Acts and stuff Flashcards
What year was the mental health act made?
1983
What does the mental health act do?
- It lays down the rules for compulsory admission to hopsital if a person with mental health illness poses a risk to the health and safety of other and/or themselves.
- Limits the amount of time someone can be detained
- gives individuals the right to appeal about there detention.
What is it called when someone is compulsory admitted to a mental health unit?
Sectioning.
Why must the process of sectioning be taken very seriously?
Because when sectioned individuals temporarily loss their legal rights
What does the mental health act do for those who have been sectioned?
It protects individuals rights during and following the sectioning process.
Who can carry out a sectioning?
a qualified psychiatrists or in limited circumstances a registered health nurse however this will have to be approved by a social worker.
What does the mental health act aim to do?
Provide a balance of care and control for those people who are deemed to be experiencing mental health disorders.
What year is the Equality act?
2010
Outline the Equality act 2010
- This is an act that legally protects people from discrimination in the workplace and wider society.
- It replaces anti-descriminaton laws with a single act, making the law easier to understand and strengthening protection in some situations.
What year is the NHS an community care act?
1990
What changes were made as a result of the NHS and community care act? 1990
Instead of services being mainly provided by the statuary health and social care services after the act services were commissioned by social services from a range of agencies (private, Voluntary) this is the mixed economy of care.
What year is the data protection act?
1998
What does the data protection act 1998 do ?
It protects information on computer based records.
What should all data held of computer records be according to the data protection act?
- Accurate and up to date
- Obtained fairly and lawfully
- Used only for a specified lawful purpose
- Kept confidential
- Available for scrutiny
What year was the freedom of information act?
2000
What is the freedom of information act 2000?
This act provides public access to information held by public authorities.
How does the freedom of information act give the public access to information held by public authorities?
Two ways:
- the authorities are obliged to publish certain information about there activities
- Member of the public are entitles to request information from public authorities.
What information does the freedom of information act protect?
Any information that is held by public authority in England, Wales and Nothen Ireland.
What year is the Mental capacity act?
2005
Whats the purpose of the mental capacity act 2005?
To provide a legal framework for acting and making decisions on behalf of adults who lack the capacity to make particular decisions for themselves.
What year is the children act?
1989
Who does the children’s act 1989 affect?
- Midwifes
- Teachers
- GP’s
- Health visitors
- Parents
- Hospital staff ( paediatrics)
- Social workers
What should all staff know according to the children’s act 1989?
- The welfare of the child is paramount
- Where possible a child should be cared for and brought up buy there own family
- Children in danger should be kept safe by effective intervention
- Children should be consulted about decisions effecting their future
- Parents continue to have parental responsibility for the child even when they are not in there care. They should still participate with decisions
- Parents in need should be given correct support to help raise there child.
What are the care values?
- Promoting anti-discriminatory practice
- Maintaining confidentiality
- Promoting and supporting individuals’ rights
- Acknowledging individuals’ personal beliefs and identities
- Promoting effective communication
- Protecting individuals from abuse
- Providing individualised care
Explain anti-discriminatory practice as a care value
- Discrimination means that certain individuals are treated less favourably than others because of a personal characteristic e.g. racisms,sexism
- Care professionals must challenge and repot any form of discrimination to their line managers
Explain maintaining confidentiality as a care value
- Confidentiality is about keeping information private that should be kept private.
- Information can only be passed on with the patients permission
- This can be broken in exceptional circumstances
How can confidentiality by maintained?
1) Storing all records in locked filling cabinet or password protected computers
2) Carrying out consultations in a private room
3) Not gossiping about patients outside the care setting
Explain promoting and supporting individuals rights as a care value?
- Under the human rights act service users need to have their rights acknowledged and respected in health hand social care settings
Explain acknowledging individuals’ personal beliefs and identities as a care value
- Care workers should try to communicate that they accept the person for who they are and what they believe in.
- Care workers may not always share the beliefs or lifestyle choices but should still show they accept the individuals
Explain promoting effective communication as a care value?
Through effective communication care workers develop relationships with individuals in their care which will assist the caring process. communication barriers can be overcome by learning a new language, using an interpreter or advocate, lip reading or sign language
Why do we need effective communication in a care setting?
