Unit 4222-214 Support individuals to carry out their own health care procedures (H5C 2005) Assessment Criteria Outcome I Understand health care procedures likely to be undertaken by individuals The learner can: 1. identify treatments and physical measurements likely to be undertaken by individuals A. Typical treatments that may be undertaken could include assisting with personal hygene tasks such as washing, showering or dressing a client. Quasi- medical treatments could encompass applying topical creams where this has been approved by medical staff and training has been given. Physical measurements may include measuring out food or fluids where a client is on a controlled diet or measuring a room to check whether a piece
Summarize the case in five sentences Because there are many porcelain makers in Jingdezhen, the quality of products are low,the styles are limited, and the productivity are low. Most porcelain makers set minimal profit margin goals to pursue volume pricing strategies in the mass market, that cause their works could be mediocre quality and customers could shift to other suppliers. JCAC want to differentiated itself from its rivals by quality and artistic style of its products, and produce high-end product. What are the problems (and the origins of these problems) facing the porcelain/ceramics industry in Jingdezhen? Most of the porcelain makers in Jingdezhen unable to offer uniquely designed products and differentiate themselves from their competitors.
HSC036 – 6.2 – What factors contribute to the wellbeing of an individual? HSC036 – 7.1 – Compare different uses of risk assessment in health and social care. HSC036 – 7.2 – Explain how risk taking and risk assessment relate to rights and responsibilities. HSC036 – 7.3 – Explain why risk assessments need to be regularly revised. HS037 – 1.1 – Identify legislation relating to health and safety in a health or social care work setting.
Most health care is provided in the primary care setting with specialty care referrals provided at the discretion of the primary care provider and may take as little time as a few weeks to several months. In Japan, healthcare insurance is required by law and citizens cannot be denied coverage. Patients have very low out of pocket expenses for medications. Because healthcare is often over utilized in Japan, there have been reports that care has been denied resulting in patient deaths (Kyodo News,2008). Germany has universal health insurance that is funded by employers, employees and government subsidies.
Combined with conventional medicine you then have complementary or intergraded practices. The assortment of health care treatments that are used outside of the realm of what is considered conventional is the Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM). Alternative medicines are used and practiced to nurse and restore health to individuals that are suffering from different illnesses. Many individual benefit from alternative medicines everyday because the have opened their mind and body to the experiences and possibilities that the treatments
It cost a lot more then the government expected they thought it would cost 6.5 millions but it cost 8 million in the first year. If you got poor relief you could not receive a pension also if you had been in prison in the last ten years you could not get it. For the first time help had been given as a right not a charity and the government was addressing needs which in the past had been left to charities or the individual to sort out themselves. Another area the liberals helped was the
In the first, which lasted for tens of thousands of years, medicine was dominated by superstition, witchcraft, and hearsay. With most babies dying at birth, the average life expectancy hovered around eighteen to twenty years. Some useful medicinal herbs and chemicals were discovered during this period, like aspirin, but for the most part there was no systematic way of finding new therapies. Unfortunately, any remedies that actually worked were closely guarded secrets. The “doctor” earned his income by pleasing wealthy patients and had a vested interest in keeping his potions and chants secret.
Visiting Angel nursing home strives to ensure that * The services provided incorporates evidence based, effective practices; * The care and services are appropriate to each consumer’s needs, and available when needed; * Risk to patients, providers, and staff is minimized, and errors in medication in the delivery are prevented. * A proactive sharing of the patient care plan with family and nursing home staff are respected and services are provided with sensitivity and caring. Different approaches to quality improvement are used but The Visiting Angel nursing home care approach to quality improvement is based on the following principles: * A leadership is committed to providing quality care by improving medication errors in the facility, and providing residents with more efficient, effective, and patient-centered care * Changing the organizational culture where mistakes are opportunities for improvement rather than
The current organ donation system has clearly failed at addressing the reoccurring issue with the lack of organ donations as a result many have died and is currently costing the country Billions of dollars. Statistic from June16, 2004 shows that there were 85,744 waiting list candidates waiting to receive an organ and only 6540 transplant were made which is only a mere ten percent of the waiting list (Richard, Schultz 332). This public turmoil had caused many innovative researcher and economist to come up with solution for the ongoing lack of donations in the United States and the world. Unfortunately moral and ethical concerns will have to be the opportunity cost of all the life could be
In 2000, $6.4 billion was spent on medical malpractice insurance as stated earlier, of that money only 3.2% came out of the physician’s revenue (trustedchoice.com). Insurance could cost anywhere from$4,000 to $34,000 (trustedchoices.com) depending on where the practice is but there’s no set limit to how much it costs and the cost is rising everyday while while the claims they were paying were actually decreasing (Nilsson, Traumatized). Annually medical errors in hospital could cost between $17 billion and $29 billion. Most people don’t realize that 1 in 8 preventable medical errors result in a malpractice lawsuit (trustedchoices.com), and 44,000 to 98,000 people die each year from preventable medical