1.3 Current legislation and policies and changes to personal values can impact on work in health and social care. New legislation Criminal Record Bureau (CRB,) under the Care Standard Act. 2000 (CSA), now put in place to stop abusive workers from working with vulnerable service users, Can not allowed to any personal duties. The Health and safety at Work Act (1974 is a legislation that covers occupations, health and safety in work in the UK. The Health and Social Care Act. (2012), is to bring the NHS to the 21st century to meet the challenge facing it and safeguarding its future. Help professionals at the centre of commissioning. Data Protection Act, 1998. Deals with both personal information …show more content…
They are protected by the Public Interest Disclosure, Act,(1998). LO3 Understand the application of principles of professional engagement with service users of health and social care services. 3.1 Explaining the nature of different types professional relationships that exist in a multidisciplinary team in health and social care contexts. There are many professions in healthcare sector. There are doctors, nurses, speech therapists, interpreter, receptionists, care assistants, dietitian, line managers, chiropodist and managers. All these teams work together to meet the required needs of the service users in collaboration with each other. They also have their different roles to play in the multidisciplinary (MDT). I work as Care Assistant in care home. My duties are to get the service users up and ready for breakfast, make their beds, take those who need to see the doctor, speech therapist and others. Each of these professionals have their roles to play to ensure the smooth running of the care home. The families also play vital role in helping to settle any fear the service users have with their care plans.Staff should empower service users. The rights of care workers and service users is always there which has cause a dilemma in a care settings. Care workers should be supported when dilemmas raise their ugly heads. We should all work to together to accomplish a common
Simple changes as everyone using the same mugs and staff having drinks at the same time as people who use the service.
Staff working in partnership with a service user’s family will become more aware of families' individual needs, and know more about an elderly person's home context, thus enabling them to be aware of how the care home is different or similar to their own home and understand the elderly person’s behaviour with this in mind.
A. There are many potential barriers to communication such as language barriers, it can be hard to communicate with someone who does not understand your language or vice versa. Also cultural differences may be a problem as different communication aids such as touching, eye contact, or tone, which may be acceptable in one culture may not be
Some health care professional who are not committed to the care value base may treat service users unfairly. For example, a care worker that is not demonstrating the role of empathy may not want to listen or respect the ideals of the service users because the care worker is not in their position and do not see things from service users point of view. It is important for health care professionals to be committed and being honest with themselves in order to make sure that they are providing equal care to their service users. Careful use of language
Risk assessment- An assessment of any risks to the worker's health and safety is undertaken by a trained risk assessor. This allows for the risks to be removes, reduced or avoided, and for preventive and protective measures to be identifies and
The Data Protection Act 1998 is a piece of legislation which defines the law on processing data of people living within the United Kingdom.
Over the year both positive and negative influences have influenced my learning. The skill I have developed for learning is my aspiration is to become a midwife, this influences my learning in the way that it gives me the hunger to learn new things and improve my knowledge and grades. By improving my knowledge I will be able to go onto the next stage of my development. I believe that if I did not have such a desire to be a midwife, it would affect my learning by creating a mental blockage which would stop my ability to take things in and learn as I would become lazy and not interested from the lack of direction in my life. As soon as I realised what I wanted to do as a career, it really highlighted my priorities and I found that I have
Different people look at health in different ways. It can depend on their culture, environment, religion or age group. In order to have a clear understanding about how the people look at health, I have conducted a survey from a random sample of people who belongs to the above groups (e.g. people of different ages have been chosen).
Health Promotion This is the process of allowing people to have more control over their health as this will help improve their health and well-being. It focuses on individual behaviour towards a wide range of social and interventions. Health promotion is how health is shown for example to challenge obesity change 4 life is used so people can have a guidance on how to make their lifestyle healthier. It also shows that health promotion is aimed at individuals whose health is at risk from any diseases from lifestyle factors, which lets individuals take control over their health. By being able to have control over their health it shows individuals what may have happened if nothing was done of it
When an individual is referred to as having a deficiency, it means that there is the absence of a particular nutrient in the body. This could be due to the lack of that nutrient being provided though the diet or could be due to a
As people get older they lose independence, they become less mobile and aren’t able to do everything for themselves any more. It is important to ensure that they keep as active as they can to ensure they keep their independence for longer.
P1 – Explain potential hazards and the harm that may arise from each in a health and social care setting.
A list of the key legislation relating to health and safety in a social care setting-
1. Identify legislation relating to general health and safety in a health or social care work setting.
Honesty is something I value in another person, and I have struggled with service users who haven’t been honest about something. I have tried hard to understand the reasons why someone would not be honest with me. Usually after I have spoken to another member of staff, and heard their input and theories I can begin to see why and move on from the incident.