Effective communication is needed in order to ensure a good quality of care is provided to the service user
Explain providing individualised care as a care value?
Care professionals must prevent, challenge and report any abuse that they witness.
This abuse could be physical, emotional, psychological, sexual or finicial
What does CQC stand for?
Care quality commission
What is the care quality commission?
The indépendant reglator for health and social care in England. It makes sure health services such as hospitals , care home, dentists and GP surgeries provide people with safe,effective, compassionate and high quality care.
What are the rules of the care quality commission
- Respecting people and treating them in the way we expect to be treated
- Making sure people receive food and drink
- giving people care in clean,safe buildings
- Managing services and having the right stuff
Who do the care quality commission report to?
They repot to the government parties and punish there finding online
Who is Ofsted?
Ofsted is the office for Standards in Education Children services and Skills
- Its a non-ministerial department of the UK government.
Who does ofsted inspect and regulate?
The inspect and regulate services that care for children and young people, and services providing education and skills for learners or all ages
What do ofsted do?
Inspect schools to provide information to parent, to promote improvement and to hold schools to account for the public money that they receive.
What is care planning?
This is a system for assessing and organising the provision of care for an individual
What are the 5 main stages in the care management process?
- Assessment
- Plan
- Implement
- Monitor
- Evaluate/ review
Why do we need to carry out an assessment of needs?
Assessments should be carried out so that service users and their carers can:
- Gain a better understanding of the situation
- Identify available options for there lives
- Set aims and objectives
- Understand the basis on which decisions are reached
Who carries out the initial assessment on a service user?
The first health professional who has contact with them
What should be sent to every professional who is working with the client?
Core details
Give some examples of core details about a service user
- Name
- Address
- Date of Birth
- Marital status
- Ethnicity
- Health details
Why is it important that care details are passed onto every professional working with the service user?
So the client does not have to keep repeating the same information to each person
What are the 4 bands of assessment
- Critical
- Substantial
- Moderate
- Low
Where can we get information about a person from?
- Care worker observations
- Records, nots and previous care history
- Family and friends
- Specialist tests and assessments
Name some types of assessments that could be undertaken for an individual
- Financial assessment
- Carer’s assessment
- Care programmes approach assessment
- Family assessment
- Young carer’s assessment
- Occupational therapy assessment
- Risk assessment
What is involved in the second stage of a care plan?
The information obtained from the assessments should be used to produce an individual care plan
What should a care plan include?
- Identification of the individuals needs
- Goal and objectives
- Identification of the type of care required
- List of needed care interventions
What happening the monitoring and implementing care stage?
- Monitoring the effect of the care plan for the individual
- Looking for any changes in the individuals needs which would be documented for the next care plan
Give some positive reasons for care planning
- Effective way of recognising each persons particular care needs
- Care planning is more likely to be targeted at the individuals priority needs
- Planning care increases consistency and efficiency of care delivery
- Care plans provide a common focus
- monitoring and evaluation ensures care interventions remain effective and appreciate to an individuals changing needs
What does evaluating care in a care plan involve?
- Evaluating and reviewing the care plan and the effectiveness of the care provided.
- A care practitioner or team of practitioners have to decide wether the care plan goals have been met and if the current plan is still acceptable
Why do care plans need to be evaluated on a regular basis?
To ensure they remain up-to-date and relevant to the individual receiving the care.
What questions should be asked when evaluating a care plan?
- Has the care plan goals been achieved?
- Has the care been effective?
- Have the different care providers been effective?
- Does the individual think that progress has been achieved?
- Do other care providers think progress has been achieved?
- Have the individuals needs changed?
Why should the individual be involved in the care plan from the start?
- It allows the individuals to express their wishes and preferences and allows them to negotiate and gain the persons constant delivery of specific care.
- It prepares them for intervention
What is an organisation culture?
