The healthcare and social assistance industry includes establishments that provide healthcare and social assistance for the public. These establishments must follow environmental policies to protect the land, water, and air. The healthcare and social assistance industry (NAICS code 62) contains many subsectors such as ambulatory healthcare services, nursing and residential care facilities, hopsitals, and social assistance. Under NAICS 621 (ambulatory healthcare services) facilities including physicians offices, home healthcare services, dentists offices, outpatient care centers, medical diagnostic laboratories, and other health practitioners offices. Under NAICS 622 (Hospitals) general medical and surgical hospitals, specialty hospitals, …show more content…
and psychiatrics and substance abuse hospitals are covered. NAICS 623 (nursing and residential care facilities) covers nursing care and assisted living, community care facilities, and residential mental retardation facilities. As the demographics shift, an increased demand for care services arises and more facilities are being built. The healthcare industry is necessary and will continue to increase because a variety of services are provided to support the needs of communities. There is a good amount of waste generated in this industry, which is made up of many materials from different procedures, tests, and processes. Hazardous waste is generated typically is made up of many different wastes from a variety of departments. Almost every person in the United States is impacted by the healthcare industry.
There are more than 500,000 healthcare facilities in the United States according to the 1997 Census of the Healthcare Industry. These facilities employ 12 million people with and annual payroll of more than $353 billion. Our economy is greatly impacted by hospitals. They contribute more than $1.3 trillion, employ nearly five million people, are ranked second as a source of private sector jobs, and indirectly or directly provide support one of every 9 jobs in the United States. The revenue in the healthcare industry comes from: • Rental and leasing of goods and …show more content…
equipment • Home healthcare services, including blood products, sales of blood, organs and tissues, and ambulance services • Patient services including laboratory services, diagnostic testing, and direct patient care • Other services and medical equipment related to prescription and nonprescription drugs, orthopedic services, vision care and other needs Figure 1 shows how the healthcare industry is divided. Hospitals have the most employees, totaling more than 42 percent of the industry even though ambulatory facilities make up 88 percent of healthcare facilities. Healthcare establishments are centralized in places with a high population for convince. California, New York, Texas, and Florida have the most healthcare facilities and paid employees. In order to know what waste is generated in a healthcare facility, it is important to know what activities take place. Specific activities produce waste and pollution within the sector and these activities can have environmental impacts. The healthcare industry offers many support services including information services, food services, laundry services, pharmacy, central sterile reprocessing, and biomedical engineering. Information services using computers and electronic devices. As technology advances, more electronic equipment becomes available. Information services is responsible for keeping tack of electronic devices and for repairing and disposing of older equipment that is no longer working or needed. Purchasing handles products that are shipped and bought through the purchasing department. There is waste produced but it mainly comes from paper products. Other waste includes pallets, cardboard, and shrink-wrap. Healthcare facilities typically use large quantities of food and products. Meats, vegetables, canned foods, cleaners, disinfectants, and pesticides all generate a lot of solid and organic waste. According to the EPA food services in large hospitals can be the largest “restaurant” in a community. Having so much food requires chemical cleaners in order to meet health standards and pesticides to keep out pests. Chlorofluorocarbons could be found in refrigerators and freezer units. Wastewater from food preparation and dishwashing is monitored so excess chemicals and organic substances aren’t being put into the sanitary sewer. Laundry services are used in the healthcare industry, and many linens washed contain body fluids and blood.
POTW are not typically concerned about contamination and use detergents and disinfectants which can have impacts on the environment. Pharmacy services are a major service that includes the compounding and the dispensing of pharmaceuticals. A lot of waste is generated form the plastic packaging. Common pharmaceuticals often meet the criteria for RCRA characteristic waste. It is important to properly manage expired and unused pharmaceuticals as well as chemotherapy products. Central Sterile Reprocessing and Distribution (CSRD) works to decontaminate equipment and sterilize products throughout the facility. Surgical units depend on CSRD units for regularly cleaning things like endoscopy units. Biohazardous waste and solid waste are routinely produced. Monitoring of water discharges and chemical process are monitored. Biomedical engineering supports devices used in direct patient support services. Tasks include calibrating machines and replacing and testing batteries used in the equipment. Labs are constantly being used to run tests and use large volumes of chemicals and other substances. This causes concern for water and air
emissions. Diagnostic services include but are not limited to endoscopy, cardiac catheterization, radiology, nuclear medicine, sleep study labs, and EEG studies. Endoscopy and Cardiac Catheterization produce biohazardous waste but have been working to produce less waste at the cost of using more high-level disinfectants, which then produce hazards for water and air. Radiology produces heavy metal waste because lead shields are used to protect patients from being exposed to harmful rays. As time goes on the shields need to be replaced and the old ones are to be treated as hazardous waste. Nuclear medicine is a branch of diagnostic treatment that offers diagnostic imaging and radioisotope treatment. This produces radioactive waste, which may also be RCRA waste and separate from nonhazardous waste. Oncology and cancer centers must use caution when handling prescriptions and equipment. There is a large amount of equipment that can be contaminated from vials, bottles, IV bags, and PPE. These materials require separate containers for materials determined to be RCRA waste and for nonhazardous materials that can be collected separately.
