Responsibilites In Health Care Flashcards
Doctors and specialist doctors
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
Nurses
Key medical responsibilities:
Observing condition of patients
Preparing patients for operation
Key non medical responsibilities:
Providing care and counselling
Acting as a patient advocate
Midwives
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
Healthcare assistants
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
Occupational therapist
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
Care managers
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
Care assistants
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
Social workers
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
Youth workers
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
Support workers
Key responsibilities
-following the instructions of health and care professionals
-supporting members of families ho provide care with parenting,financial or domestic skills
