I have to act in the person’s best interest but instead of encouraging them to avoid risks I have to support them and enable them to taking part in activities. I have to act in the individuals best interest, keep them safe, carry out risk assessments, promote informed choices but also respect their decision and right to live their life as they choose. If the risk seems great to me I would document it and discuss the matter with my manager. Another area where duty of care dilemmas may arise are confidentiality issues. When a confidential information is shared with me and it concerns safeguarding and there is a possibility of harm or someone’s wellbeing is threathened I might have to make a decision and disclose this information.
1.2 Describe the Duty of Care which affects your own practice It is important to only carry out duties that you are competent and confident in under taking the duty and it is important that the task are in your job description and declining care work that is not. Being accountable for your own decisions and actions, following standard procedures in all aspects of work including use of resources and equipment. 2.1 Describe dilemmas that may arise between the Duty of Care and an individual’s rights. You have a duty of care for the people you support, but they also have the right to make their own decisions about actions they want to take. Sometimes there can be conflict between a person’s rights and your duty of care.
Are they merely expressing opinions or stating matters of fact? Can we really tell right from wrong? Many people would answer this by stating that what is believed to be right or wrong is essential for any discussion about our behavior. If this is the case then we could never have a meaningful discussion about morality. Ethical statements are not just about observable facts, but are often statements about what we believe should happen and so are not very easy to establish as true or false, as they are expressions of points of view not shared be everyone.
People also have the ability to think morally for themselves so morality is relative to someone’s point of view. The main point favoring the cultural relativism argument is that if there are no moral principles, then the principles can only be relative to culture. If someone were to express their opinion about the morals of a culture that they didn’t agree with, including what the culture already believed to be right, then that person would lose the argument without any question. This can be easily disproved because in one culture, not every person is going to have the same moral judgments about what is right or wrong and people can establish objective moral principles. A culture also can’t think of them as having the power to decide which is right and
According to hard determinism we are not free in the sense required for moral responsibility, and therefore, what happens cannot be affected by choices that are free in the sense. But what happens may nevertheless be caused by the decisions we chose and the choices we make. A reaction to hard determinism is that if it were true, we would have no reason to attempt to accomplish anything, to try and improve our lives because our decisions and choices would make no difference. If everything we do is pre determined then why try hard to achieve anything, if you are meant to do a certain something, it will happen, it is already determined for you, so the hard determinist would say. In the hard determinist’s judgement, this feeling of freedom is an illusion.
A person centred approach includes promoting an individuals right to choose and be independent. Risk taking (which is part of everyday life) involves individual’s making decisions. You are upholding someone’s dignity by recognising what is important to them by making sure they are aware of the risks before they carry out an activity. How does using an individuals care plan contribute to working in a person centred way? The customer you are caring for has been an active participant in creating their care plan by recognising what they can do for themselves.
1.3 You can ensure that personal attitudes or beliefs do not obstruct the quality of your work by leaving your personal opinions and judgements at the door. It is vital that you go into work with an open mind and keep in mind the fact that not everybody’s beliefs and preferences are the same as your own. You should focus on your
You would not share information about your personal life as you would with your friends. This is important as it keeps the work place professional. As with working relationships with service users the employee must ensure they stick within the boundaries set out in the employers policies. The employee must never let a relationship with a service user turn into a personal one as this would clearly infringe on the employer policies and could lead to either service user or the employee been left in a vulnerable position. 2.
Sometimes while doing you job you may come across conflicts/dilemmas beween duty of care and indiviuals rights. This may include situations where the indiviuals you are supporting may not agree with what you believe is best for them. in this situation it is best to make sure the service user is fully aware of the consequences of their choice and they have the mental capacity to understand the risk involved. it is their right as an individual to be able to make informed choices about their lives, even if we disagree. you can always seek advice from your manager or senior staff.
The working practice is such that the personal values and opinions of an individual must be kept apart from the professional values of an organisation. Firstly, it is important to think about your own values, and how they might affect your practice. The values a person holds may incline from their cultural perspective or from religious beliefs, this can create conflict. The working practice encourages and makes one aware of their personal values so they do not interfere with providing the