P3 – Describe the investigations that are carried out to enable the diagnosis of these physiological disorders
Person centred care means basing the care and support of a person around them. Looking at things from their perspective, promoting their beliefs, preference, likes and dislikes. They are involved in the development of their support plans, risk assessments and what they want to achieve. They determine what they want and how they want things doing. It promotes their individual needs and what is important to them. We listen to the individual and find out about their wishes and look at ways of carrying this out as safely as possible. We work with the individual, their families and others to empower the individual and to promote independence in their lives and ensure that the individual is supported to maintain their lives as they
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.
When I graduated high school, I really gave a lot of thought about what I wanted to do with my future and who I wanted to be. During this time, I read that psychologist often suggest people revisit the activities they enjoyed as a child. They claim that children spend their time participating in activities that bring them the greatest delight. Children do not think about salaries and retirement plans, they simply do what makes them happiest. This made me think back to how I spent my childhood and what I did in those years solely for the sake of it bringing me joy. That is when I realized that care giving and nurturing has been a part of my happiness since I was a child. Whenever a family member or friend was injured or ill, I would be the first in line to administer a Band-Aid or bring them soup in bed. When I was blessed enough to have everyone in my life be in good health, I would find an outlet for care giving in my stuffed animals. I would come up with fictional illness and ailments and find a way to care for them; whether it was constructing a tourniquet out of my hair ribbons, a cast out of duct tape or an oxygen mask out of sand which bags. When I allowed my imagination to run wild, I always found my greatest joy in nurturing. As I grew older I gave up my imaginary patients, but I never lost the happiness I felt when caring for another person.
Within the care system there are two different routes in to care and these are voluntary care and compulsory care. Voluntary care is when the parent agrees for their child to be placed in to the care system and this care section is under section 76 of the social services and wellbeing act of 2014. Then there is compulsory care and this is when the imposition of a care order is put in place by the authorities. This is under section 31 of the social services and wellbeing act of 2014.
P1: Using a table, describe the physical, intellectual, emotional and social development for each of the life stages of an individual.
What does ‘care’ mean? Care is the provision of what is necessary for your health, welfare and protection of someone or something. However when you talk about ‘care’ in a care practice the term changes and becomes more about enabling people to meet all their needs which would refer to their social, physical, emotional, cognitive and cultural needs. The individual is central to the meaning of care in this context.
2.3 Explain how the health and social care practitioner own values, beliefs and experiences can influence delivery of care.
The United States health care system is one of the most expensive systems in the world yet it is known as being unorganized and chaotic in comparison to other countries (Barton, 2010). This factor is attributed to numerous characteristics that define what the U.S. system is comprised of. Two of the major indications are imperfect market conditions and the demand for new technology (Barton, 2010). The health care system has been described as a free market in
Monitoring a health and social care team’s performance is essential so that any threats to its service delivery, are identified early and corrective actions taken. There are two dimensions of team functioning: the tasks the team are required to do, and the social climate that impacts on how they operate. The social climate will determine how team members cope with diversity of opinions, accept difference and resolve conflict.
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.
Individuality. It implies in regarding them as individual, concentrating on their needs, capacities and accomplishments. It implies esteeming who they are, what they are occupied with and what they can in any case do, not on the way that they have dementia hence needn't bother to have the same attention as normal individual. It is also treating them with respect and dignity.
According to Harry A. Sultz and Kristina M. Young, the authors of our textbook Health Care USA, medical care in the United States is a $2.5 Trillion industry (xvii). This industry is so large that “the U.S. health care system is the world’s eighth
The grievances strategy for Four Seasons Health Care diagrams the accompanying points: To determine concerns/grumblings as fast and adequately as would be prudent, through a casual reaction by a cutting edge individual from staff. In the event that this is unrealistic then through a more formal examination and appeasement in an open and non-cautious way • To guarantee that all worries/objections are managed as per this methodology • To guarantee that staff, patients and relatives/carers know about the strategy and methodology. • To enhance nature of administration by distinguishing lessons gained from objections locally and broadly and by executing changes in administration utilising the lessons learnt • To maintain impartiality for both
There are numerous public health problems that can be addressed in my Southside of Chicago community. Among the several public health problems facing my Southside of Chicago community there are two that are more urgent. Health education or one might say lack thereof is a problem that needs to be addressed. My community is plagued with many of the residents suffering from high blood pressure, diabetes, and the killer virus known as HIV. In most cases these conditions can be prevented with healthier lifestyles and access to nutritious organic foods. In addition, environmental health is another urgent problem my community is facing. Access to clean, safe water and air is supposed to be a fundamental human right aimed at a healthy environment. Yet, my community consists a waste contaminated beach, numerous deteriorated building that are still occupied, and a countless number of restaurant and stores supplying our residents with services that are endangering their health.