Continually improving and adapting approaches benefits both service users and practitioners, ensuring that each individual needs are catered for. This will also enable you to establish what training or mentoring you need. How can standards be used to help a social care worker reflect on their practice? You need to know the standards to understand what is expected of you as a health and social care worker. Once you know these you will be able to reflect and ensure you are
UNIT CU2942 PROMOTE PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT Understand principles of professional development 1.1 – Explain the importance of continually improving knowledge and practice Within my professional role as a Health and Social Care Trainer, I have a responsibility to engage in continual professional development. I must continually improve my knowledge so I have the skills to pass on to our social care workers and other staff members. I need to know what I am aiming for and what I need to do to meet my objectives. I need to be a positive role model to all staff members. Working in the Health and Social Care industry I think the most important thing is the service users and our health and social care workers and their happiness.
Healthcare Utilization and Finance Western Governors University KOT 1 Task 2 Abstract Nurses today require more than just knowledge about and of medicine. As care providers and medical professionals, nurses are required to be knowledgeable in other areas, such as case management regarding insurance issues. Having the knowledge about insurance coverage such as Medicare A, B, D/Medicaid may be required dependent upon the area a nurse works in such as a physical rehabilitation, sub-acute care, and home health care nursing. Many patients may not have understanding of what services post-hospitalization or aftercare are covered by government insurance subsidies, this is where nurses having this knowledge can be of great benefit in assisting the patient obtain as much from the services as is allotted dependent on the type of insurance the patient has. Throughout this essay is discussion about two patient scenarios examining; a case with insurance and a case without insurance.
Programs are needed to bring the people out to obtain better healthcare in rural areas but again the disparities they face are a stopping force. Because of this many interventionists fail to see the Return on Investment. Often more time, effort, finances and energy is put into providing quality healthcare in these areas. It is hard for the interventionists to see there ROI in the beginning. As the article stated the ROI is often seen many years later, being focused on certain health issues.
Explain the importance of continually improving knowledge and practice. The importance of continually improving my knowledge, is to ensure that the I am aware of, and follow, the current health & social care standards, legislation, and guidelines for good practice. Learning new skills and refreshing training enables me to progress, and achieve within my career and working practices. Personal development not only benefits an individual, but also the organization, and the residents who receive the services. The focus of training tends to be on the staff group delivering the services, to ensure that all recommendations and standards are achieved.
Therefore, with a lot of the advances increasing so are the needs of clients to help facilitate where they may lack. Many clients are faced with issues surrounding the basic needs of life. A better way to understand is to think of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs pyramid. This pyramid depicts how the basic needs are to be met first and as progression take place other needs will follow. The widest range of problems clients face includes the following: housing, childcare, food, safety from another person, and medical care.
People living with one or more long term conditions have the right to decide what support they need and from whom. To promote independence, professionals should: enable individuals and their family to take part in a range of activities and join networks in the community help individuals to use equipment to aid their independence • support informed choices Putting in place communication boards showing information in a way that is understood by the individual. • improve quality of life By making an individual’s choice of activities, food etc. person centred so that they enjoy what they do in life therefore making them happier. Assess the levels of help an individual would need to participate in a range of new activities In this case management is to help the client attain a higher level of activities if this is not met, then we need to assess why the first plan did not work and create a new plan.
People with learning disabilities often have confidence issues and it can feel very daunting when required to access the community independently. These people often rely on support to do so and if, for example they require to use healthcare services outside their support time, they are faced with the problem of accessing the services
Vital signs are a crucial part of caring for a patient in the health care industry as communication is a vital part of being effective in the health care industry. Communication is the key for providers and patients to have the most efficient outcome. Even though people have received quality care from provider for generations, lack of effective communication has made many cases more difficult to ensure the best possible care. The following will entail how effective communication incorporate the basic element of communication, how the basic element of effective communication differ from basic rules of health care communication, how a provider may encourage reluctant consumers candidly, and how may cultural differences influence communication.
In regards to health care and ones individual needs; health care has an essential impact on ones ability to properly take care of there family and themselves. To seek health care options and health essentials often times go unnoticed until someone is facing an illness or more serious health care issue. Many people at this point began realize the importance of being provided with the equal opportunity alternatives services provided by a health care provider; also the health care facilities ability to give each individual in need the care they require. In the United States health care has been a prevalent on the forefront, which begs one to question is this scenario playing out in similar fashion for citizens residing around the world in different