Unit 2: A

Question 1

What is health care?

Answer 1

Health care focuses on providing medical care to individuals. It deals with the diagnosis and treatment of both mental and physical disabilities.

Question 2

What is social care?

Answer 2

Social care deals with the daily activities of living such as feeding and basic hygiene. Also, maintaining an individual’s independence, promoting safety and providing support to coping with complex relationships.

Question 3

Give 6 key roles within healthcare:

Answer 3

< Doctor (GPs)
< Nurses
< Midwives
< Specialist doctors
< Occupational therapist
< Healthcare assistants

Question 4

Give 5 key roles within social care:

Answer 4

< social workers
< Support workers
< Care assistants
< Care manager
< Youth workers

Question 5

What the role of a doctor, nurse and midwife?
What setting do they work in?

Answer 5

Doctor: diagnose, treat and monitor illnesses. Provide prescriptions, and refer patients to other professionals. (Work mainly in surgeries)

Nurse: monitor and care for the daily chronic medical needs of patients. Give treatments and prescribed drugs. Work to restore health and wellbeing. (Work mainly in hospitals/surgeries/clinics)

Midwife: monitor the health and development of mothers and babies. Help deliver babies. Provide post-natal care. (Work mainly in maternity units within hospitals/clinics)

Question 6

What’s the role of a social worker, support worker and care assistant?
What settings do they work in?

Answer 6

Social worker: find solutions to peoples problems. Protect people from harm/abuse. Help people to live independently. Support children who are apart from families. Help people with substance misuse. (Work mainly in social care centers/clinics)

Support worker: help people with their day-to-day living. Support people to live independently. (Work within residential care/social care centres/homes)

Care assistant: help people of all ages to carry out their day-to-day routines. Meet personal needs such as washing, toileting, dressing and feeding. Help with transport and household tasks. (Work in day care centres/residential care/ homes)

Question 7

What’s a residential care setting?

Answer 7

These are settings where people who can’t be cared for at home, or feel that they can no longer cope with living independently.

Question 8

What are domiciliary care settings?

Answer 8

Domiciliary care is also known as home nursing.
Provide care for people in their own homes.
Help people lead their daily lives by supporting their independence.
Help with shopping, cleaning and transport, etc.

Question 9

What are daycare centres?

Answer 9

These are used by older people and those with physical and learning disabilities.
They provide respite care.

Question 10

List key responsibilities of health and social care workers:

Answer 10

< Following policies and procedures in place.
< Enabling rehabilitation
< Provide personal care: washing, feeding, toileting.
< Provide equipment and adaptations to enable service users independence.
< Meeting and supporting the recovery of individuals.
< Supporting routines of service users: family life, education, employment.

Question 11

What are policies and procedures?

Answer 11

Policies: are detailed of how an organisation intends to conduct itself, providing guidelines to help with decision making.

Procedures: are a set written of instructions that outline expected and required routines that are to be followed in specific situations.

Question 12

List some policies:

Answer 12

Health& Safety policy
Equality& Diversity policy
Complaints policy
Safeguarding policy
DBS referral policy

Question 13

Name 3 legislations:

Answer 13

The Humans Right Act 1998
The Equality Act 2010
Health and Safety work Act 1974

Question 14

What sort of treatments and procedures are provided in health care:

Answer 14

< Prescribing medication
< Surgery
< Radiotherapy
< Organ transplant
< Support for lifestyle changes

Question 15

List some key terms of the responsibilities and what H&SC organisations should promote.

Answer 15

< Confidentiality
< Respect/Dignity
< Empowerment
< Communication
< Accountability
< Codes of practice
<Policies& Procedures

Question 16

What is the care value base and list some of its values.

Answer 16

The care value base consists of beliefs about the right ways to treat patients.

< Maintaining confidentiality
< Promoting Anti-discriminatory practices.
< Supporting individuals rights, dignity and safety.
< Protecting individuals from abuse.

Question 17

What legislations promote Anti-discrimination and the rights of everyone?

Answer 17

The Equality Act 2010
The Humans Right Act 1998

Question 18

Define confidentiality

Answer 18

Confidentiality is maintaining service users personal information or data private.
(Confidentiality can be breached if the service user is at risk.)

Question 19

Define what multi- disciplinary working is:

Answer 19

Multi-disciplinary working is a range of health and social care professionals working together to meet the needs of a service user/patient.

Question 20

What does multi-disciplinary working consist?

Answer 20

< It provides the best care to service users.
< A way service users, carers and advocates can be involved in the planning, decision making and support with other service providers.
< It promotes and takes a holistic approach.

Question 21

What could be the need for multi-disciplinary working?

Answer 21

< The individual may need more than one professional to help them.
< Specialists can concentrate on their own specific part of an individuals recovery/care.

Question 22

Define Holistic care:

Answer 22

Holistic refers to the treatment of the “whole person”, taking into account their mental and social factors, rather than just their conditions/illnesses.

Question 23

What do service users gain from multi-disciplinary working?

Answer 23

< Get to be involved with their care.
< Get to understand what is going on.
< Get to make their own decisions with their treatment/care.
< They get to play an active part.

Question 24

Name 5 ways that health and social care settings are monitored:

Answer 24

<Line managers
<External inspections: CQC/Ofsted
< Whistle blowing
< Service users feedback
< Criminal investigations