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The Students' Handbook for Studying Health and Social Care: Essential Context, Knowledge and Practice Skills for Doing a Successful Degree
No full textThis book provides students with the essential context, knowledge and practice skills required to succeed in your health and social care degree.
Students doing a health and social care degree make a real difference to people’s lives every day in incredible and inspiring ways. Choosing to study health and social care gives you the opportunity to acquire a wide range of essential context, knowledge and practice skills that positively transform both your life and the lives of many others. This book uniquely presents these essential context, knowledge and practice skills in one essential place, to provide students with a comprehensive understanding of the requirements of
doing a health and social care degree.
Topics covered in the book include health and social care legislation, demographic change, children’s rights, disability, mental health, anatomy and physiology, health and social care regulation, communication skills, teamwork and leadership and reflective practice. It is an indispensable learning resource for health and social care students wishing to succeed in their egree and beyond in a wide range of both health and social care settings, as well as a wide variety of other settings, such as schools, community settings
and welfare organizations
Welcome to your health and social care degree!
No full textStudying health and social care provides the opportunity to acquire knowledge and learn skills that positively transform both your life and the lives of many others. This chapter outlines the key aims of the book in terms of its focus on providing students with the essential context, knowledge and skills of studying health and social care. It defines and brings together these themes to explain in detail why these are important to doing a successful health and social care degree. It also provides a brief outline of the structure of the book and subsequent chapters
Understanding the Importance of Culture when Working with Children, Young People and their Families
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The importance of anatomy and physiology for health and social care
No full textAnatomy and physiology include the study of basic human functions and processes, such as how we breathe, how we eat, how we walk and how we talk which enable us to live, love and learn. These functions and processes represent the essential core of health and social care, which is providing care that enables people to not only live, but to live well. It is important as a health and social care practitioner to understand these anatomy and physiology functions and processes in order to identify when they are healthy or when they are disrupted. This chapter outlines how and why an understanding of anatomy and physiology makes this possible for you as a health and social care practitioner. It outlines the meaning of anatomy and physiology, and the importance of linking anatomy and physiology together, and three specific beneficial outcomes of understanding of anatomy and physiology for health and social care
Legislation/laws guiding health and social care practice
No full textLegislation/law is comprehensive in nature, affecting all aspects of our everyday life, even if we do not realise this to be the case. As well as affecting what we do in everyday life, legislation/law also affects what we can or cannot do in practice. This means that knowing what the legislation/law is and how this affects what we can do as practitioners is very important for health and social care practitioners, and this is the focus of this chapter. The chapter starts with a discussion of what legislation/law is and provides a simple definition of legislation/law. The chapter then discusses the importance of legislation/law for health and social care, as this may not always be apparent. The chapter concludes by briefly linking ten key health and social care practice behaviours to key legislation/law. The focus is on detailing how these legislation/laws affect health and social care practice
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