...provided. Changing working practices, such as multi-disciplinary and multi-agency team work, and changes in the range of skills and competencies of other healthcare practitioners, present a number of opportunities as well as challenges in providing safe and effective care. Many of the issues are best resolved by clarity between consultants and their employing organisation about appropriate roles and responsibilities. Consultants should raise with their employing bodies any issues where ambiguity or uncertainty about responsibilities may arise. Consultants also need to be clear about the expectations of the GMC. All doctors are accountable to the GMC for their conduct and the decisions they take. Good medical practice (2013) sets out the principles which should underpin their professional work and against which their conduct may be judged. Good medical practice does not try to address, in detail, all the circumstances in which doctors may work. This guidance explains how the principles in Good medical practice apply for doctors working in multi-disciplinary or multi-agency mental health teams. 1. Doctors should be competent in all aspects of their work including: reviewing and auditing the standards of the care they provide; training...
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...Introduction The aim of this piece of work will be to describe, analyse and evaluate what role the staff nurse holds in the effective management of the care of the bereaved person. Throughout the author will relate this to the bereavement of a family following the death of a loved one in a care of the elderly setting. In relation to this assignment and because the focus of this assignment is on the staff nurse effectively managing the care of the bereaved person the author will focus on the issue of the importance of good leadership in supporting staff in what could be an emotionally challenging environment. In relation to supporting the staff nurse being able to provide effective care for the patient the author will also be considering the areas of teambuilding and staff development, training and support. It should be remembered that bereavement may occur not just after a death but after any form of loss. Loss is a normal part of everyday life, life involves change and changes often involve an element of loss, (Read, 2002). What is bereavement? Shakespeare once wrote “all that lives must die, passing through nature to eternity”. Death is one of the largest causes of bereavement, although not exclusively. Bereavement is the term used for the emotions and behaviours felt and displayed by a person who has suffered some form of loss, particularly the death of a person close to them or known to them, (Egan, 2003). Coping with bereavement Coping with the emotions...
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...an organisation that regulate midwives and nurses. According to the NMC Nursing and Midwife Council (2015) NMC regulate midwives and nurses across England. They set training, education and conducts for midwives and nurses to delivers high healthcare. They make sure that midwives and nurses uphold their knowledge and skills up to date. There are values and mission that matter for the NMC. Been accountable, acting in the importance of their patients to safety and give them effective care. They take responsibility for their action. Been fair, the NMC are consist in the way they deal with patients and families. They make sure to not discriminate patients and take opportunities to promote equality to everyone no matter where they...
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...regulations which integrate into working practice to protect the rights of clients and individuals. Training aim is to create safe environments. By introducing knowledge and understand of law. (Health and Safety). Deliver Company objective to minimise the complications of legal court cases. The compliance to the codes of conduct in my opinion results in the commitment of quality assurance standards of each organisation. Delivering good practice by approved training to all staff members relevant to working practice. Research indicates why ethical codes are important. Values and principles evaluate through collaborative working to set bench marks for human rights and minimum risks. David B Resnik (May 1st 2011). * unit 510 [Document Subtitle] Yvonne Lake Lead and Manage a Team within a Health and Social Care or Children and Young People’s Setting 1.1 Explain the features of effective team performance Social Care requires carefully appointed staff. A professional group of people that work together are called a team. Main aim to offer care focused service for the individual and families. The manager/team leader implements the role by developing ways to share the responsibility. Leadership roles share the accountability with all the team. Communication is the key to effective teamwork. Forward Planning meetings result in the successful pro-active approach. Implement and develop the roles. Discussion team members delegate action proposals for each...
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...| | |RECHG JOB DESCRIPTION | |Night Support Assistant | |SALARY BAND |D1 (D2 if lone working) plus 10% | |RESPONSIBLE TO |Night Services Supervisor | | |night allowance | | | | |EXPERIENCE PREFERRED | | |Experience of working with vulnerable client groups. | | |SUMMARY | |The Night Assistant will work across a defined geographical area assisting in the delivery of a high quality support & housing service to the | |clients | |To assist in the delivery of support and security to clients of our supported schemes. | |KEY TASKS | |Strategy and service...
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...Since the establishment of Intermountain Health Care, they have grown to become an internationally recognized system of 22 hospitals, a medical group with more than 185 physician clinics, and an affiliated health insurance company. They have been recognized for their achievements and innovations in the development of systems and management, in order to produce effectiveness and efficiency within the processes of healthcare through high quality services and minimisation of costs. Intermountain Health Care’s performance has proved to be advancing exponentially as of the mid 90s, due to clinical-improvement projects routinely showing significant cost savings. What is Intermountain Health Care’s approach to the management of health care delivery? Intermountain Health Care’s approach to the management of health care delivery focuses on quality improvement, where the concept of quality is associated with cost effectiveness or value. At IHC, quality can be defined as producing optimal results at the lowest possible cost. The strategic goals of the company reflect the elimination of quality waste, the identification of inappropriate variation in outcomes, and the achievement of high results with the reflection of low costs. As an example, goals outlined in the 2001 system for cardiovascular clinical program included the use of appropriate prescriptions of hospital discharge medications to patients. Through the precision of prescribing the most beneficial drugs, patients will not...
