LECTURER JOB DESCRIPTION AND PERSON SPECIFICATION Job Details Post: Lecturer in Health and Social Care Grade: Pay Scale Range Points: 20 to 35 Responsible to: Head of Department Key Purpose: To plan, deliver and evaluate creative and innovative teaching and learning to learners from levels 1-3. To act as course/subject leader as deemed necessary. To adhere to and administrate Health and Safety policies and procedures. To assist in the coordination of recruitment, enrolment
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on service to other individuals, groups, and communities. ADN Program Associate degree nursing programs are intended to be two years in length based to prepare practical bedside nurses for secondary care settings, such as community hospitals and long-term care facilities. The Associate degree nurse is prepared .to function at the intermediate level, not in leadership and management position. The professional behaviors, communication, assessment, clinical decision making, caring interventions
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LOCAL GOVERNMENT TRANSPORT MASTERPLAN: CASE STUDY J. Lebo, World Bank (1999) Objectives of the case study National or state rural planning processes are often “top down”, technically sophisticated and, hence not geared to participation from local communities, those most affected. Involvement of local government is increasingly seen as being important to rural transport planning and engaging them in this process requires a balancing of the technical requirements of the process with local objectives and
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Mental Health Counseling After reviewing the results of my multicultural self-assessment scores, I have found that overall; I am very comfortable with myself and choices. In counseling, before understanding someone else you must first be able to understand yourself. Also the awareness of your own comfort range must be apparent. If it was not apparent, then how could you counsel someone else when you are uncomfortable with yourself? This self-assessment allowed me to realize
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According to the World Health Organization's (WHO) constitution in 1948, health is defined "as a state of complete physical, social, and mental well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity" (Nutbeam, 1998, p. 351). Health promotion is "the process of enabling people to increase control over and improve their health" (World Health Organization, n.d.). Health promotion includes different focuses with different levels of involvement and services aimed at providing information and
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Asthma Caregivers (Parents, families, caregivers) To learn, to be part of the school community, and to have a positive outlook on life at school, it is important for children to attend as many days of school as possible. Parents tend to keep their asthmatic children home from school. However, with proper planning the child could be in the classroom learning and being part of the school community. Family care givers play an important role in helping children and youth with successful asthma control
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According to the National Institute of Juvenile Justice Research in Action Newsletter (1999), traditional case management consists of a social or mental health worker who secures and coordinates continued social, mental health, medical, and other services for a client (Healey). With the deinstitutionalize of inmates in 1970 the mental health workers found new ways and initiative to coordinate efforts in an attempt to connect social services while monitoring recent released inmates where different
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“How can nurses ensure that older people are treated with respect and dignity whilst being cared for in a hospital or in the community?” Providing dignified care is at the very heart of nursing and is the responsibility of everyone (Royal College of Nursing (RCN) 2008). Nurses play an important part in the care of older people and quality nursing care can make a substantial difference to physical and emotional well-being (Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) 2008). 'Dignity' as defined by the Social
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creative outreach and educational-based health programs in underserved communities). After joining the team as the only Social Worker and working in a department with staff possessing years of only nursing experience and advanced nursing education; I quickly realized my unique skills set wasn’t perceived as comparable to others within the department. Although I had years of experience and advanced education in successfully providing and coordinating public health-based programs and initiatives, none
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ASSIGNMENT: An assessment on the role of an adult nurse The aim of this essay is to demonstrate an understanding of the professional attributes that are required in nursing practice. These are recognised as been appropriate for the nurses to practice and for the nurse’s role to be fulfilled. It is important for nurses to show basic knowledge of the health system and understand how it works to be able to give a reasonable explanation to the patient. To show the importance of good
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