Health and Social Care - Unit 2 with
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Doctors - GP ✅✅They are the first (primary) point of contact when someone is ill.
Carry out simple surgical procedures and preventative care and health education for
service users. Based in health centres and work as part of a multidisciplinary team. Can
refer a service user to a specialist at a hospital or to other care professionals for
assessment or treatment etc.
Responsibilities of a doctor (GP) ✅✅Diagnose illnesses and ailments
Discuss and agree treatment plans
Prescribe medications and treatments
Monitor the impact of treatments
Deliver vaccination programs, programs on smoking, etc.
Hospital doctors (consultants) ✅✅Senior, hospital based doctors who specialise in a
certain field of medicine and manage complex cases.
Cardiologists - heart disease
Psychiatrists - mental health
Oncologists - cancer
Pediatricians - children
Geriatricians - older people
Nurses ✅✅Largest group of NHS workers
Adult nurses, mental health nurses, children nurses, learning disability nurses, district
nurses, neontal nurses, health visitors nurses, practice nurses, school nurses
Midwives ✅✅Support women through all stages of pregnancy
Provide antenatal (before) and postnatal (after) care
Help families to prepare / deliver babies
Health care assistants ✅✅Sometimes known as nursing assistants or auxiliary
nurses. Works with nurses in all types of settings.
Duties include; taking/recording temperatures and pulses, weighing and recording
patients weights, taking patients to the toilet, making beds, washing/dressing patients,
serving meals and helping patients to eat.
Social workers ✅✅Provide care for all ages. Aim to safeguard everyone and help
them to live independent lives.Adult services - disabilities, mental health, learning
difficulties. Child services - protect children from abuse and harm.
, Occupational therapists ✅✅Work with people of all ages who have difficulty in
carrying out the practical routines of daily life. Help people to live independent lives.
Youth Workers ✅✅Work with people between the ages of 11-15. Help people to
reach their full potential and become responsible member of society.
Run health campaigns, organise activities and projects, run sports teams, manage
youth community projects, work with parents to support the development of children.
Care assistants ✅✅Provide practical help and support for people who struggle with
everyday activities.
Help with personal daily care, general household tasks, paying bills and writing letters
and liaising with other health care professionals
Care managers ✅✅They manage the provision of residential care for; adults/young
adults with learning difficulties, older people in residential/nursing homes, people in
supported housing, people receiving hospice care.
Responsible for a care setting running and functioning.
Support workers ✅✅Linked closely to a healthcare or nursing assistant role. Work
alongside lots of different professionals.
Examples of policies ✅✅Health and safety, equality and diversity, medication,
safeguarding, disclosure and barring service (DBS) refferal, complaints, death of a
resident.
Prescribing medication ✅✅A doctors role (traditionally) however some nurses can
prescribe medication (if they have had extra training). Some other professionals can
prescribe medication, e.g. dentist
Surgery ✅✅Health care workers in the community play a major role in helping
patients to recover, e.g. visits, assessments, changing dressings.
Radiotherapy ✅✅High-energy radiation (radiotherapists). Patients may need follow
up support from a GP to promote healing.
Organ transplant ✅✅Patients may need support from a counsellor. Patients need to
be prepared mentally and physically
Support for lifestyle changes ✅✅Counselling
Self-help groups
GP's
Local nurses
Specialist agencies ✅✅Age UK
correct answers provided
Doctors - GP ✅✅They are the first (primary) point of contact when someone is ill.
Carry out simple surgical procedures and preventative care and health education for
service users. Based in health centres and work as part of a multidisciplinary team. Can
refer a service user to a specialist at a hospital or to other care professionals for
assessment or treatment etc.
Responsibilities of a doctor (GP) ✅✅Diagnose illnesses and ailments
Discuss and agree treatment plans
Prescribe medications and treatments
Monitor the impact of treatments
Deliver vaccination programs, programs on smoking, etc.
Hospital doctors (consultants) ✅✅Senior, hospital based doctors who specialise in a
certain field of medicine and manage complex cases.
Cardiologists - heart disease
Psychiatrists - mental health
Oncologists - cancer
Pediatricians - children
Geriatricians - older people
Nurses ✅✅Largest group of NHS workers
Adult nurses, mental health nurses, children nurses, learning disability nurses, district
nurses, neontal nurses, health visitors nurses, practice nurses, school nurses
Midwives ✅✅Support women through all stages of pregnancy
Provide antenatal (before) and postnatal (after) care
Help families to prepare / deliver babies
Health care assistants ✅✅Sometimes known as nursing assistants or auxiliary
nurses. Works with nurses in all types of settings.
Duties include; taking/recording temperatures and pulses, weighing and recording
patients weights, taking patients to the toilet, making beds, washing/dressing patients,
serving meals and helping patients to eat.
Social workers ✅✅Provide care for all ages. Aim to safeguard everyone and help
them to live independent lives.Adult services - disabilities, mental health, learning
difficulties. Child services - protect children from abuse and harm.
, Occupational therapists ✅✅Work with people of all ages who have difficulty in
carrying out the practical routines of daily life. Help people to live independent lives.
Youth Workers ✅✅Work with people between the ages of 11-15. Help people to
reach their full potential and become responsible member of society.
Run health campaigns, organise activities and projects, run sports teams, manage
youth community projects, work with parents to support the development of children.
Care assistants ✅✅Provide practical help and support for people who struggle with
everyday activities.
Help with personal daily care, general household tasks, paying bills and writing letters
and liaising with other health care professionals
Care managers ✅✅They manage the provision of residential care for; adults/young
adults with learning difficulties, older people in residential/nursing homes, people in
supported housing, people receiving hospice care.
Responsible for a care setting running and functioning.
Support workers ✅✅Linked closely to a healthcare or nursing assistant role. Work
alongside lots of different professionals.
Examples of policies ✅✅Health and safety, equality and diversity, medication,
safeguarding, disclosure and barring service (DBS) refferal, complaints, death of a
resident.
Prescribing medication ✅✅A doctors role (traditionally) however some nurses can
prescribe medication (if they have had extra training). Some other professionals can
prescribe medication, e.g. dentist
Surgery ✅✅Health care workers in the community play a major role in helping
patients to recover, e.g. visits, assessments, changing dressings.
Radiotherapy ✅✅High-energy radiation (radiotherapists). Patients may need follow
up support from a GP to promote healing.
Organ transplant ✅✅Patients may need support from a counsellor. Patients need to
be prepared mentally and physically
Support for lifestyle changes ✅✅Counselling
Self-help groups
GP's
Local nurses
Specialist agencies ✅✅Age UK
