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Justify Responses to a Particular Incident or Emergency in a Health or Social Care Setting.

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Ravandeep Kaur (Group B) Unit 3: Health, safety and security in health and social care.

D2: Justify responses to a particular incident or emergency in a health or social care setting. In my P4, I talked about 4 different incidents and emergencies that could occur in a health and social care setting such as a hospital and what the priorities and responses would be in each scenario. I will now be justifying why the responses I chose would be the most satisfactory and effective for each incident and emergency. The first emergency I will be talking about is ‘fire’, the responses I listed for this emergency included, doing a risk assessment to figure out how the fire may …show more content…

The first incident I talked about in P4 was suspected or actual abuse, the responses I listed for this incident include first and foremost keeping and maintaining the dignity of the victim as they are your main priority. This is the most effective and satisfactory response for this type of incident because maintaining the dignity of the service user allows them to stay confident regardless of the situation they’ve been in. This would help medical professionals and individuals from higher authorities figure out more about the incident if the victim is more willing to share information and details which can help catch the individual(s) at fault and prevent this from happening again, but this can only happen if the service user is helped to a successful road to recovery after their
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Ravandeep Kaur (Group B) Unit 3: Health, safety and security in health and social care.

incident. The last incident I talked about was the situation in which a child goes missing. For this incident I chose the following responses to be the most appropriate; figuring out how this incident managed to take place in the first place and what should be done to insure this doesn’t happen again, or to minimise the risk of this

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