Duty of care affects a social care worker by prompting the independence of the service user follow practice and procedures designed to keep you and others safe from violent and abusive behaviour at work. Complying with employer’s health and safety polices help service users and carers to make complaints. Aiii) what having duty a duty of care means for a care giving organisation. To help service users remember that we are not here to stop them from doing what they want to do it is about making sure service users have information about risk assess risks. If service users are happy we will get more referrals and good reports from CQC.
If you don’t know how to speak to the patient it will make them feel as if they are not being heard. Which is not good for the physicians business as well as your position. Medical Assistants should respect their patients and do their best to preserve their dignity. This means respecting their privacy whenever possible. Medical Assistants should have a friendly, pleasant personality, and should work to put patients at ease and calm their fears.
Communication is important... communication may involve interpreters and translators. Using a trained interpreter, and not a family member, is recommended. When family members are upset it is difficult to absorb information. Listening is also a communication tool. To provide competent health care means to truly listen to the patient and the family to learn about the patient's beliefs of health and illness.
unit 33 understanding constructive feed back in health and social care 2.1Explain how people may react and respond to receiving constructive feedback People may react in different ways to constructive feedback, some people may take it on board and use it to improve better work practice, where as others may take offence and feel they are being patronised. Giving and receiving feedback is good, as it can help you work and develop as a team. You might see staff bending over a bed to give personal care instead of raising the bed to a suitable height, so you are not bending over the service user. I would explain to the staff on the importance of raising the bed, as this can cause back injury to them. You can use constructive feed back to build on use it as a tool not a negative.
Doctors – If we take a client to the doctors it is essential that we are able to inform the doctor of any relevant information required otherwise this may result in a misdiagnosis. Some clients are unable to communicate very well so we must first understand their problem so that we can convey this on their behalf. 1.2 Explain how communication affects all relationships in an adult social care setting. Communication can lead to good or poor service within a care setting. Good communication with clients encourages participation in activities therefore promoting equality within the care setting.
Unit 2, equality, diversity and rights in health and social care D1- Evaluate the influence of a recent initiative in promoting anti-discriminatory practice. Like everything the disability discrimination act has its positive out comes and its negatives. Some of the positives that come out of the disability discrimination act has it that it ensures that people with disabilities have a civil right that will protect from form any form of discrimination because of there disability. From this it will then encourage other organisations and health authorities to overcome any barriers that they have with people who have disabilities and make the adjustments so the individual with the disabilities can fully access the establishment. Another positive that comes out of the disability act is that one of its aims is to give an equal opportunity for people who have a disability, this will then be getting rid of any discrimination towards them on a whole.
These standards give me something to measure my practice against and help me to improve myself where possible. 1.4 Describe how own values, belief systems and experiences may affect working practice. It is true that person’s own beliefs and experiences can affect working practice or affect my role a healthcare worker. However, as a professional health care worker, it is part of my responsibilities to treat all service users’ equality and never allow my
The ethics of the ordinary is just as much a part of health care ethics as the ethics of the extraordinary. For the residents, the small decisions of daily life set the boundaries of his or her moral universe. The rights of individuals to live their lives as they wish must frequently be balanced against the need to maintain and enhance the interest of other, cognitively impaired residents who are not able to make choices about their own well- being. Individual choice often runs up against concerns for safety, efficiency, and even legal ability for injuries. Nursing home administrators, Abuse and Neglect 3
Euthanasia is a broad term for the practice of taking the life of a suffering hopelessly ill patient to eliminate the pain from their life. Many people believe it is a legitimate way of ending pain and avoid the weakness and mental confusion that comes with illnesses. Euthanasia would decrease and prevent patients suffering through extreme physical and emotional pain with no advances in medicine or technology to achieve a cure. It supports legal rights and equality rights in the charter of rights and freedoms that have been ruled against by assisted suicide in the criminal code. As well provide people with the help they want and need among a variety of options, including palliative care and physician-assisted suicide, which actually leads to
They can also be used as a basis for measuring quality of care, so provided the quality is good enough, both can be protected against unfair claims. Enforcing non-discriminatory practices and employer and employee responsibilities: both the employer and employee know their responsibilities as the guidelines make it clear what is expected of both of them. Helping avoid litigation and deregistration: carers want to avoid being sued or their institutions ahving their licence removed because for example, they are not providing the required quality of care. The guidelines can be used as a basis for measuring the quality of care prived. Safeguarding: by having clear guidelines which support non-discriminatory practice, both carers and service users are safeguarded against possible injury or abuse.