Unit 3 health and safety and security in health and social care Explain the potential hazards and the harm that may arise from each in a health or social care setting I am working at the Cameron house residential care home which is for elderly people who suffer with Alzheimer’s or dementia. There are 60 rooms in the residential home which each person has their own individual accommodation. Hazards, harm and abuse A hazard is something which can cause someone danger or injury. Harm means
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CHAPTER-1 INTRODUCTION This research is conducted on the topic, “Employee Health and Safety”. Under this topic we have managed to cover many aspects of employee protection. This chapter contains the introduction to the research conducted, the basic research objectives and the importance and logical basis of the study carried out. 1. INTRODUCTION Employee Health and Safety is a very vast topic that comes under human resource management and is a very important one at the same time. Every
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shamed for something out of their control. The negative ideas about mental health that come from the public are heavily influenced by the media’s negative portrayals when crime is committed by those with mental illnesses. When one “crazy” person does something wrong, every single person with OCD, for example, is also viewed as deranged and unpredictable. Although mental illnesses may ignite something in the brain to act, mental health can not fairly be the
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workplace I believe that smoking in the workplace often results in higher expenses for employers. These costs are attributed to increased absenteeism, lower productivity, unscheduled smoke breaks, maintenance of smoking areas, property damage, and health and fire insurance costs. Other studies report that non smoking employees have difficulty concentrating as well. Also I believe that there are many elements when it comes smoking in the work place. It can cause abuse of substances various and numerous
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abundance of happiness, familial cohesion, and self-esteem, however, this information is not always accurate. According to Healthy People 2020 (2017), this nation’s mental illness numerically is a high liability among the immense list of diseases and mental disorders and are a large proportion of the premier forms of disability and health disparities affecting the adult population at an increasingly distressing rate. Objectives MHMD-1, MHMD-4, MHMD-4.2, and MWS-9 target goals such as maintaining a healthy
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Title: (wait till the end) “America’s prisons have become warehouses for the severely mentally ill”- Dahlia Lithwick The institutionalization of mental health care programs has resulted in a high number of mentally ill people ending up incarcerated without receiving the treatment they require due to the fewer funds provided by the government for the proper facilities needed. Dorathea Dix fought for the establishment of psychiatric hospitals. Due to budget cuts and changes in administration, the funds
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kill her mother. With this in the mind the doctor still released the patient. 12 days later, on February 10. 2009, the patient doused her mother with gasoline and set her on fire. This is not the first case where a patient was released from the mental facility against patient wishes. In 1990, James Calvin Brady, was released from the same facility by the same doctor. One day later, he went to the Perimeter Mall and opened fire killing one and critically injuring four other people. According
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Counselling in Health and Social Care – role, application and boundaries. Ethics and legal factors Everyone who works within the health and social care sector has to abide by the ethical guidelines. "Ethics can be defined as a set of moral principles or rules of conduct" (O'Farrell, 1999). The ethics framework states the guidelines that are expected of each counsellor and professional and it consists of three elements; Values, principles and also personal moral qualities. "Professional ethics
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and Goffman argue that mental illness is a social construction. Discuss how this approach differs from the biomedical approach to mental illness. Mental illness has been well-defined severally by some sociologists, professionals in the medical field, politicians and other good academia. Mental illness can be define as ‘a state of one’s mind that affects the thinking, emotions and judgement to the extent that the individual need a medical attention for his/her personal safety and that of the society’
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Biblical Worldview Jesus Christ showed us how much he loved us by sending his son to die on the cross for our sins (John 3:16). In Jeremiah 1:5, Jesus reveals to us how much he cares about us. Jesus said, “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations” (Jeremiah 1:5, ESV). David recognized that life is a gift by praising God in Psalm 139:14. David said, “I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful
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