Posted: September 14th, 2015

Empowering users in health and social care

Empowering users in health and social care

Order Description

Task 3: LO3: Understand the responsibility of managing and monitoring risks in health and social care settings. (recommended word up to 700 report)
Scenario
On day 3 of the induction your manager is concerned that some of the new recruits appear unaware of the need to manage and monitor potential risks to service users within the setting. The manager has asked you to the produce a report for this phase of the induction.
What you must do
Use a case study to:
3.1. identify the extent to which individuals are at risk of harm.

Example Risk: from Harm; from Abuse; failure to protect

3.2. analyse the effectiveness of policies, procedures and managerial approach within a health or social care setting for promoting the management of risks.

example
Effective management of risk ; relevant legislation; acceptable and unacceptable risks; protection from unacceptable risk; national service standards; assessing and recording risk. complaints procedure; leadership style, whistleblowing policy.

PLEASE USE A CASE STUDY FROM A RESIDENTIAL SETTING TO IDENTIFY THE EXTENT TO WHICH INDIVIDUALS ARE AT RISK OF HARM

PLEASE UK SOURCE/ REFERENCE