Key Roles Flashcards
Doctors - HEALHCARE
Role- treating all common medical conditions and refers patients to hospitals and other medical services for urgent and specialist treatment.
Diagnose, treat, monitor and prevent illness
Responsibilities-work in partnership with patients
Giving patients information they wants or needs in a way they can understand
Nurse- HEALTHCARE
Role - be a caregiver for patients by managing physical needs, preventing illness and treating health conditions.
Responsibilities- assessing, observing and speaking to patients
Recording details and symptoms of patients medical history and current health, restore health and well-being.
Midwives- HEALTHCARE
Roles- midwives prepare women for the delivery of new life and during all stages of pregnancy, Labor and postnatal period.
Responsibilities -provide full antinatal care including parenting classes, screenings and clinical examinations
Motinor antinatal and postnatal development and health of Mother and Child.
Specialist doctors- HEALTHCARE
Roles- a Specialist is an senior and experience clinician who provides expertise in specialised area e.g cardiologist
Responsibilities- responsible for patients in their area of practice as an expert decision.
Treat, diagnose, monitor and prevent illness such as cardiology.
LIASE with other professional such as nurses.
LIASE- TEAM WORKING ( KEY WORD)
Healthcare professionals- HEALTHCARE
Role - PROVIDES MEDICAL ADVICE and treatment to patients.
observing, monitoring and recording patients condition by taking temperature, pulse, weightamd respiration.
Communicating with relatives and friends.
Responsibities- developing an treatment plan, educating relatives and friends, providing diagnoses for symptoms.
Occupational therapist- HEALTHCARE
Roles- aims to improve patients ability to do everyday tasks if patients are having difficulty.
Focuses on all areas of life to help you enhance your ability to live independently.
Responsibilities- evulating a patient conditions and needs
Developing treatment plans help patients needs to achieve their goal
BASICALLY DOES EVERTHING
Care manager- SOCIAL CARE
Roles- responsible for all aspects of day to day activities/ operations within care settings.
Responsibilities- leading and managing staff so they can perform their roles safely and to their best abilities
Care assistance- SOCIAL CARE
Role - someone who provides help and support to one more more cilents- assisstancing patients with care.
Mobile support, assisstancing with personal hygiene by bathing and brushing teeth.
Responsibilities- support clients who lacks mobility and independance.
Helps and assists with personal care- washing , dressing, mobility, medication.
Social worker- SOCIAL CARE
Role- working with people to find solutions to their problems
Protecting vunerable people from harm and abuse.
You’ll work with clients, families, Elderlys .
Responsibilities - visiting clients ( homes, hospital, prison, etc)
Organising support
Assessing clients needs
Youth worker- SOCIAL CARE
Role - support young people and people at risk of offending
Responsibilities- support young people
Run projects that focus on issues like health, bullying, crimes, drugs
Support worker- SOCIAL CARE
Role - Supporting workers, supporting people with learning difficulties, autism, mental health needs
Responsibilities- provide emotional support for individuals and their families
Additional healthcare professionals
Dietitian, pharmacist, physiotherapist, dementia specialist/ psychiatrist/ consulate, learning disability nurse, speech and language therapist, psychologist
