Responsibilites In Health Care

Question 1

Doctors and specialist doctors

Answer 1

Key medical responsibilities:
Diagnosing illness
Prescribing treatment to promote healing and recovery

Key non medical responsibilities:
Creating and maintaining relationships of trust with patients
Acting in accordance with legislation

Question 2

Nurses

Answer 2

Key medical responsibilities:
Observing condition of patients
Preparing patients for operation

Key non medical responsibilities:
Providing care and counselling
Acting as a patient advocate

Question 3

Midwives

Answer 3

Key medical responsibilities :
Diagnosing monitoring and examining pregnant women
Assisting during labour

Key non medical responsibilities :
Arraigning and/or providing parenting and health education
Liaising with other agencies to ensure continuity of care

Question 4

Healthcare assistants

Answer 4

Key medical responsibilities:
Monitoring patient conditions by taking
-pulse
-temperature 
-respiration rate 
-taking blood samples 
-carrying out health checks 
-weighing patients 

Key non medical responsibilities:

• Washing and dressing patients
• supporting and delivering health education

Question 5

Occupational therapist

Answer 5

Key responsibilities:
-being aware of acute medical conditions and how to overcome them in contexts such as accident and Emergency (A&E) and acute medicine

Key non-medical responsibilities:
-advising on home and workplace alterations,e.g wheelchair access

-organising support and rehabilitation groups go caters and clients

Question 6

Care managers

Answer 6

Key responsibilities

• day to day running residential care settings
• enduring sutable staff are available

Key skills ,qualities and tasks

• creating and maintaining relationships of trust with residents
• maintaining confidentiality

Question 7

Care assistants

Answer 7

Key responsibilities:

• providing appropriate daily personal care
• carrying out other routine roles as required by supervisor or service user

Key skills, qualities and tasks

• working in different care settings
• making service user feel at ease

Question 8

Social workers

Answer 8

Key responsibilities:
- liaising with other agencies e.g the police for vulnerable children

Key skills, qualities and tasks:

• preparing and reviewing case files of clients
• ensuring continuity of care

Question 9

Youth workers

Answer 9

Key responsibilities:
-completing a background check with the disclosure and barring service

Key skills,qualities and tasks:
-working across different sectors including care criminal justice and in public private and voluntary sector organisations

• offering advice on topics such as sexual health using language which is accessible to young people

Question 10

Support workers

Answer 10

Key responsibilities
-following the instructions of health and care professionals

-supporting members of families ho provide care with parenting,financial or domestic skills