I believe promoting and providing DIPPS is important in everything we do. I am working within a retirement home and the job of the health professionals is to provide a safe and comfortable environment where we try to help maintain their independence while allowing them to live a life as close to their original state. A lot of the residents who reside in this home is accompanied by some form a dementia, schizophrenia, frail bones, communication impairments, physical issues and sometimes it may be hard to complete daily tasks such as, eating, sleeping peacefully and maintaining the safety in the environment. As health care professionals working with individuals whose behaviour may never be certain, we try to work our way around
The NHS define self-esteem as being the opinion each individual has of themselves. NHS, (2015). It is the self-image and self –respect of an individual’s perception of themselves. Roshahl.c, (2008). This assignment is going to discuss the six factors that affect self-esteem. These factors are the growth promoting climate, the looking glass self, self-actualisation, ego identity, social identity and finally, the constructing of self-concept. Maslow stated that people are motivated to achieve certain needs. When one need is fulfilled a person seeks to fulfil the
Unit 646 was dispatched to 5th Avenue Inn and Suites to a 4-year-old male who had a seizure witnessed by his parents approximately 10 minutes prior to the team’s arrival. Upon arrival to the scene, the family and child were outside and were all taken into the ambulance. The child was alert and oriented. The father stated, “We came here for his seizures and we have an appointment tomorrow at Mayo.” In addition, the parents stated that he vomited in their hotel room before the seizure and is taking Tegretol, and was currently acting as his normal self.
I was wondering if you could contact the residents in 1103 about their two dogs barking?
M3: Discuss the care strategies that can be used to support individuals with each physiological disorder.
A resident's name or conditions cannot be discussed with anyone other than the care team. Photos and other personal information can't be shared on social media sites and to maintain privacy and emails containing a resident's personal should not be sent because there is a possibility the email will be sent to the wrong person or someone may have access to your account. Information regarding a resident should only be discussed in person to ensure that only the necessary personnel know. When seeing a resident in public, you should not mention knowing them from a care facility in case they wish to keep that a secret from the person they may be with.
A baby- A baby is sitting on a high chair in a restaurant. He is pulling his bib and at the same time he is looking at his mom. He has his mouth opened as if trying to take the bib out and eat it. He does this for a few minutes and then screams loudly. All the people in the restaurant look at the baby. The baby without worrying continues pulling his bib again. His mom laughs and says sorry to
There are many things which can affect access to complementary therapies. The ones I will be explaining are:
When we are communicating verbally with a client we have to remain polite, calm and focused, this is so messages don’t get misinterpreted and the progress of the conversation will be successful.
In this essay I will be analysing the communication and interpersonal interaction that took place in various sectors such one to one interaction, group interaction and how effective these skills and other elements in the health and social care setting such as the environment was being demonstrated.
Reporting of Injuries,Diseases and dangerous occurrences regulations of 1995 requires the reporting of work-related accidents, diseases and dangerous occurrences. The Act applies to all work related activities, but not to all work related incidents. The objective of the regulations is to enable the enforcing authorities to identify where and how risks arise and to investigate serious accidents so as to prevent them from occurring in the future and thus providing a safer work environment. The enforcing authorities can then help and advise you on preventive action to reduce injury, ill health and accidental loss,the main points of our own policy that relate to this are:
No Secrets – Guidance published by the Department of Health, builds upon the governments respects for human rights and highlights the need to protect vulnerable adults through effective multi-agency work.
A health service is a service that provides care and is under the NHS. For examples hospitals or a G.P. They provide treatments but also prevent illnesses through health promotions. A social care service is about providing support to individuals to help them get by and who ever needs it such as emotional support or practical support with daily living tasks.
M1- Discuss how policies and procedures help children, young people and their families whilst the child is being looked after.
Dignity is the state or quality of being worthy of honour or respect. If you talk about someone’s condition and joke about it then you are not giving them dignity. Treat everyone as a unique person. If you laugh or joke around about their condition to their face tor ridicule them this is not giving them the dignity they deserve. Some people if they are being cared for may feel like they are losing dignity as they cannot dress or clean themselves. Some nurses make fun of the patient. This can lead to them losing confidence. If someone does lose confidence then you should still respect them and treat them with dignity. Some people might get angry if they have someone else washing them as it could be seen as
Health and social care organisations increasingly need to work together in partnership to get better value from the available resources and improve services and outcomes for service users, by improving quality of support for service users. Good relationships between partners, a common vision and understanding of expected achievements and what outcomes need to be delivered are critical to the success of partnerships. This will enable a more responsive service, which is well co-ordinated approach to the service delivery, and better value for money by ensuring reduced duplication of services.