinking of health can change from day to day; depending on your experiences you go through. Literally the word health comes from an old English word meaning “the state of being hale‚ sound or whole‚ in body mind or soul”. This tells us that our
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Understanding employment responsibilities and rights in health and social care settings. 1.1 List the aspects of employment covered by law. The law in the uk covers the following aspects: minimum wage‚ hours worked‚ sick pay‚ coshh‚ riddor‚ discrimination‚ health and safety‚ holiday entitlements and pay‚ redundancy and dismissal‚ training‚ disciplinary procedures and union rights.1.2 List the main features of current employment legislations. Equalities‚ (The Equality act 2010) equal opportunities
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Unit 8 Psychological Perspectives P1‚ P2‚ P3 (A) Behaviorist Theory According to Crittenden‚ behavior is learnt through seeing what someone else does. This can be explained further through the experiment of classical conditioning. Classical Conditioning was developed by Ivan Pavlov. Pavlov used the experiment of dogs and food so as to measure the levels of salivation that a dog produced when food had been associated with the assistant. He developed this experiment when he noticed that
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Unit 11 Safeguarding. P1) Describe forms of abuse which may be experienced by adults. Physical Abuse - Is a form of abuse which may be violent towards another person who this person may be vulnerable and might not be able to protect themselves. Examples of this may be; cuts‚ bruises‚ and possible broken bones. The long term effects that physical abuse could have are mental illness‚ scared of people coming near them‚ loose self-esteem and confidence‚ and may become vulnerable. Sexual Abuse-
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