Many of these infections continue to occur more, especially in the intensive care unit (ICU) and other departments. From the six aims of improvement according to the Institute of Medicine (IOM), central line infection affects patient safety, effectiveness, and patient centeredness. Patient safety is important because it is dealing with the patient’s health status. When a central line infection occurs, whether if it starts with an infection or leads to death, patient safety is on the line. Effectiveness affects the healthcare quality because with the science and knowledge needed to prevent CLABSI, it continues to occur more than it should.
Critical incident analysis: informed consent and the use of vaginal examinations during labour This article is a reflection on a critical incident that occurred during a student placement. It outlines the facts of the incident and analyses the implications of the actions taken. Midwives magazine: August 2003 Download the pdf Print this page Introduction Reflection is beneficial to all practitioners, as it allows them to focus on their skills and feelings (Woods, 1998). Varying types of practice can be identified and analysed, which should ultimately, help each of us define our roles within practice and therefore direct us toward becoming highly skilled, competent midwives. This paper reflects on and analyses a critical incident
CIPD CERTIFICATE IN HR PRACTICE Assignment 3HRC Understanding Organisations and the Role of Human Resources Anna Cole, Welcome to Alan Howards. Thank you for joining our lively and energetic workforce. Alan Howard is one of the UK’s largest professional Hair and Beauty wholesalers, a speciality retailer and distributor of professional Hair and Beauty supplies and equipment. Alan Howards was established 22 years ago opening its first store in Stockport followed by the Oldham store and slowly expanding and taking over other local wholesalers such as EWD and Salon Services, to now having 22 branches across the North West of England. The company is family run by Howard Littler owner of the company and 2 sons Anton and Jonathan directors of the company.
Thanks to this extra experience working with chemicals at the salon, I have learned how chemicals enter the human anatomy, such as through hair and nails. I’ve gained a vast amount of experience from my extracurricular work at the salon, and I feel truly prepared for the next level. So far, my educational, employment and volunteer experiences will all greatly help me to become an exceptional chemist. Studying Chemistry has helped me to focus on my goal and to determine the correct path to becoming a successful dermatologist. Choosing the United States as the country in which I will follow my academic career has opened new doors in my life.
UMUC Haircuts will seek to differentiate itself from its competition by introducing a new business model that revolves around attracting young, affluent customers. We will provide exceptional customer service, invest heavily in customer satisfaction to enhance the client experience, keep the Salon upbeat, spotlessly clean and well maintained, and enhance it by adding in up to date and efficient services. Porter’s Five Forces Analysis Buyer Power: Buyer power is high because customers have many different hair products and a new salon to choose from and typically choose a salon based on individualized needs. Customers can have a positive impact on the business. Attracting and retaining them will be the most important part of the new business strategy.
1.1 Summarise key aspects of legislation, regulatory requirements and codes of practice relating to your own role and responsibilities. When teaching and working in the beauty industry there are several acts that must be adhered to in order to maintain high standards of practice. The Health and safety at work act 1974 defines the regulations for maintaining health, safety and welfare in the United Kingdom and defines the duties for employers, employees and contractors in the workplace and regulates to ensure that high safety standards are adhered to. (HASWA 1974) Due to the potentially harmful nature of the chemicals and substances used in the beauty sector every salon/ work area must adhere to all regulations under the Control of Substances Hazardous to Health (COSHH) regulations 1999. Protective equipment must be provided for each individual within the workplace according to the personal, protective equipment at work regulations to prevent cross contamination or injury to both employee and client (PPE 1992).
A multicultural team is about increasing awareness and tolerance and it help eliminate conflict. Developing a base with multicultural beliefs and practices will help healthcare organization meet the challenges of caring for patients of diverse culture. Miscommunication causing misunderstanding will become a major challenge and there will be many conflicts on the job relating to performance. Having a rapport with the community can be a challenge, when opening a new pediatric clinic trying to build trust in this community, people might be accustom to how they been providing medical treatment for their children. The knowledge of choosing the best software, equipment, managing cash flow, technology to capture information for reports, and billing (Kravitz, D.A, 2011).
Ensuring that they have good hand hygeine techniques is also very important when it comes to the prevention and control of infection. Proper cleaning and decontamintation of equipment and the environment is essential. Employee's may also ensure that they attend all relevant infection control training, and inform their employer if they notice that infection control policies are being ignored, or if relevant equipment or PPE needs to be updated/restocked. 1.2 Employers have legal, organisational and personal responsibilites when it comes to the control and prevention of infection. It is the employers responsibilty to assess the risk of infection or the spread of infection and they must also ensure that all relevant procedures are in place and adhered to by their staff, as well as providing the relevant training for their staff to attend.
The health care system has developed significantly in the way it operates, and is constantly changing with time, to achieve the best outcomes for both the HCP and the patient. Conducting research is fundamental, as it provides nurses/paramedics with an increasingly sound evidence base, from which they are able to adapt to and better their practice (Burns & Grove, 2007). Research is a systematic enquiry, which utilises disciplined methods to be able to solve problems and answer questions (Polit & Beck, 2008). Evidence-based practice in health care relates to the process in which the practitioner, utilising the research, obtains empirical evidence regarding the effectiveness of the range of options, and then determines the relevance
Hair and beauty qualifications, for example, will relate to this job because it shows you have an understanding of how to preform and that you are knowledgeable about the techniques needed for the job. This will help the person and the businesses success because having qualified staff will make your business more professional and run a lot better as everyone knows how to act and what to do. As a result to this, staff will perform well and this will make clients happy. Clients will then continue to return to the business and they will tell their friends how good the treatments were. This will lead to the business attracting new customers and therefore make the business more popular, and consequently, more