Paula Kain Undertake agreed pressure Area care (HSC2024) Unit 4222-229 Outcome 1 1) The skin is the largest organ of the body, covering and protecting the entire surface of the body. The total surface area of skin is around 3000 square inches or roughly around 19,355 square cm depending on age, height, and body size. The skin, along with its derivatives, nails, hair, sweat glands, and sebaceous glands forms the integumentary system. Besides providing protection to the body the skin has a host
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Task 1: 1.1 According to oxford English dictionary (2014) “Policy is defined as a course or principle of action adopted or proposed by an organisation to direct and limit its action in pursuit of a long term goals,” examples smoking policy, manual handling policy. While a procedure on the other hand is an established or official ways of doing things or a series of actions conducted in a certain order or manner, examples are incident report procedures, hand washing procedures. These two are being regulated
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of each of the principle professional groups including myself as a third year student nurse, will be incorporated and collaborative team working addressed. The Department of health (2002) describes discharge planning as a pathway used to decide patient needs, for a smooth move from one level of care to another (Hunt 1996) and is the process through which patient’s needs are identified and plans are written, facilitating continuity of health care (Jackson 1994). According to the department of health
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might be abducted from a school or even a patient discharges themselves from a health and social care setting without consent. Employers, employees and professionals overall, in particular health and social care professionals have to prevent risks that may arise from hazards in order to keep themselves, other service providers and service users safe from illness, injury or any potential harm overall; every individual within the workplace has to be kept safe from harm (even cleaners and caterers).
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Proper equipment (like gloves and personal protective) should be worn when taking care of ill patients at home. Regular hand washing is required after visiting patients in hospital, as well as after taking care of patients at home. 3. Reducing the risk of possible sexual transmission Based on further analysis of ongoing research, it recommends that male survivors of Ebola virus disease practice safe sex and hygiene for 12 months from the beginning of symptoms or until their semen tests negative
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A Summary of Various IT Topics: Topic 1, Topic 3, Topic 5 & Topic 9 John Doe Student #: 500 451 389 ITM 102 – 041 Professor: Sunday November 13th, 2011 X University 1. Amazon’s Kindle Fire tablet has caused a war amongst other tablets in the market, especially Apple’s iPad. The CEO of Amazon, Jeff Bezos, is so confident with this product that he stated, “We’re going to sell millions.” Not only does it come with a $199 price tag, which is $300 less than the iPad 2, the
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care and mobility. The need for a rehabilitation care concept in a specialized rehabilitation hospital increases as the length of stay decreases in acute hospitals after surgery or procedures due to the financial burden on insurances, Medicare, Medicaid, and the acute hospitals themselves. No longer do we see in the United States two week long acute hospital stays after major surgeries, strokes or other injuries that affect the activities of daily living (ADL). The hospitals discharge patients back home
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This front sheet must be completed by the learner where appropriate and included with the work submitted for assessment. Unit 3: Health, Safety and Security in Health and Social Care Course: BTEC Level 3 National Extended Diploma, Health Science Diploma & Subsidiary Diploma in health and social care |Learner Name |Charlotte Welham | |Assessor Name:
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residential home can be very disruptive to the other residence as some residence suffer from dementia; which is seen to be more of a serious illness therefore they just say what comes to their mind no matter what the consequences are for them or the other patients; but this isn’t always the case sometimes it can be taken in the wrong way and may seem to be as if they are in pain therefore whenever a resident screams or shouts any staff members that are nearby has to check that the resident is ok and ask them
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(Edwards) 2005). However, the British Thoracic Society (2008) state that oxygen is a treatment for hypoxamia and, not for breathlessness because oxygen has not been shown to have any effect on the sensation of breathlessness in non-hypoxaemic patients. COPD is a disease that progresses slowly, as a result many other pathological occur, where people cannot breathe in and out properly because of long-term damage to the lungs, and it disrupts the normal ventilation and perfusion process of the
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