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...Governance In Healthcare Gap analysis between governance in Egypt and in UK Reham Mokhtar Rashwan MBChB, MScs ,CPHQ, LGBSS What is clinical governance? • “A framework through which NHS organisations are accountable for continually improving the QUALITY of their services and safeguarding high standards of care by creating an environment in which excellence in clinical care will flourish.” Corporate Governance Vs Clinical Governance: • It addresses those structures, systems and processes that assure the quality, accountability and proper management of an organisation's operation and delivery of service • It applies only to health and social care organisations, and only those aspects of such organisations that relate to the delivery of care to patients and their carers; Corporate Gov. • Term emerged to refer jointly to the corporate governance and clinical governance duties of healthcare organisations. Clinical Gov. Intergrated Gov. How it started? • Clinical governance became important in health care after the Bristol heart scandal in 1995, found the high mortality rate for pediatric cardiac surgery at the Bristol Royal Infirmary More and More suffering for lack of Governance!!! “Medical error is the third most UK: blunders Britain frequent cause of death in by after cancer 40,000 doctors killand heart a disease…….kills four times more yearall other types people than die from of accidents.” Sunday Times, 19 Dec 1999 WAY OUT !!! SO; ...
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...Critically review your own organisation’s Health and Safety Policy and procedures and make recommendations for improvements Organisations today widely regard their employees as their greatest assets, so it is no wonder that they are spending an increasing amount of their resources on ensuring that the workplace and work systems enable its staff to feel safe and secure; as management continues takes an active role in their wellbeing. Failure to ensure and provide a safe working environment can raise concerns in a variety of areas such as legal, financial and ethical issues. In the United Kingdom there are legislations in place designed to ensure that correct and appropriate systems of work, in regards to health and safety, exist within every organisation. Under the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 (HASWA), section 2, “It shall be the duty of every employer to ensure, so far as is reasonably practicable, the health, safety and welfare at work of all his employees.” This highlights the responsibility employers have in ensuring their employees are safe of chemical, physical and machinery hazards and risks. Hazards can be defined as something that can cause adverse effects, such as water on a staircase because of the possibility of you slipping on it and hurting yourself. A risk is the likelihood that a hazard will actually cause its adverse effects, together with a measure of the effect. Risks are usually expressed as facts with a quantifiable likelihood, such as “one in a...
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...applying in the BSc (Hons) in Mental Healthcare is to expand on my nursing knowledge, develop new skill, gaining knowledge of organisation, structure and process and also keen to keep up to date with technology that is fatal to the care I deliver to the service user (SU). By doing the BSc (Hons) it will gives me the opportunities to specialise in other areas provided by the organisation and enhance career opportunities. * What impact the professional development will have on the individual, the Service, the Charity and the Service Users INDIVIDUAL By doing this degree course it is a process of professional support and learning which enable me to develop knowledge. It will help advancing me in professional growth and current evidence based practice, for example working in a fast demanding environment will give me the willingness to take responsibility for the SU wellbeing, ability to work in a demanding and stressful environment and dealing with occasional aggression in a sensitive and effective way, I will be able to plan and deliver patient care within the health care team. Also I will use my communication and interpersonal skills to emphasize with SU and understand their problems; willingness to be adaptable, flexible and support SU’s to ensure that they have a good care delivery. I will monitor relevant research to improve quality of care and seek consultation when appropriate to enhance own practice. I will engages in and collaborate with other in the conducting...
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...competitors, government bodies, media, action groups and others factors as market, economy, social and industry trends, demographics and cultural factors, referred as operating business. So business environment is the set of external and internal factors which affects the activities of the organisation, the decisions of the business. Each organisation has an own environment. The environment of a business can be seen in two ways of factors (Kew and Stredwick, 2005): - Macro environment (general environment): concerns national culture (historical background, ideologies and values), scientific and technological developments, the level of education, legal and political processes, demographic factors, available resources, the international environment and the general economic, social and industrial structure of the country. - Micro environment (task environment): concerns the forces relevant to an individual organisation within an industry including customers, suppliers, competitors, regulators, the local labour market and specific technologies. The business environment is the climate in which the business methods, skills, attitudes and objectives are being increasingly adopted by these organisations. (Ian Worthington, 2003). To understand the organisational purposes of business, we have to study the environment of one company in particular. Anglo American is one of the world’s largest mining companies focusing on platinum group metals, diamonds, copper, nickel, iron ore,...
