....2 Identify ways of working that can help improve partnership working. Improving partnership working can be done in many ways and there are many different methods of doing it. One way could be to give honest and unbiased information and opinions to the people you work with to help build a strong bond of trust and encourage people to act in the same manner toward you as you do to them. Identifying strengths and weaknesses of individuals is also key to improving partnerships, as it can create an opportunity for everyone to learn, and to provide the best possible care for the service user. You can improve partnership working by attending training sessions and knowing your own roles and responsibilities, and having everyone know the policies and procedures. Also having good communication between everyone involved can make working with a partner much easier and more efficient. 3.3 Identify skills and approaches needed for resolving conflicts. Compromising with a difficult individual is very important, as if a conflict seems one sided it will only anger or agitate the conflicted individuals further. Understanding each others roles can also help diffuse tension by having individuals concentrate on their roles rather than the other person, as well as trying to understand the individuals problems, it could be as simple as turning the channel over, but even if it isn’t, identifying why a conflict has occurred is a very good step towards resolving it, and understanding that problem...
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...characteristics are inferior then others. Gender: at birth we are classified as either male or female. Historically it was seen men were more important and had more rights than women however now into day’s society women and men have the same balance of equal. For instance men now participate in child caring and women’s choice of working as a mechanic has become popular. However there are still assumptions made about some ones gender that can lead to discrimination. Social class: social class is to do with the status that an individual has in society. This is based on, wealth and lifestyle. The British class system is divided into three layers; working class, middle class and upper class. The higher up the class you are the more power and influence you have on others. Social class affects health and well-being as a person in a lower class because you’re less likely to have the same opportunities in life as those in a higher class, as they have a poorer employment prospects and lower income. Family structure: A family is social group made up of people who are related to each other by birth. Being part of a family shows others that those people are connected in some way. We can classify four different types of family: • Extended family ( a family which extends beyond the nuclear family to include grandparents and other relatives) • Nuclear family ( a married couple with their two children) • Lone parent family ( is a single parent with their children) • Reconstituted family (also...
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...1) What do you know about patterns of health in the UK? Is health getting better or worse? | | | | | | 2) What factors can have an impact on patterns of health in the UK? |There are many factors contributed to affect the patterns of health in the UK such as: | |Diet: A Bad diet can lead a person to get many different kind of dieses and illnesses for example a person who eats food with high content of sugar he has a risk of| |developing a disease such as diabetes. Eating too much and not how much you need can lead a person to become overweight which itself increases your risk of getting | |heart disease, high blood pressure, diabetes etc and if a person eats too much animal fat, smokes and drinks alcohol and does no exercise can multiply their chances| |of getting a disease even more. ...
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...of health and social care services. Its guide is to provide comments and recommendations on a draft service framework document commissioned by the department of health, social services and public safety on the health and wellbeing of older people. For older people, independence is about choice and control. They value helping others as well as receiving help themselves. They also value good housing in safe, friendly neighbourhoods; getting out and about and keeping busy; an adequate income, good information and good access to healthcare. National policies already offer many opportunities to refocus local services in order to promote greater independence and well-being for older people, although better organisation is needed. Mr Ronald (age 81) was referred to the hospital social work team for older people following his admission to the acute psychiatric ward for older people; under section 2 of the Mental Health Act 1983 (an approved social worker from the adult mental health team undertook the assessment). The admission followed a worsening in Mr Wilson’s mental health and an incident in which he apparently threatened his home help with a knife. Mr Wilson had been diagnosed three years previously with Alzheimer’s and at that time the community-based social work team had arranged home help twice each week and Meals on Wheels. These services had remained in place but had not been reviewed. The medical team all felt that Mr Wilson needed residential or nursing care. He was verbally...
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...This paper will address the interventions that social workers employ in the service of caregivers of people diagnosed with Serious and Persistent Mental Illnesses. It explores if certain demographics of the caregiver should guide the type of intervention social workers utilize when providing caregiver support. Introduction A. Caregiving. The act of caregiving is not unfamiliar, but the term “caregiving” is relatively new, with the first recorded use of the word in 1966 (Caregiving, 2010). Sixty-five million Americans, which comprise 29% of the United States (U.S.) population, have served as unpaid family caregivers to an adult or a child (Caregiving in the United States, 2009). Caregiving is multi-dimensional. For example, family caregiving,...
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...Social care governance is a framework for making sure that social care services provide excellent ethical standards of service and continue to improve them. Culture values, behaviours, decisions and processes are open to scrutiny as people develop safe and effective evidence-based practice. Good governance means that people recognise our accountability, people act on lessons learned and they are honest and open in seeking the best possible outcomes and results for society. Social Care confronts enormous changes as local authorities and the efforts of health authorities have to deal with the heavy challenges of the Personalisation programme. Though, how can it be taken ahead in the present circumstances of important cuts in people’s financial support? All have responsibility for the quality of the social care they provide. Achieving quality is a combination of individual, team and organisational responsibility. Organising that effectively is the purpose of social care governance. Evidence-based practice tells us that this is best achieved by teams reflecting in a structured way on the service they currently provide and then on how it could be developed. Social care is in the process of changing working methods, organisational systems and culture to achieve the range of intentions around creating a more personalised care for older people in our regions social care system. For example Personal budgets comprise funding from different agencies whilst individual budgets just comprise...
