Medications Essay

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Unit 3 : Promote Equality and Inclusion in Health and Social Care. 1.1 Explain what is meant by: Diversity, Equality & Inclusion. • Diversity is about differences between people and groups in the society. Example at my workplace, service users could come from various culture, different nationality, religion, age, gender, social class backgrounds. • Equality is about everyone being equal but not necessarily treating everyone the same. For example. At my work, I am encouraged to promote my service user his rights, give him choices and opportunities to live his life in response to his need. And with another service user, I am also encouraged to do the same but the treatment could be different as not everybody has the same abilities to do the same. Some might need more help than others. • Inclusion is about ensuring that there are no barriers that would exclude people or make it difficult for them to fully participate in the society. For example, in the planning, my service user will always be at the centre of the planning when I want to support him. 1.2 Describe the potential effects of discrimination. Discrimination is when one is been treated less favourably than others and has most of the times damaging effect. It could make the person to have low self-esteem and reduce their ability to develop and maintain a sense of identity. This could lead that the person will not be able to express them self well and experience anger, humiliation, frustration and a feeling of hopelessness. 1.3 Explain how inclusive practice promotes equality and supports diversity. Inclusive promotes equality as people must be included in all aspects of life and not excluded because of an illness or a disability. It support diversity in the sense we try to meet the needs of our service users with various learning disabilities. For example, my service user house was fitted to meet
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