Month: November 2020

About 1 in 4 people experience mental health problems each year and understanding the symptoms of an individual is important. This course will make you identify when one feels anxious, stressed, low at times to offer support to someone’s mental health.

Bipolar disorder is a mental health condition that causes extreme mood swings. You will understand the direct impact this disorder has on the lives of those in your care and how to support them live a normal daily.

It will help you actively promote an individual’s continence through understanding the causes, prevention and management of continence issues. This will have a huge positive difference to the lives of the individual.

CONFIDENTIALITY working in health and social care, it’s important that you understand your duty of confidentiality. It is your duty to ensure that you respect your clients and their legal right to privacy.

Every single client who requires a health or social care service do have needs they are unable to meet themselves. This course addresses all the training needs, you require to support your clients to live life to the full.

A person’s behaviour can be defined as “challenging” if it puts them or those around them (such as their carer) at risk or leads to a poorer quality of life. It can also impact their ability to join in everyday activities. Challenging behaviour can include aggression. self-harm.

CARE PLANNING the purpose of care planning will support care workers’ roles in providing consistent care and types of support for each person based on their individual needs

EATING DISORDER are characterised by irregular eating habits and severe distress or concern about body weight or shape. Eating disturbances may include inadequate or excessive food intake which can ultimately damage an individual’s well-being.

HAND HYGIENE TRAINING It is known that hands are the most common cause of spreading infection, hence hand hygiene needs teaching in all health and social care situations.

DIVERSITY AND EQUALITY ensures promoting and supporting diversity in the workplace which is an important aspect of good people management. It encourages valuing everyone in the organisation as an individual.