...Case study: When radiation therapy kills When new expensive medical therapies come along, promising to cure people of illness, one would think that the manufacturers, doctors,and technicians, along with the hospitals and state oversight agencies, would take extreme caution in their application and use. Often this is not the case. Contemporary radiation therapy offers a good example of society failing to anticipate and control the negative impacts of a technology powerful enough to kill people. For individuals and their families suffering through a battle with cancer, technical advancements in radiation treatment represent hope and a chance for a healthy, cancer-free life. But when these highly complex machines used to treat cancers go awry or when nedical technicians and doctors fail to follow proper safety procedures, it results in suffering worse than ailments radication aims to cure. A litany of horror stories underscore the consequences when hospitals fail to provide safe radiation treatment to cancer patients. In many of these horror stories, poor software design, poor human-machine interfaces and lack of proper training are root causes of the problems. The deaths of Scott Jerome-Parks and Alexandra Jn-Charles, both patients of New york City hospitals, are prime examples of radiation treatments going awry. Jerome-Parks worked in southern Manhattan near the side of the World Trade Center attacks, and suspected that the tongue cancer he developed later was related to...
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...P1: explain the role of effective communication and interpersonal interaction in health and social care context Training manual for effective communication and interpersonal interaction in a school Page | Content | 1 | Introduction | 2-4 | Different contexts used to communicate effectively in health and social care | 5 | Different types of communication used in health and social. | 6 | Different type of interpersonal interactions | 7-8 | Different communication and language needs and preferences | 1 Introduction: Communication is really important in a school setting. This is due to communication helping individuals build better relationships with students and also help understand how the other person is capable of learning. Communication with others will vary depending on who you are talking to and the situation you maybe in. For example, communication amongst friends is more likely to be relaxed and informal; however in a health and social care setting such as a school, you would be professional and very formal between a teacher and a teacher assistant. Furthermore according to the care value base which are a range of standards for health and social care which is designed to guide professional’s practices in this area. Different types of contexts that can be used to communicate effectively in a school environment. 2 Informal context: Informal communication can be used between individual who know each other well and have a good relationship. An example...
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...Question 1 (This question provides evidence for grading criterion 1.1) Give detail of the various elements of the marketing process. Answer 1: The very first thing that must be done regarding any new marketing endeavor is to perform a Marketing Audit, in order to obtain clear understanding of the current position of the business and what needs to be done in order to achieve certain marketing objectives. A Marketing Audit can be done effectively using the following steps, we will be applying these steps to our given scenario; The umbrella factory, and since no name was given in the scenario, we shall name it: Rain&Sun. 'R&S' for short. • Assemble an overview of R&S: We already know that R&S is a newly-found company, therefore no marketing actions were taken before reaching out to Global Marketing LTD, this allows us to innovate new marketing campaigns in a fresh way totally controlled by Global Marketing LTD. We also know the production capacity of R&S, 200 umbrellas/day current, 700 umbrellas/day maximum. We are aware that the umbrellas can be manufactured in any color or design, which is very important to produce visually attractive product. • Describe the marketing goals and objectives of R&S: These objectives must be set in accordance with the vision and objectives of the management team at R&S, in our given scenario, R&S aims to have a sizeable piece of the market within one year, another way of stating the parameters of success is to achieve a sales rate of...
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