HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE DIPLOMA ANSWERS
Answers for Care Certificate, Manager Induction Standards and NVQ Level 2 & 3 in Health & Social Care
Good health and safety practice can be promoted in an adult social care setting in many ways. Encouraging everybody (including service users, staff and visitors) to report any potential and actual hazards that they encounter promptly means that the environment can be made safer quicker. Explaining to everybody that is their responsibility to ensure that…
The different stages of a risk assessment are: Identify Hazards – You could be actively looking for potential hazards or simply notice something that could be potentially hazardous whilst carrying out your day-to-day activities. Assessing Risks – Having identified a hazard, you must then make an assessment of what risks to people’s safety it could…
It is important to assess health and safety risks to prevent or minimise hazards that could potentially cause illness or injury. This protects all individuals from harm as much as is reasonably possible. In addition, health and safety risks must be assessed to comply with legislation and company policies and procedures.
In the event of an accident or sudden illness, the individual should be assessed immediately and first aid administered if necessary. The person responding to the accident or sudden illness should also shout for help from others and ask them to call the emergency services, if required. When the individual is stable, management should be…
Despite the best laid plans and risk assessments, sometimes accidents and sudden illnesses do occur in a social care setting. An individual may accidentally pour boiling water over their hand whilst making a cup of tea and scald their skin or not cook their food correctly and get food poisoning. They may also trip and…
Stress can be managed in many ways. Very often, simply talking to someone about you feel can alleviate the stress. This could be in the form of offloading worries to a loved one or explaining to your manager why you will be unable to meet a deadline. This is a simple, yet effective, way to…
I tend to feel stressed if I am overloaded with work (both personal and vocational) and can see no way of meeting my deadlines. I also feel stressed if I have inadvertently upset my girlfriend or one of my children.
There are several signs or indicators that yourself or somebody else is suffering from stress. It may be a change in eating or sleeping habits, such as a loss of appetite, overeating, being tired all the time or insomnia. Changes in characteristics, such as being easily irritated, getting angry for no tangible reason or having…
James is 19 years old; he lives with his parents, twice a week he goes bowling or to the cinema with his support workers. They also go with him to the local college where he is studying Horticulture. At his last care planning meeting James expressed a wish to live independently with someone of his…
James is 19 years old; he lives with his parents, twice a week he goes bowling or to the cinema with his support workers. They also go with him to the local college where he is studying Horticulture. At his last care planning meeting James expressed a wish to live independently with someone of his…