An organisation culture is the values,beliefs and assumptions that influence the practices,procedures and ways of working and the “atmosphere” of the organisaition
Outline what a power culture is
- People in the are dependant on a central power source
- Rays of power and influence spread out from the top person ( the central figure)
- Tends to occur in small,owner- managed care settings and support groups
Outline what a role culture is
- Tends to be controlled by procedures,role descriptions and authority definitions
- A persons job titles or role position effects their experience of the organisation
- Predictable and consistent system and procedures are highly valued in a row culture
Outline what a task culture is
- Care settings that have a task culture tend to adopt a small team approach to their work
- Tend to focus on collaborations between people with specialist skills or knowledge, working as a network to achieve a specific goal
Outline what a person culture is
- This individual is the central point of focus of an person culture
- Individuals tend to have strong values about how they work and have great control over there work
What can organisational cultures effect?
- Decision making
- Management style
- Accountability
- Goals and objectives
- Actions and behaviours
Define quality assurance
The general process of monitoring and evaluating whether specified “standards” of care have been met
Define ‘standards’
Statements of acceptable performance and outcome
Define ‘auditing’
The process of checking an activity or performance against standards.
What do we look at when looking at the quality assurance of a care setting?
1) national care standards
2) Systems within individual care organisations
3) Professional accountability of care workers ( determined by law)
What are national standards made up of?
The citizens charter and the patients charter
When was the national standards introduced?
1990’s
What is the national standards?
A set of documents that outline standards of care which should be common throughout the health care system
Who are the two regulatory bodies that monitor and inspect national standards?
1) Care quality commission (CQC)
2) The healthcare commissions (CHAI) they inspect hospitals
What is clinical governance?
The process of improving the quality of care services within an organisation by improving work systems
Give some advantages of voluntary agencies
- Fills a gap
- Services are free or there is a small charge/donation
- Ensures community cohesiveness
Give some disadvantages of voluntary agencies
- Geographical unevenness
- Can’t compete with private agencies
- Can’t offer services that private agencies can
- Funding can be difficult
- Relies on volunteers
Give some advantages for the private sector
- Fills a gap
- People who can afford it can be treated quickly
- Gives more choice for service users
- Takes strain off statutory services
Give some disadvantages for the private sector
- It creates a two their society
- Causes competition between sectors and voluntary agencies can’t compete
- Geographical unevenness
- Normally profit driven
- Lower quality of care
What is a whilst blower?
A person who exposes information or activity that is illegal, unethical or not correct within an organisation
What is the role of an interpreter?
A person who interprets, epically one who translates speech orally or into sign language
What is professional development?
The process of improving and increasing capabilities of staff through access to education and training opportunities in the work place
Why is professional development important?
To maintain his standards of care
Why is staff training important?
Training is updated as acts and legislation are updated. This means the staff have a good understanding of the standards of care they need to implement
Why is it important for government to regularly review legislation
To check that they are updated and therefore still suitable for modern day society
What is a complaints procedure?
A system that allows individuals to complain about a service
Why is a complaints procedure important?
- Gives services users a voice
- Makes them feel listened to
- Ensures patients are the at the centre of care
- More effective care for patients
- Allows service improvement
- Allows an organisation to target areas of weakness
What impact does a complaints procedure have on the service user?
- Results in better quality care
- Voicing an opinion
- Empowering them
- Encourages service user involvement
- They feel listened to
Give some strengths of the NMC and the GMC
- Protects the public
- Promotes good quality care by introducing a set of minimum standards
- Removes staff from register
- Advice for members
- High quality of care
Give some weakness’s of the NMC and the GMC
- People still make mistakes
- Human error
- May not listen/adhere to recommendations
Give some points for, The impact of the raging population on resources
- Aging population need more money,time,staff
- Health deteriorates so more intervention needed
- More monitoring and regular care
- Other social groups may be disadvantaged
- Tax rises
- Longer waiting lists
- Beneficial for private sectors (care homes)
Give some points for the contribution informal carers have made
- Family and friends look after individuals who can’t look after themselves
- Allows people to live in there own homes
- Cheaper than living in a residential home
- Takes up carers life
- Reliefs the state of some pressure
- Freedom of choice
- Relies on community care
What is a mission statement?
A formal statement of the aim and values of an organisation
Give some advantages of a mission statement
- Service users know what to expect from the organisation
- Workers know and understand the organisations aims
Give some disadvantages of a mission statement
- Need to be reviewed regularly
- It can be difficult to audit a mission statement and to establish how organisations have performed
What is quality assurance?
A set of processes by which an organisation ensures that is carries out functions to an agreed standard.
