Unit 504 Develop Health and

The main features of the Health and Safety at Work Act (1974) is that it requires certain health and safety procedures to be maintained in a health and social care setting, for example, the act explains that there must be, safe operation and maintenance of working equipment, plant and system, maintenance of safe access to the workplace, safe use, handling and storage of dangerous/hazardous substances, training of staff to ensure that there is health and safety, to provide welfare for staff at work.

It is my role to ensure that we have sufficient staff on daily basis in order to meet the relevant staff/child ratios. Any over staffing we have should be utilised in an appropriate manner, for example the other day we had some children not come in due to illness so I decided to take some paperwork and sit to one side and update it. I was still in the room should the staff need me.

Describe how current health and safety legislation, policies and procedures are implemented in the setting.

Legislations/codes of practice relating to general health and safety in a health or social care work setting are: The Health and Safety at Work Act 1974; Riddor 1995, COSHH (Control of Substances Hazardous to Health); Manual Handling operations regulations 1992; Health And Safety (First aid regulations 1981); Fire protection (Workplace) Regulations 1997; Food Safety Act 1990; Personal Protective Equipment and Management of Health and safety at work regulations 1999.

The Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 is the primary piece of legislation covering work-related health and safety. It sets out a lot of your employer’s responsibilities for your health and safety at work.

Outcome based practice refers to the actual impacts, effects and or end results of services / interventions on an individual’s life. Its effectiveness is not measured by numbers/figures or financial strategies it is measured by the positive outcome that is achieved. It isn’t about what is required to be done but what is actually achieved as the result that matters.

1. Identify legislation relating to general health and safety in a health or social care work setting.

Outcome based care is about putting the customer at the centre of the care service and not prescribing a one size fits all policy. Care should always be bespoke to the customer taking into account their needs and choices. Care should allow the customer to live a fulfilled life, help them identify and achieve the things they would like to do. Outcome based care requires careful planning with full involvement from the customer their relatives should they wish and other health care professionals if required. Teamwork and communication is essential to ensure continuous quality improvement, and process and

It is important to ensure that the young people and staff are all safeguarded. Any staff that will be using physical interventions should have attended the mandatory training, risk assessments should be in

As a shift leader it is important to arrive early for shift as this is part of professionalism and it is also important not to miss hand over because this might lead to missing of service users vital care information. Using verbal and hand over notes is part of interprofessional communication. Handover promote the continuous flow of shift and it promote service users and staff safety. For example, the staff just arriving on shift needs to know what happens during the last shift such as change in condition of service users, if there is any medication changes, appointment and any important task that needs to be carried out during the shift. Communication is one of the ‘6 Cs’ of nursing, which is necessary to promote service users’ safety and quality care. The National

“Historically, nurses have provided patient information to the oncoming nursing staff to ensure the continuity of care (Chaboyer et al., 2009)” (Maxson, Derby, Wrobleski, & Foss, 2012, p.140). In that era of nursing, shift report also consisted of audio tapes, written reports, and the nurse in charge informing the oncoming nursing staff of their patient assignments. Shift report has

professionals any changes to residents care needs I monitor the effectiveness by ensuring that information

During your orientation whoever is orientating, you will show you what things need to be done and how they are done properly. After your shifts of orientation is over, it is time for you to start on your own. You must make sure that you know what you are doing. If you are unaware of what you should be doing or need help doing something, ask for help from co-workers. Your co-workers are there to help you and the residents be safe.

During the first few weeks as manager I instigated a range of methods to give residents more inclusion in their care support, I used knowledge from experienced staff and families to individualise general home communication for each resident. These included 1:1 communication support, signs and symbols and pictures. I read through the staff files and met on an individual basis with each staff member to build up a full picture of their needs and ability’s, as each staff member also has their own way of communicating with each other and residents.

1.) Introduce the nursing staff to the patient and family. Invite the patient and family to take part in the bedside shift report.