Lo1 Flashcards
What is a hazard?
A hazard is something with the potential to cause harm e.g soiled bedding.
What is a risk?
Then chance of harm occurring e.g getting an infection from the bedding.
what are health hazards?
An incident or event leading to illness.
What are safety hazards?
incidents leading to personal injury or damage to equipment or premises.
What are security hazards?
Intruders, theft of property or information, kidnapping of individuals or individuals leaving without consent or supervision
what are types of settings?
Health-e.g hospital GP surgery
Care- e.g residential care home and individual home
Childcare environment- e.g nursery or school
Public- e.g shopping centre or park
Transport- e.g minibus, ambulance
what are potential health hazards?
Health- e.g Medication needs to be kept locked away as could be dangerous if given to the wrong person.
What are potential care home hazards?
E.g hoists could be a hazard as an individual should be trained on how to use them effectively to move service users safely.
what are potential childcare hazards?
E.g toys should be tidied away as they could cause a trip hazard,
what are potential public hazards?
A park should have secure fencing so that children cannot run away onto busy roads.
What are potential transport hazards?
E.g A vehicle should be road worthy otherwise it could cause an accident.
Name a care setting hazard?
Environmental- Wet floors, uneven surfaces
Biological- Bodily fluids, waste
Name a care setting hazard?
Chemical- unlabelled, cleaning fluid, hot oil
Psychological- stress, tiredness
Name a care setting hazard?
Physical- Noise or radiation
Musculoskeletal- Manual handling
Name a care setting hazard?
Working conditions- poor lighting, cold
Working practices- long hours, lack of training
Lack of security- Faulty smoke alarms, broken locks.
Name a care setting hazard?
Lack of security- Faulty smoke alarms, broken locks. Hazards are all around you, but carefully managed they will do no harm- settings complete a risk assessment where they look at the hazards, the potential risk and then implement ways in which to minimise them.
How do hazards impact an individual? - injuries or harm
Faulty equipment could cause individuals to be hurt as there could be an electrical shortage and give an individual an electric shock.
How do hazard impact an individual?- illness
If kitchen where food is prepared is dirty then harmful bacteria may get into food and make individuals sick e.g Food poisoning.
How do hazard impact an individual?- poor standards of care
If staff in care home are not trained probably and cant offer the best standard of care to service users they may feel vulnerable and lack trust in the care home staff.
How can hazards impact an individual? Financial Loss
If there are a lack of locks on door then intruders could enter the setting and steal service users belongings.
Types of harm and abuse?
Physical- Hitting, Biting
Sexual- unwanted contact
Emotional and psychological- Verbal abuse
Financial exploitation- withholding or taking money
Neglect- not meeting needs
How may harm and abuse occur unintentionally?
Result of poor care such as care practitioners not following infection control procedures and therefore infecting their service users, or roughly moving a service user in bed causing them to be bruised.
what is intentional harm and abuse?
The individual intends to inflict pain on another person or cause them harm.
Why may harm and abuse occur?
harm and abuse may occur because carers are too stressed, lack of carer training, failure to monitor caregivers, financial dependency, prejudice an hostility, inadequate level of carer support.
Name another reason harm and abuse may occur?
This may be because the care practitioners are also at risk through their working practices eg.harm from: Biological dealing with bodily fluids they are at risk of developing a infection.
what is a musculoskeletal way of an individual getting harm and abuse?
Risk from lifting and moving patients as a considerable number of staff developed bad backs and have injuries. This may be unintentional exposure to harm e.g failing to explain a physical procedure.
Types of abuse and consequence?
-unintentionally exposure to harm by, for example; failing to explain a physical procedure (e.g lifting)
- Not demonstrating or supervising a task probably ( e.g chopping food)
- failing to check the temperature of bath water.
Consequences- physical injury as a result of falling, cutting or scalding skin.
Name another agent of harm or abuse?
Failure to follow infection control procedures e.g using unsterilized needles, or not washing hands correctly.
consequences- an individual may acquire an infection such as HIV or hepatitis B.
Name another agent of harm and abuse and its consequence?
Being verbally hostile towards or critical of an individual.
Consequence- psychological distress such as loss of self-esteem, loss of self- confidence, feeling anxious or upset.
Examples of long and short term abuse?
Short term- Bruise, cuts, Broken bones
Long term- Low self-esteem
Short term- pregnancy or STI
Long term- Mental health issues such as depression, self harm or suicidal thoughts/ attempts.
Examples of long and short term abuse?
Short term- lack of confidence and poor self-esteem
Long term- inability to sleep, angry, upset.