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...Centre Name: East End College of Business and ComputingAnd | Centre no: 10562 | Course title | Unit number and title | BTEC HIGHER NATIONAL HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE: LEVEL-5 | Unit 16: Understanding specific needs in health & social care | Student name Student ID | Assessor name | | Margaret Amankwah | Date issued | Completion date | Submitted on | | | | | | Assignment title | Understanding specific needs in health and social care | Assignment Overview: Individuals have a wide & diverse range of demands & care needs. The aim of this assignment is to make a better understanding of these demands & needs within the health & social care service system & the development of these settings to ensure the empowerment of the service users. TABLE OF CONTENTS | TOPICS | PAGE NO | Introduction | …………………….4 | Task : 1 : Understanding perceptions of health , disability , illness & behavior | Task 1A | AC : 1.1 & 1.2 | …………………….5 | Task 1B | AC : 1.3 | …………………….6 | Task : 2 : Understanding how health & social care services & systems support individuals with specific needs | Task 2A | AC : 2.1 | …………………….7 | Task 2B | AC : 2.2 & 2.3 | …………………….7 | Task : 3 : Understanding approaches & interventions strategies that support individuals with specific needs | Task 3A | AC : 3.1 & 3.2 | …………………….9 | Task 3B | AC : 3...
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...Provision for needs to be met in Day care settings Personal support, supervision, advice, chiropody, aids and adaptations, meals. Provision for needs to be met in Residential and nursing homes Early years workers are often role models for children so should lead by example e.g. the language they use between each other will be imitated. Research shows that children imitate vocab and accent as well as actual words. Day care centres encourage independence in personal hygiene and the SLT can be applied here e.g. a service user says that they are able to shower themselves today to the care worker and gets praised for this by the care worker. Another service user is watching this and when it is his turn for a shower he says ‘actually I think I can do it myself today’ Certain powerful residents can encourage anti-social behaviour through SLT e.g. a popular male resident flirts with the nurses so other residents start to do it e.g. a resident is bulling another resident and some residents begin to imitate the bully and join in. The way the early years workers eat their lunch is likely to be imitated by the children therefore they should display good table manners i.e. eating with mouth closed, knife and fork in correct hands. At day care centres intellectual stimulation is encouraged. SLT can be applied here e.g. the carers sit down to play chess. Service users see this and start their own chess group. SLT can be applied to pro-social behaviour e.g. residents in lounge A...
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...welfare of the service user. The inter-professional partnerships also co-ordinates in order to ensure that, each professional's effort are acted upon, and to ensure that each practitioner is aware of what the others are doing. The children Act 1989 laid the foundation for inter-agency and inter-professional collaborations. In order to clearly explain the benefits of interagency partner in health and social care I will look at some real life situation (case study) and show how the agencies collaborate to focus on the holistic wellbeing of the patient. Case Study John is a 69 years old man and he lives alone. Four months ago, he was diagnosed with neuritis disease and he is been advised by his GP to undergo surgery to remove the damaged nerve but he is nervous about the surgery. As a result of his condition, he has been having difficulty with walking and he has to quit his job. He has started drinking in the evenings and also got a liver problem and because of these problems, he is depressed. The ranges of professionals that are working with John to ensure that he gets the best of care include the following: The first point of contact for John is the General Practitioner (GP). He was the health professional who diagnosed him of neuritis (Neuritis is the inflammation of the nerves, involving a single nerve or a series of nerves). The GP also prescribed mild anti-depressants to help reduced some of the depression that he is feeling and also to help him have a positive relationship...
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...education they need, this will then lead on to them being more likely to get a higher paid job which means that there are more taxes paid which helps to keep the government running. With this system, society will be stable and promote productivity but if it does not go to plan, parts of the system will fail and have to find new order and stability. Functionalism highlights the order that exists in society and focuses on social stability and public values. Some functionalists focus on the function of human behaviours, one of these sociologists is Robert Merton who categorised human functions into two sections; ‘manifest functions’ which included the actions that were obvious and intentional such as attending a church to worship as part of a religion and ‘latent functions’ which are actions that are neither intentional or obvious such as when going to the church to worship they are unintentionally going to also separate their personal values from their uniform, work or religious values. Functionalism doesn’t encourage people to be an active role or go about changing their social environment, even if these changes could be useful and good for them. By using the basics to the functionalist perspective, Talcott Parsons( ) came up with the idea that in order for society to function without error, each individual within society must be healthy. When someone becomes ill they have a new role to fill which includes being excused from going to work or school or going to family events as well...
