Roles and responsibilities of people who work in HSC

Question 1

GPS roles

Answer 1

Treat all common medical conditions
Refer patients to specialists
Clinical examinations
Monitor patients conditions and wellbeing

Question 2

Consultants role

Answer 2

Create and deliver strategies to help navigate complexity
Address challenges
Work with senior colleagues on planning and delivering polices
Provide professional, evidence based ethical advice

Question 3

Adult nurse roles

Answer 3

Advocate and care for individuals
Observe patients and asses their needs
Write care plans and records
Provide emotional support and reassurance to patients and relatives

Question 4

Mental health nurse roles

Answer 4

Promoting and supporting a persons recovery
Provide rehabilitation for eating disorders and addiction
Administer medication

Question 5

Practice nurse roles

Answer 5

Obtaining blood samples
Conducting ECGs
Minor and complex wound management
Travel health advice and vaccinations

Question 6

Midwife roles

Answer 6

Examine and monitor pregnant women
Assessing care requirements and writing care plans
Undertaking antenatal care in hospitals, home and GP practices

Question 7

Healthcare assistant roles

Answer 7

Toileting
Making beds
Talking to patients and making them comfortable
Monitoring patients conditions by taking temps, pulse, respiration’s and weight

Question 8

Adult social care worker roles

Answer 8

Conducting interviews with individuals and families to asses their situation
Undertaking and writing up assessments
Offering info and support
Organising and managing packages of support to enable people to lead the fullest lives possible

Question 9

Child social work roles

Answer 9

Signpost people to other agencies
Complete an assessment of need
Investigate allegations of neglect, physical, sexual and emotional abuse so that a child or young person is protected from harm

Question 10

Occupational therapist roles

Answer 10

Help someone adapt to life after major surgery
Work with people with mental illnesses or learning disabilities with everyday activities such as work or volunteering
Help elderly people to stay in their own home by providing adaptations

Question 11

Youth worker roles

Answer 11

Setting up ans running projects
Mentoring and counselling young people
Managing budgets
Applying for project funding

Question 12

Case assistant roles

Answer 12

Assist clients with personal care
Perform light housekeeping tasks
Assist with safe lifting, transferring /‘d movement of clients
Accompany clients to medical appointments

Question 13

Care manager roles

Answer 13

Creating and updating personalised care plans
Collaboration with patients families to develop treatment plans
Interacting with healthcare providers to facilitate patients treatment

Question 14

Name a policy of the NHS and define

Answer 14

Local patient care policy-

Used to identify patients presenting with infectious diseases that may be a risk to others

Question 15

Name 4 adaptive equipments

Answer 15

Bath lift
Flashing smoke alarm
Wheelchair lift
Soft grip cutlery

Question 16

How to provide personal care, washing

Answer 16

Must make sure an indivisible washes their hands after the toilet, washes theirs genitalia everyday, brushes teach twice a day
Be sensitive to remain dignity, explain what your doing to avoid shock

Question 17

How to provide personal care, feeding

Answer 17

Base their meals off of nutritional food
Make sure they drink throughout the day
People could have special requirements (diabetes, allergies)
Let them bring themselves to the food instead of forcing it in their mouth

Question 18

How to provide personal care, toileting

Answer 18

May need support to get out of bed to the toilet or commode
Give them privacy, turn away cannot leave the room for safety
May need to pass them toilet paper, button their clothes back up or cleaning them with the toilet paper if they can’t manage