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HOSPITAL WORKER [10 records]

Record 1 - external organization data 2022-10-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Compartment - National Occupational Classification (NOC)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Tiroir – Classification nationale des professions (CNP)

Spanish

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Record 2 - external organization data 2022-09-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Compartment - National Occupational Classification (NOC)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Tiroir – Classification nationale des professions (CNP)

Spanish

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Record 3 2020-07-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Occupation Names (General)
  • Legal Profession: Organization
CONT

How do I apply for legal aid?... If you qualify financially and have a legal issue that we cover, we will help pay for a lawyer to represent you. You can apply by :... asking a legal aid worker, if you are in jail or a detention centre; asking a rights’ advisor or patient advocate, if you are in a hospital...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Désignations des emplois (Généralités)
  • Organisation de la profession (Droit)

Spanish

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Record 4 2018-10-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Occupation Names (General)
  • Security
  • Operations (Air Forces)
CONT

Where the death of an air raid precautions worker is attributable to war service injury or where at the time of death such worker was in receipt of a pension..., and where the estate has not sufficient assets to pay the expenses of the burial, the Minister may, if the worker was not an in-patient under treatment in a hospital operated by the Department of Veterans Affairs, direct the payment of an amount not exceeding one hundred dollars in respect of those expenses.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Désignations des emplois (Généralités)
  • Sécurité
  • Opérations (Forces aériennes)
CONT

Lorsque le décès d'un engagé de la défense passive est attribuable à une blessure de service de guerre ou que, lors du décès, cet engagé recevait une pension [...] et que l'actif de sa succession n'est pas suffisant pour acquitter les frais d'inhumation, le ministre peut, si l'engagé n'était pas hospitalisé pour traitement dans un hôpital dirigé par le ministère des Anciens combattants, prescrire le paiement d'un montant maximal de cent dollars pour de tels frais.

Spanish

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Record 5 2012-02-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Paramedical Staff
DEF

... the worker who provides the most skilled nursing care in the hospital or community and makes decisions-in consultation with the other members of the health team or independently-based on scientific, clinical and management principles.

OBS

HOHEA: Hogarth, J. Glossary of health care terminology. Copenhagen, WHO Regional Office for Europe, 1978. (Public Health in Europe, No. 4).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Personnel para-médical
DEF

Personne qui, ayant suivi des études professionnelles de base, est apte et habilitée à assumer l'ensemble des soins infirmiers que requièrent la promotion de la santé, la prévention de la maladie et les soins aux malades.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Personal paramédico
DEF

Profesional de la salud que se encarga del cuidado directo y la atención de los enfermos en el hospital o en su domicilio.

OBS

Existen muchas especialidades de la enfermería, como sanitarista, nutrición o instrumentista de cirugía.

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Record 6 2006-01-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Occupation Names (General)
  • Paramedical Staff
  • Social Services and Social Work
DEF

[Chiefly British] A hospital social worker.

OBS

The name almoner was ... used for a hospital official who interviewed prospective patients, and was later applied to the officials who were responsible for patient welfare and after care.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Désignations des emplois (Généralités)
  • Personnel para-médical
  • Services sociaux et travail social
OBS

médicosocial : Cette graphie, puisée des Rectifications de l'orthographe recommandées par le Conseil supérieur de la langue française, est attestée dans le Petit Robert (2004).

Spanish

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Record 7 2002-09-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Sociology of the Family
  • Social Problems
DEF

A parent who is at risk of abusing his children.

CONT

Hawaii's Healthy Start program, funded by the state, intervenes from day one. A case worker interviews new parents in the hospital shortly after their baby is born. The aim is to identify parents at risk of abusing their children : teen mothers, alcoholics, drug users, welfare recipients, or people who have been themselves abused, either by their own parents or their spouses.... Without intervention, some 20% of high-risk parents can be expected to mistreat their children....

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sociologie de la famille
  • Problèmes sociaux
CONT

Ce projet est destiné aux parents isolés à risque élevé (des parents d'enfants d'âge préscolaire qui ont été identifiés par les travailleurs de la protection de l'enfance comme étant particulièrement susceptibles de négliger ou de maltraiter leurs enfants).

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Sociología de la familia
  • Problemas sociales
CONT

Se refiere a los progenitores o padres adoptivos que podrían incurrir en negligencia o maltrato contra sus hijos.

OBS

Según la opinión de algunos expertos en la materia, el hecho de que una mujer primeriza haya practicado un aborto parece cambiar la relación que ésta establece con hijos de embarazos subsiguientes, ya que el dolor que esconde afecta de alguna manera a los hijos nacidos posteriormente y los hace más susceptibles al maltrato y a la negligencia de los padres.

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Record 8 1995-02-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Sociology of the Family
  • Social Problems
CONT

The best place to begin is at the beginning of a child's life. Hawaii's Healthy Start program... intervenes from day one. A case worker interviews new parents in the hospital shortly after their baby is born. The aim is to identify parents at risk of abusing their children...

CONT

We are all potential perpetrators.

OBS

"At risk" and "potential" may be applied to either the vulnerable person or to the "potentially abusive" offender. Furthermore, "at risk" may be used as an adjective (in which case it is placed before the noun and hyphenated) or as a phrase (that is placed after the noun).

Key term(s)
  • at-risk

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sociologie de la famille
  • Problèmes sociaux
OBS

Comme leur équivalent anglais «at risk», les termes français «à risques» et «susceptible de» s'appliquent aussi bien aux victimes potentielles qu'aux agresseurs en puissance.

Spanish

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Record 9 1990-09-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Occupation Names (General)
  • Paramedical Staff
CONT

The respondent found irregular employment in seasonal, temporary and labour oriented jobs as a warehouseman, dock worker, delivery man, landscaper and hospital tray carrier.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Désignations des emplois (Généralités)
  • Personnel para-médical
OBS

Tray carrier/chariot de service: Dans un hôpital ou un avion, voiture qui sert à transporter les plateaux contenant les repas, les médicaments, etc.

OBS

Tray handler-hospitals.

OBS

Préposé au service des cabarets-hôpitaux.

Spanish

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Record 10 1976-06-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Occupation Names

French

Domaine(s)
  • Désignations des emplois

Spanish

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