Care Values

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This section is all about care values. Also I will be using examples and explaining how my care workers implement the care values when caring for my chosen service user. I will be using primary and secondary research. The 5 main care settings are: Acknowledging personal beliefs and identity, anti- discriminatory practise, maintaining confidentiality of information, promoting effective communication and relationships and promoting and supporting an individual rights to dignity, independence, health and safety. Definition of care values: The care value base is a range of standards for health and social care. It is designed to guide the practise of professionals working in this area. The overall aim of the standards is to improve client’s quality …show more content…

-wearing gloves before treating a paitent. -wearing safety goggles in science. -fire drills. Independence. Services should always try to give the service users choice. With the right information and care the service user can still be in control of any decisions that have to be made. This empowers the service user and allows them independence. Dignity. Treating people with dignity is all about treating people with respect. Every consideration must be given to maintaining self-respect and privacy e.g. -curtains around people when they are underdressing. -private areas to speak in. -eye contact. -explaining treatments in a way we understand. I spoke to the nursery nurse about care values and how important they are and she said: Trust between the worker and the service user is hugely important. Workers often gather lots of information on those they work with. Protecting this information (personal details) is crucial. Confidently means not giving information about clients to anyone else, unless they have a good reason to do so. Sometimes it is necessary to breach (break) confidentiality. The 3 main reasons for this …show more content…

When you work with adults, children or people with additional needs you need to be able to explain things clearly. You also need to be able to speak to different abilities and age ranges. Listening and body language is an important part of communication. Braille and sign language are also used. This fits into the care services acknowledging personal beliefs and identity and also it could fit into promoting and supporting an individual rights to dignity, independence and health and safety. We are all different, for example we like different books, different music and different food. Some individuals may be different in their beliefs and in their customs, therefore professional care workers need to make sure they do not discriminate against those who have different values or beliefs to themselves. Everyone has the right to be treated equally regardless of ability, disability, gender or colour of skin. It is against the law to discriminate in this way. A nursery nurse has care values to make sure that the children are safe and happy. A caretaker has care values to make sure that everyone is safe and also make sure that no one has an

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