Each person should be able to identify the importance of gender, age, race, sexuality, beliefs, ethnicity, disability, education, sexual orientation, backgrounds, skin colour and language. Another important thing whilst working in health and social care is as a staff member you should be able to recognise people that are mistreated. With these things followed it shows the dedication and awareness to each client and allows them to feel valued and also respected. There are laws in place to ensure that every individual is treated equally this includes organisations having equality policies to reinforce the concept. Equality: Equality overall is about fairness which means making judgements from discrimination it is also about natural justice which is basic/fundamental judicial extended to a person with rights at issue, it is also about being impartial and reasonable which means showing lack of favours and being liable to give a account of one’s actions.
Unit 303 Principles of diversity, equality and inclusion in adult social care settings. Outcome 1 – Understand the importance of diversity, equality and inclusion. 1.1 Explain what is meant by: Diversity – is about difference and its value is the richness and variety that different people bring to society. * Appearance * Gender * Race * Culture * Ability * Talent * Beliefs Equality – is ensuring individuals or groups of individuals are treated fairly and equally and no less favourably, specific to their needs, including areas of race, gender, disability, religion or belief or sexual orientation and age. Inclusion – involves making the individual the centre of their life.
U N I T 7 1. Explain how and why person-centered values must influence all aspects of health and social-care work It is very important that we as care workers apply person-centered values in every aspect of the work we do. Some of the key values include: -Treating people as individuals. That is very important, because people we support they have their likes, dislikes, strength and personality. -Supporting people to exercise their rights-the rights of people are protected by law and in particular by the Human Rights Act 1998.Sixteen basic human rights have been incorporated into UK law.
In England, the Code of Conduct for Healthcare Support Workers and Adult Social Care Workers is overseen by Skills for Health and Skills for Care. www.skillsforhealth.org.uk/code-of-conduct The Code of Conduct for Healthcare Support Workers and Adult Social Care Workers includes the following principles: Be accountable by making sure you can answer for your actions or omissions Promote and uphold the privacy, dignity, rights, health and wellbeing of people who use health and social care services and their carers at all times Work in collaboration with your colleagues to ensure the delivery of high quality, safe and compassionate healthcare, care and support Communicate in an open, and effective way to promote the health, safety and wellbeing of people who use health and social care services and their carers Respect a person’s right to confidentiality. THE CARE CERTIFICATE WORKBOOK STANDARD 4 5 Strive to improve the quality of healthcare, care and support through
Samuel Ward TMA02 Part A PI Number C3035856 What care services are available to people with long term health conditions, and why is it important that these services should take into account individuals sensitivities and circumstances? Base your argument on either the Ann and Angus or Anwar Malik case study in Block 1. This essay will consider what care services are available to people with long term health conditions, and why is it important that these services should take into account individuals sensitivities and circumstances. The example of Anwar Malik from the course will be used. (K101 An Introduction to Health & Social Care: Who Cares?
Growing Old Gracefully In a health and social care environment equality diversity and rights are essential to ensure everyone is grown to having rights and has the right to be treated equally no matter their race age or sex and also to be accepted and respected. Human rights belong to all people without discrimination. They consist of key principles such as dignity, respect, autonomy and equal treatment. Human rights are often expressed and guaranteed by sources of international law such as the European Convention on Human Rights. However, research has shown that there are serious cases of human rights violations of older people in the UK, such as discrimination, abuse, neglect, and demeaning treatment.
Heritage assessment offers an affirmative holistic structure for measurement and provision for racially proficient care. Health tradition evaluation form visualizes health as “the state of equilibrium inside the body, mind, and spirit, and with the family, community, and the powers of the natural world (Spector, 2004b). It helps nurses detect one’s classification with hereditary traditions. At first, nurses need to understand their own beliefs in order to respect each individual’s wishes to facilitate communication that can lead to healing process. Nurses intermingle with people from diverse branch of the world with a mixture of civilizing practices, so cultural alertness seems essential in creating a patient-nurse relationship during the interview phase of the health assessment, initial step of the nursing process.
For this task I have been asked to describe how anti-discriminatory practise is promoted in health and social care settings, this meaning action taken to prevent discrimination against people on the grounds of race, class, gender, disability etc. anti-discrimination practise promotes equality by introducing anti-discrimination policies in the work place. It is important that health care workers promote equality, value diversity and respect the rights of service users always putting the service user at the heart of the service provision. This meaning that the service user’s individual needs will be meet and achieved . Care workers, also need to have an understanding of what it would be like to use the services, with this all the service
Unit 2: Equality, Diversity and Rights in Health and Social Care P1 What are Equality, Diversity and Rights... What are Equality, Diversity and Rights... By Jordan Lucy Fitt 194864, Tutor: Claire O’Connell Contents 1) Title Page 2) Contents 3) Introduction 4-5) Equality, Diversity and Rights 5) Rights 6) Overt and Covert Discrimination 6-7) Stereotyping and labelling 7) Beliefs and Values 8) Abuse and Vulnerability 9-10) Empowerment, Independence and Interdependence 10) Racism 10-11) Sexism and Homophobia 11-13) Benefits of Diversity 13-15) Individual rights of users 16) Conclusion 17-18) Bibliography
Unit 303 Promote Equality and Inclusion in health social care or children and young people’s settings Q1. Define the following terms in your own words * Equality Equality is ensuring individuals or groups of individuals are treated fairly and equally and no less favourably, specific to their needs, including areas of race, gender, disability, religion or belief, sexual orientation and age. * Diversity It means understanding that each individual is unique, and recognizing our individual differences. * Inclusion Mean’s to include everyone fairly and as individual no matter what their needs may be. * Discrimination Is the unequal treatment of individuals, usually on the basis of gender, race, age, religion or disability.