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...bankrupt then the shareholder’s personal assets cannot be seized to compensate, only the capital invested. Tesco’s operates in the tertiary sector. The tertiary sector is the sector, which deals mainly with the sale of products and services. Tesco offer many products and services, such as electronics, groceries, petrol and car insurance. Although these products and services often have the Tesco brand label on them, they do not produce them themselves. When it comes to cultivation and manufacturing, (primary & secondary), Tesco tend to outsource. Tesco is a Private for Profit business, but also a PLC. This means that Tesco is a Shareholder owned business that operates in the private sector of the market. The Private Sector consists of organisations that are owned and funded by individuals or groups of individuals. Tesco is a PLC because it has taken on investors. Tesco most likely needed more capital in order for the business to grow and expand. Investors who buy shares become shareholders and they jointly own the company. These investors receive dividends periodically, and the amount depends on the amount of shares owned. Dividends are returns made by shareholders, which are paid as a percentage of the...
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...“Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek Change management is one of the most keenly studied management disciplines today. Keeping in mind the fact that the organisations, which embrace change, are likely to be most successful one. For this reason, many firms and institutions are alert to the need of continually monitoring their structure and procedures with a view of improving them. This article focuses not only on the change but the whole process of change – starting from the introduction to the consolidation of change. Definitions of change: o As a society, we have been moving from old to the new. And we are still in motion. Caught between eras, we experience turbulence.' - JOHN NAISBETT Change is inevitable in the life of an organization. o According to Stephen P. Robbins- change is concerned with making things different. Things must be different because they change constantly. o Change can be defined as – when an organizational system is disturbed by some internal or external force, change frequently occurs. Change as a process, is simply modification of the structure or process of a system. It may be good or bad, the concept is descriptive only." Outside environment of the organization is ever changing, even socially and politically we are always on the move, looking for newer and better ways of doing things. The industrial revolution &...
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...Historically, The concept of account-giving has ancient roots in record keeping activities related to governance and money-lending systems that first developed in Ancient Egypt (Mahmud, 1997), Greece (Jennifer, 1982) and Rome (Joseph, 2001) later. In the centuries since the reign of William I of England, accountability has slowly wrestled free from its etymological bondage with accounting. In contemporary political discourse, ‘accountability’ and ‘accountable’ no longer convey a stuffy image of bookkeeping and financial administration, but they hold strong promises of fair and equitable governance. Moreover, the accounting relationship has almost completely reversed. Accountability does not refer to sovereigns holding their subjects to account,...
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...the needs of their organization. Traditionally, many organisations have been in the form of a Pyramid structure. Most responsibility lies at the top and there is more staff at the bottom with less responsibility. There is a hierarchy, and staffs know their position within the organisation. Hierarchies have tall and flat structure Tall organisation Tall organizational structure is one which has many levels of hierarchy. In these organizations, there are usually many managers, and each manager has a narrow span of control, they are in charge of only a small group of people. Tall structures tend to be more complicated and complex, and may be slower to respond to market changes than organizations where managers have a larger span of control. Employee satisfaction may be lower in a tall organization because of the many layers of bureaucracy and rigid rules. Tall organizations may face higher costs than in other types of business structures. One reason for this is the large number of managers and supervisors required in a tall structure. Advantages: There are various advantages of tall organizations. * Firstly, within tall organizational structure there is a close supervisory control because of the low span of managers. * Secondly, it is a more authoritative structure as a consequence; the roles and responsibilities are clearly defined. * Thirdly, in a tall structure the responsible person is other accountable to the higher authorities. * Fourthly, this structure...
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...Title: Personal and intimate care means crossing normal boundaries. What are the implications of this for users and workers in health and social care? Within health and social care crossing normal boundaries may sometimes be required. Firstly, this essay will explore some common dilemmas and difficulties within care settings, and then consider how this can lead to poor-quality and unsafe practice. “Often poor practice occurs in care situations that are challenging to the care worker, for example giving intimate care or dealing with challenging behaviour,” (unit 17, pp. 11-54). Secondly, using case studies I will define and compare the implications for both workers and service users, thus allowing for the evaluation of ways in which intimate care can be provided to promote wellbeing, making people feel comfortable and safe. Finally the importance of guidelines, protocols and accountability are discussed, therefore creating good practice and safeguarding both the worker and service user. Providing personal and intimate care often involves direct physical touch and nakedness and sometimes gives rise to emotional closeness. These are also characteristics of sexual relationships, so it is not surprising that the boundaries between care and sex become blurred (Twigg, 2006). Personal Care can be merely assisting to brush someone’s teeth or assisting with feeding; whereas intimate care is events that would usually be done in private without anyone else present. Social boundaries...
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