The Role of the Support Worker | Health, Wellness, Illness & Disability | Working with clients and their families | Ethics | Legislation |
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What is the main focus of the health care team?
goal: to provide quality care for the client
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What is discrimination?
The unfair treatment of people on the basis of their group membership
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What is a working professional relationship?
a relationship that is established to benefit the patient
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what are ethics?
moral principles or values that guide us when deciding what is right and what is wrong, what is good and what is bad
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what is legislation?
tells you what you can and cannot do and is a body of laws that govern the behavior of a countrys resident
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What are support workers and care aids?
Unregulated health care workers
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What is holistic care?
Focusing on the whole person
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what is independence?
The state of not depending on others for control or authority
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the 4 basic principles of health care ethics
Autonomy, justice, beneficence, maleficence
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what is informed consent
the persons right to decide what will and will not be done to his or her body and who can touch his or her body
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What is Scope of Practice?
The legal limits of your role
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What is the definition of health?
A state of well-being in all dimensions of ones health
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What are ways support workers can reinforce the clients self esteem?
offer encouragement, praising successes, providing client with honest, constructive feedback in a supportive manner, helping to reevaluate a new passion.
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what is autonomy
having free choice in the decisions that affect ones life
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what is battery
touching the persons body without consent
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What is compassion
caring about anothers misfortune and suffering
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What are maslows most basic needs
oxygen, food, water, elimination, rest and shelter
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What is self-esteem?
the worth, value, or opinion one has about themselves
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what is justice
all people should be treated in a fair and equal manner?
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what is negligence ?
if you do not wipe up a spill and a client falls, you are guilty of what
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What is the acronym that discusses the main needs of patients?
Dignity, independence, preferences, privacy, and safety
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What is psychosocial health?
personality, sexuality, growth and development, and lifespan are all examples of what kind of health
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What is self-esteem?
What increases when a child begins to learn control of their body?
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what is beneficence
doing or promoting good, which should be the central focus of your work
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what is workers compensation legislation?
if you are injured at work which legislation will determine how you will be financially compensated?
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