Dental Nursing 5234: Unit 302 Safeguarding Project
Research and explain what safeguarding is.
Safeguarding is system that is protecting child or vulnerable adult from anything that can hurt them. There are many forms of harm connected with safeguarding such: poor access to health care; not been treated the same way as others; been abused or neglected, impairment of the health, maltreatment or impairment of the development.
The aim of the safeguarding is communication between people who are in contact with children or vulnerable adults and those who have power to help in the case something is going wrong.
Safeguarding is mainly focusing on two main groups:
a) Children
Is practically anyone under age of 18 years.
b) Vulnerable adults
Are those
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Our little practise is in the retirement town of north-west Cumbria. Its sleepy town that sprung in the life for few weeks during summer so usually the most exiting case is if someone has toothache on the holidays. But lately there was two cases of safeguarding.
1) Dentist neglecting patients- this case haven’t happened directly in our surgery. We know about it because our manager is also manager in another practice. The dentist used to work for our manager practice for many years and people loved her and trusted her. So when she decided to look for job somewhere else, many people had followed her. But new dentist starts soon finding, that many x-rays (even couple of years old ones) showed clear signs of decay, but they never been restored or charted.
The case is in the beginning and there is no further development.
2) The child neglect- there was case few months ago when the mother brought her daughter to dentist for emergency appointment with pain. Her daughter was given antibiotic and mum was advice bring the daughter for proper exam as she miss last two. Mother doesn’t seem to be bother about that and (we found this later) the appointment was cancelled. Few weeks later she was back with her daughter for another emergency appointment. The dentist read in notes about missed appointments and took his time with exam to find out why the patient didn’t