Unit 2 - Lisa Walker
What does HEPPSAF stand for?
Healing/supporting recovery of the ill
Enabling rehabilitation
Providing equipment/adaptations
Providing personal care
Supporting routines
Assessment/care and support planning, Following policies and procedures
What are the 9 key H&SC roles?
- Doctor
- Nurse
- Midwives
- Healthcare assistant
- Support worker
- Occupational therapist
- Youth worker
- care manager / assistant
- social worker
Write about each health and social care profession (there are 9). Involve: roles and responsibilities, qualifications, skills, attributes and salary.
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What are the 6C's?
caring, comassionate, competent, communicative, courage and commitment.
What is the CQC?
The CQC (care quality commission) is an individual regulator of all health and social care settings. They monitor, inspect and oversee that an adiquite duty of care if being produced in the H&SC environment.
What is an MDT?
An MDT (multi - disciplinary team) is a group of professionals that work together, taking a patient centred approach in order to provide holistic care to service users in order to ensure an adiquite duty of care is produced.
Give one advantage of a multi-disciplinary team.
A Multi - disciplinary teams allow the service user a wide variety of treatments meaning that the service user is recieving enhanced treatment and care. An MDT must have a patient centred approach in order to provide a hollistic care.
Give one disadvantage of a multi-disciplinary team.
Due to the amount of professionals working together, opinions and ethics may collide or clash with one another, meaning that the service user will be a topic of conflict between healhcare professionals. This may lead to both the service user and the family feeling on edge or unsafe with the practices that are being provided.