./Support Individuals to eat and drink HSC 2014 Mary Steer 23/07/2013 1.3 I give care and support to an individual who is obese and is diabetic. This particular client has a tendency to eat sweet foods and pastries. She had in previous time lost some weight which had left her with a roll of excess skin hanging from the bottom of her stomach and the promise of an operation to remove this, pointed us in the right direction. I started to take her food shopping and helping her recognise what foods are good and what are bad. This was done by reading labels and checking fat, salt and sugar content and also by selecting diabetic foods and fresh foods.
They can also give them support in making referrals for other services. Sure start gives families parenting information; they have support groups and can give support within the home. Sure start provides good quality support in play, learning and child care know-hows for children, both group and those which are home based. They provide healthcare, advice and support for children with special needs through signposting to more specialised services where necessary. “Examples of specific services offered through projects include: Home based ante natal care, Breastfeeding Support Groups Advice, support and information on health related topics Early Language Development Programmes Play development for all ages and stages Age appropriate physical development opportunities High quality crèche sessions Promotion of the creative arts Support for smooth transitions between pre school and school.” (EarlyYearsSureStart) Nursery schools - Provide early learning and childcare for children between three and five years old.
Cu3087 lead Person Centred Practice. . 1.1 Explain person centred practice Person centred practice is a term used to describe several methods of providing health and social care to service users where the emphasis, of that care, is based on the personal empowerment of individuals. It encourages the involvement of non professionals (family and friends) in the planning process. The focus is on the choices.
They are the people who bring you into the exam room when you visit your doctor, or maybe they help the mother who is in labor. The day I knew I wanted to be a nurse was when one saved my life when I was seven. Everyone thinks police that patrol the streets or people fighting for our country are the heroes, but so are nurses. II. Nature of work Core tasks for a LPN are to help provide medical treatment to patients.
It is important to ensure information is accessible to those who need to know it. It is important to have a secure system for recording and storing information to protect confidentiality and prevent identity theft, and maintain the individuals rights. 2.1 Q: Describe how to access guidance, information and advice about handling information. A: To access guidance, information and advice about handling information I can read my company's Policies and Procedures, through induction and other training, through the General Social Care Council's code of practice for social care workers. 2.2 Q: Explain what actions to take when there are concerns over the recording, storing and sharing of information.
Unit 366 Understand and meet the nutritional requirements of individuals with dementia Outcome 1 1 Describe how cognitive, functional and emotional changes associated with dementia can affect eating, drinking and nutrition. Cognitive(thought processing) problems- affecting people's memory, their ability to learn new things, their understanding and problem solving ability. Dementia is brought about by a section of the brain being effected by the cells dying. This will effect the memory and all that we have learnt from birth, how to talk, eat and function in a normal way becomes almost impossible. This means for the individual who has dementia, that the means and importance of food can be forgotten or that they just forget that they are hungry, or forget to eat what has been prepared.
The functionalist perspective recognises that families perform vital functions for their members and for their society, to ensure stability and harmony in order to achieve social order (Giddens, 2009). Functionalists say that society is held together by social consensus, in which members of the society agree upon, and work together to achieve, what is best for society as a whole. Emile Durkheim suggested that social consensus takes one of two forms, one of which is Mechanical Solidarity – the sense of togetherness within a society
In my setting I am a baby room supervisor and on one occasion we had a child that was under social services. My manager Mrs Smith informed me of this before the child started with us. She also give me some background information on the child, child A is the youngest of three girls and the girls are attending nursery as respite for mum. Mum has a drink problem and dad is a schizophrenic. We had to work closely with mum and we had regular contact with social services.
In general terms, the advantage of implementing this strategy in the social contract is that agents will respond to the incentives of altruism, solidarity, conscience, and government reputation, recovering the idea of public ethos. Those bases are fundamental when the individual in a NGO understand that his job will be paid with a fair and equitable distributed salary, from the highest director to the lowest hierarchical worker. As well as discourage bureaucratic corruption and
Career opportunities for social workers are available in hospitals, home health agencies, hospice agencies, nursing homes, schools, community action agencies, correctional agencies, programs for the aging, recreation programs, mental health centers, mental retardation centers, juvenile courts, child welfare agencies, and others. The code of ethics governs social work practice in different countries. Ethics is vital and safeguard for both clients and workers interest and provide guidelines for professional practice. Strategies to infuse the risk of child maltreatment are a part of a social worker job description. The researcher argued that reducing and identifying the maltreatment that some families occur in their home.