Different types of accidents and sudden illnesses that may occur in a social care setting.
There is many different types of accidents which can occur in health and social care setting such as these listed below: cuts and burns in the kitchen, fire, flood, falls, back injuries though poor lifting techniques, strokes, heart attacks, diabetic emergencies, asthma attacks, allergic reactions etc.
If the accident occurs stop and think to don’t put yourself at risk and create another casualty.
Burn:
Liquid scald burns (thermal burns): Run cool tap water over the burn for 10 to 20 minutes. Do not use ice.
Electrical burns: After the person has been separated from the electrical source please follow the instruction
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check for heartbeat and breathing.
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Do not put any salve or medicine on the burned area, so your doctor can properly assess your burn.
Do not put ice or butter on the burned area, because these measures do not help and can damage the skin tissue yourself
Accidents
Procedures
Check danger from fire, fumes, moving vehicles, falling masonry or chemicals. If any of these are present, do not enter area
If it is safe to continue, the second priority is to establish how seriously injured the casualty is ,or ,if there is more than one casualty to identify the one needling the most urgent help. Approach the casualty to assess their condition.
You must ensure that the casualty’s condition is not made worse by incorrect first-aid action.
The role of first aid is to preserve life, to prevent a condition worsening and promote recovery.
Protect yourself with vinyl gloves if you are likely to contact with blood or other body fluids.
Do not move casualty unless they would be in more danger by staying in the same position.
If any accident occurs it must always be reported in the accidents book.
University of Wisconsin school of medicine and public health. (2014, May 17). Assessing Burns and Planning Resuscitation: The Rule of Nines. Retrieved from UW Health: http://www.uwhealth.org/emergency-room/assessing-burns-and-planning-resuscitation-the-rule-of-nines/12698
D1: I have decided to look at a 6 year old going through bereavement. Bereavement means to lose an individual very close to you. When children go through bereavement they are most likely to feel sad and upset about the person’s death. Children at a young age may not understand when a family member dies. Children may not understand bereavement. For example a 6 year old’s father been in a car crash and has died from that incident. Death is unpredictable and children can’t be prepared for a death of a family member as no one knows when someone is going to die or not. Unfortunately every child can experience bereavement even when a pet dies. It is important that we are aware that effects on the child so we can support them in the aftermath.
With patient safety always being the number one priority FTR is the worst case scenario for the hospitalized patient. In an article titled “Failure to Rescue: The Nurse’s Impact” from the Medsurg Nursing Journal author Garvey explains ways FTR can occur “including organizational failure, provider lack of knowledge and failure to realize clinical injury, lack of supervision, and failure to get advice.” Nurses are problem solvers by nature, they heal the sick and help save lives. FTR is a tragic experience for everyone involved. The recent surge in this happening across the country has given FTR cases widespread media coverage. Hospitals are trying to figure out what the root cause is and how they can be prevented. Fortunately, with the advancement of technology and extensive research many hospitals have developed action plans and procedures to help prevent the early warning signs from being
Department of health (2007) say that there are 3 types of risk assessment:the unstructured clinical approach, the actuarial approach and the structured clinical approach (DOH 2007). Many Mental health Professionals over the past years have used the unstructured clinical approach to risk assess. This is based on your experience and judgement to assess the risk. However this way has been criticized for not being structured and this then leads to inconsistency and to be unreliable (Turner and Tummy 2008). This approach would not be useful for the case with Julie as she is not known to services and every person is different as you may not have seen her symptoms before if you base the risk assessment on experience.
Flanagan (1954) defined critical incident as extreme behavior either outstanding effective or ineffective with respect to attaining the general aim of the activity. A critical incident also defined as an unintended event that occurs does not from the patient’s illness but when health services are provided to an individual and resulting serious and undesired events such as death, disability, injury or harm, and lead to prolong hospital stay. “Public Hospitals Act (PHA,2010)”.
2.3 Explain how the health and social care practitioner own values, beliefs and experiences can influence delivery of care.
Some of the common instances may cause serious damage to a patient due to clinical negligence are:
This report has been written to explore what the context of healthy communities is. The defined community will be introduced and a geographical map included. Gathered information of the specified community will be evaluated, data’s and statistics will be presented in tables. The focus will be on the health and social care needs of that community. Viewpoints of the residents of the chosen community will be summarized and discussed. Recommendation about observed issues will be implemented. Furthermore, theories and sociological aspects of diverse authors regarding notion communities will be included as they can support the findings.
In nursing practice, the safety competency is all about doing no harm to the patient and provider often by following the right procedures and monitoring the system’s performance for efficiency, as well as ensuring peak individual performance amongst the practitioners and their support systems. Integrating safety into the nursing practice, education and research is paramount to the effectiveness of the profession in so many ways as will be discussed in this paper. But before that, it is necessary to consider the knowledge, skills and attitudes that are related to this particular competence. The paper will then discuss the implications of integration with respect to the working environment.
Working as a nurse, patient care associate, or any other health care professional is not an easy job. Nursing profession has the highest rate of back and other injuries related to lifting, moving and transporting patients. Hospitals and other nursing facilities were experiencing increased numbers of injuries, which meant many lost work days, worker’s compensation costs and patient safety at risk.
Over the last 5 years, in health and social care sector, there has been rapid developments in personalisation. The developments in personalisation include developing a more flexible model of provision based on greater control, independence and choice for service users. The Valuing People White Paper on services for people with learning disabilities (Department of Health, 2001a) announced its ‘new vision’, in which public service provision would be based on these key principles including independence, choice and social inclusion. More specifically, the announcement in relation to legal and civil rights marked that ‘all public services will treat people with learning disabilities as individuals with respect for their dignity, and challenge discrimination
These effects will most likely harm their daily health severely and could take its toll, with the exposure to asbestos, hazardous chemicals, stress, fatigue, extreme heat etc. The employee could develop diseases, such as forms of cancers, tumours, or physical injuries as such. Physical Injuries could include, cuts, bruises, sprains, etc. which require medical or first-aid attention. Injured employees, cannot work productively and will need time off work. Also, the family of the worker will also take the burden of financial costs associated with seeking medical attention and performing operations as such. These costs can further intensify when the injured family member cannot earn money due to their sickness, and where another family member may be forced to resign from their job in order to take care of the injured family member. Furthermore, hospital waiting times can also mean lost time for families being
You may also need the following: breathing assistance, skin grafts, tube feeding, physical therapy exercises, or plastic surgery. Some home remedies for burns include cool water, cool compress, antibiotic ointments, aloe vera and honey. Some home remedies that you should not use for burns are egg whites, ice, cotton balls, and butter. Butter and egg whites haven’t been proven to be effective.
Accidents occur in the workplace but in secret. These most of the time lead to physical and mental injuries that might affect the worker way of living for the rest of their lives. It is estimated that more than 337 million workers get injured in their place of work or in the course of work every year leading to work-related diseases causing about 2.3 million deaths per year (United States Department of Labor, n.d.).
First aid trained personnel and the first aid kit are the best tool to prevent further damage to the injured and make sure they are on the recovery path swiftly without any problems.