TDA 2.8 Support children and young people’s health and safety Supporting children and young peoples’ health and safety is essential when working in an educational environment. * 1.1 Describe how current health and safety legislation, policies and procedures are implemented in your setting * * Legislation * * Legislation is set by the law and is followed by making rules, policies and procedures for anywhere that uses them, such as in a school setting. The law provides a number of different acts such as the health and safety at work act and the education act. These have to be followed by schools and help them keep their children safe. * * Health and safety at work act 1974 * * The health and safety at work act is implemented in my setting, this ensures that not only the pupils are safe but also the staff of the school know what they need to do in order to keep them safe from any dangers they could find in their setting.
after a fall or an accident, we might not recover as fast as we would when we were younger. Skin also bruises easier and it takes longer for bruises to disappear. Our bones also get weaker as we age, due to loss of calcium and other minerals. We may also experience a reduction in muscle mass as we get older too. We also become more prone to osteoporosis as we age, due to this.
For example, a Muslim client may request Halal meal and the hospital should therefore provide this meal by all means as it is the client's choice. Strong values and beliefs is an aspect of health care setting. In the context of Britain, English is the man language but as we know everyone living in Britain may not be the Engllsh so speaking, understanding or in
That is where depression comes in. The people that have a hard time dealing with the changes of life are more likely to deal with this illness. When there is no support available for these individuals with depression, it often gets overlooked since depression manifests itself in an older person as them being resistant against the aging process. The purpose of this study was to research how depression
Lastly, clinical disorders can cause sleep deprivation, but they also can usually be cured by some sort of medication. There are seven clinical disorders but the three most common clinical sleep disorders are narcolepsy, parasomnia, and apnea. The effects of sleep deprivation are divided into two parts physical and mental effects. The physical is the more serious of the two; sleep deprivation over long periods of time can kill you. Without adequate amount of sleep the brains ability to function quickly
When the fats lays in the blood vessels, it increases the size and cause a blockage in the artery which can make a person get low breathing and chest pain. Nervous system Nerves cells communicate with muscle to function properly. In older age neurotransmitters which are released by the nerve cell get weaker to communicate with muscle and function less effectively. Degeneration of the sense organs Sight: - cataracts and glaucoma affect eyesight in older people for the age of 60 upwards. When we get old our lenses changes and become hard and cloudy and it gets stop by cataracts from changing shape or transmit light.
Reduced immunity, in turn, makes the person susceptible to a great number of diseases that weaken the body to a great extent and hence, the overall growth reduces. In addition to the growth hormone, lack of sleep may disturb other hormones responsible for the metabolism of compounds such as glucose. This results in conditions such as obesity and type 2 diabetes. Millions of students don’t get enough sleep and they suffer with bad grades. A survey shows that forty-nine percent of
Many care practitioners may also think that prejudice and unfair discrimination is not their responsibility to deal with. “However, acceptance, consideration for others and equality of opportunity are superior values to prejudice and unfair discrimination and they should prevail.” Care practitioners shouldn't be silent or passive when it comes to prejudice or unfair discrimination occurs. “Failing to act could be seen as supporting the unequal and unacceptable treatment of an individual or group of people.” Having
What they found out later, though, was she had failed to specify the people with normal weights had preexisting chronic illnesses or were smokers. This gave them a disadvantage. In another study researchers found that, “overweight individuals (but not obese people) tended to live longer than those of normal weight” (“You Can't Be Fit and Fat). They go on to say that not all overweight people develop diseases, but they are at a higher risk. At first, when this idea was brought up I thought to myself “yes maybe that can be possible”, but after reading several articles on it I know that it is not true.
A decision or course of action does not necessarily become unethical merely because it is contentious or other practitioners would have reached different conclusions in similar circumstances. A practitioner’s obligation is to consider all the relevant circumstances with as much care as is reasonably possible and to be appropriately accountable for decisions made. Fidelity: honouring the trust placed in the practitioner Being trustworthy is regarded as fundamental to understanding and resolving ethical issues. Practitioners who adopt this principle: act in accordance with the trust placed in them; regard confidentiality as an obligation arising from the client’s trust; restrict any disclosure of confidential information about clients to furthering the purposes for which it was originally disclosed. Autonomy: respect for the client’s right to be self-governing This principle emphasises the importance of the client’s commitment to participating in counselling or psychotherapy, usually on a voluntary basis.