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...week a simulation was done that modelled at home interviews and an acute care setting. The first simulation consisted of visiting a home as a representative of the school for a wellness check. A male student had been sent home because of lice with medication and instructions on how to eradicate the lice. The mother greeted me at the door in a hushed scared manner. I was allowed in the home but unable to see the child since she had sent a seven year old boy out to the store. The home environment suggested many things: alcohol use, drug use, unsafe conditions for small children, poor nutrition, unclean environment and an abusive home. The mother had fresh bruises on her face and when questioned revealed that her husband isolated...
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...with the non-clinical care of young children and babies. Nursery nurses offer care for children until the child has reached the age of five. A nursery nurse includes taking care of a child’s learning, education, play and social development. Daily Tasks: The work of nursery nurses normally includes the following: he/she need to provide physical, emotional and spiritual care for the children; he/she need maintain the environment in a child friendly manner, they would need to support carers in the parenting of their children. Duties also include attending meetings, finding ways to stimulate children particularly those with special and sensory needs, planning and supervising activities such as arts and crafts, music and cooking. Qualifications required: Nursery nurses usually need to hold a relevant child care qualifications such as: * CACHE Level 3 Diploma in Child Care and Education - for entry onto this course you may need some GCSEs or equivalent level qualifications * BTEC National Diploma in Children's Care, Learning and Development - for this course you may need four GCSEs (A-C) or equivalent level qualifications * NVQ Level 3 in Children's Care, Learning and Development. These are usually undertaken within the workplace, so you will usually need to be employed in an appropriate job role Skills and Qualities required: The skills and qualities you will need are: communicate skills, you would have to understand child behaviour and care; you should also be...
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...P1&P2: explain the principal sociological perspectives and explain the different approaches to health and ill health. Functionalist Perspective and the approach to Health: The functionalist perspective was published in 1951 by Talcott Parsons which studied the social structure as a whole and the ways in which it functions. This view promotes the social solidarity and value consensus; this is the belief that each person should share the same basic norms and values within society. Therefore, this would make each society run smoothly. Functionalists believe strongly that each individual has an equal opportunity of success within their life, that the nuclear family is a vital concept as it provides the most suitable environment for children to be raised within and believe if an individual has ill health that it is there responsibility to work with health professionals to re-gain good health status. This perspective has been widely criticised by individuals as it is believed that they do not value the diversity within a society. The functionalist approach to health is identified through the relationship shared between an individual who is sick and the whole of society. Talcott Parsons strongly believed that for a society to run smoothly all individuals must be free of ill health and that ‘medicine serves the wellbeing of society as a whole’. Individuals in which believe the functionalist perspective believe that having a sick role in society is classed as an act of deviance...
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...Kings residential care home is located in your area. Task 1 Role of a Healthcare Manager * Define Manager * Define care home / health care manager * Discuss the roles of a health care manager ( leadership, care interventions, organisation and management of care, teaching and promoting health and wellbeing, training and educating colleagues and students, utilizing research and evidence based care). You can find them in week 3 slides. Use these points to discuss the role of a manager and in relate to Seven Kings residential care home. Discuss the role of a healthcare manager in achieving effectiveness and efficient service delivery of care. Role of a healthcare manager: A role of manager within the healthcare sector maybe different according to their titles and the functions of their facilities. Hospital administrators are in charge of admissions, staff and upkeep of medical centers, making sure that patients receive the necessary services. In large facilities, clinical managers focus on a specific department, such as surgery or nursing. They set goals and procedures for their areas of responsibility after consulting with other clinical managers and the chief administrator. Health information managers ensure that sensitive medical data is safeguarded from casual and unauthorized access. A healthcare manager is an individual who deals within the organizations business aspect such as its finances and operations. A health care manager's primary...
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...Procedure or Practice is a clear step-by-step method for implementing an organisations’ policy or responsibility. Procedures describe a logical sequence of activities or processes that are to be followed to complete a task or function in a correct and consistent manner There are curent and relevant legislation and organisation practice and policies procedure affecting partnership working in health and social care: Equality Act 2010, Care Standard Act 2000, Disability Discrimination Act 2005. Equality Act 2010 is the law that was enacted to prevent different types of discrimination, such as direct and indirect discrimination, victimisation and harassment. Wikimedia Foundation, Inc (January 13) described Care Standards Act 2000 (CSA) as an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom which provides for the administration of a variety of care institutions, including children's homes, independent hospitals, nursing homes and residential care homes. The CSA, which was enacted in April 2002, replaces the Registered Homes Act 1984 and parts of the Children Act 1989, which pertain to the care or the accommodation of children. The Disability Discrimination Act 2005 (DDA), as originally enacted, contained provisions making it unlawful to discriminate against a disabled person in relation to employment, the provision of goods, facilities and services, and the disposal and management of premises. It also...
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