Explain what it means to have a duty of care in your own work role Put simply, having a duty of care means being responsible for your individual's health, safety and well-being. Examples include personal care, medication administration, feeding, shopping, and other physical activities. Explain how the duty of care relates to the duty of candour.The understanding of the duty of care can help a support worker to fulfill the requirements of the duty of candour. It is the duty of care that persuades a support worker to admit their adversative action and leads them to perform their duty of candour by confessing the mistake before the individual being supported. Explain how duty of care contributes to the safeguarding and protecting of individuals right to live in safety and be free from abuse and improper treatment. It helps to ensure that …show more content…
Sometimes the duty to safeguard an individual's well-being may come into direct conflict with an individual's right to make choices of their own free will. It is likely that an individual you care for may make decisions that will have a negative effect on them. However, it is the duty of the support staff to explain the reason and importance of such a duty of care to the individual being supported. Explain how to work effectively with individuals and others to address conflicts and dilemmas related to duty of care in order to achieve positive outcomes for individuals. This can be done by asking why they made their decision, explaining the risks involved so that they can make an informed decision. Their care plan also has to be duly followed with the completion of a risk assessment form. Individuals we support should also be helped to minimize some potential risks, after which advice can be sought from the manager. Outline where to access additional support and advice about addressing conflicts and dilemmas in a care
Consent is necessary from everyone, not only those who can verbalise his or her needs. It is important to find out the persons communication needs so that they can be involved in discussions around their needs and preferences. My duty of care is to ensure that choices are given, and that appropriate support is obtained where there is lack of capacity is the decision is complex and the individual cannot consent. This may be from families or next of kin or using advocates to ensure that the client’s best interests are maintained. There may be past events or requests that could indicate the client’s preferences, and these must be considered when choices have to be made by others. Any preferences should be recorded on care plans and shared with relevant others to be able to determine the best interests of the person. Decisions should also be put off until the client is able to make their own choices where possible and not taken on their behalf through assuming we know
The issue I Journaled about in the course is to reduce falls among the elderly in long term care. In writing my journals one of my focuses is that patient’s dignity can destroyed after falling multiple times by diminishing their independence. Our responsibility as nurses is to inform patients of choices, options for selection, which is why I suggested that patients should be given as much independence as possible with close supervision, and to the best of our ability, inform the patient of the consequences of the choices. Another ethical principle the book explained about is the respect for a person, it is the patients right to choose how they go along with their daily living in long-term care. They can choose not to engage in activity that
What ethical principles were impacted? What was the ethical duty of care to Lewis? How was it breached?
Why is it so important that healthcare executives adhere to a professional code of ethics?
This assignment will identify and evaluate the legal and ethical issues within the health and social care for elderly people with dementia and living in residential homes. It will address the difference between the legal and ethical issues and the impact it has on the person suffering from the disease, their family and the role that the professionals have in decision making for the individual’s wellbeing.
The individual will need to be encouraged to make decisions about the care they receive and the type of life they want to live and also ensure that their families are part of the decision making process.
The procedure of protecting clients, patients and colleagues from harm. The benefits of following a person centred approach in the use of health and social care practice. Ethical dilemmas and conflicts that may arise when providing care. Supporting and protection to users of health and social care practice. The implementation of policies, legislation regulation and code of practice which is relevant to own work in health and social care. How local policies and procedures can develop in accordance with national and policy requirements. The impact of policy, legislation, regulation, and code of practice on organisational policy and
Safeguarding in the health and social care context is very important in ensuring the safety and wellbeing of users of the service. Care providers have the duty of care to their users to promote diversity, person centred care, and independence. Abuse could happen in the adult and social care. It could either be a deliberate action or over complacency in the part of carers. This is why safeguarding has become necessary as a regulatory body to safeguard the interest of the vulnerable groups from abuse. It aims at eradicating abuse from the services. This essay will attempt to educate its audience
A care relationship is special and requires skill, trust and understanding. This essay will elaborate how the quality of that relationship affects the quality of the care given and the experiences felt in receiving care. These different relationships will depend on the type of care given, who the care is given by and what sort of previous existing relationship there was to begin with. For a good care relationship to work it needs to follow the 5 K101 principles of care practice which are 'support people in maximising their potential','support people in having a voice and being heard','respect people's beliefs and preferences','support people's rights to appropriate services' and 'respect people's privacy and right to confidentiality'.(K101,Unit 4,p.183). If all of these needs are met a far exceptional quality of relationship between the carer and care receiver will be achieved.
Duty of care is legal obligation to ensure the well-being of a service user, safeguard service users from harm while they are in your care.
When dealing with an ethical dilemma, social workers usually reference back to Reamers 7-step process to help with ethical decision-making. In the given case study, we meet Lori a bright fourteen-year-old who is smart, involved in school activities, and sports. She has had a non-normative impacted life since she was young, such as her mother dying of breast cancer and father dying as well. She has no immediate family and was lucky enough to be placed in a foster home with a family who loves her and wants the best for her.
One of the five key principles of care practice is to ‘Support people in having a voice and being heard,’ (K101, Unit 4, p.183). The key principles are linked to the National Occupational Standards for ‘Health and Social Care’. They are a means of establishing and maintaining good care practice. Relationships based on trust and respect should be developed between care receivers and care givers, thus promoting confidence whilst discussing personal matters without fear of reprisal and discrimination.
Ethical Issues in Social Work I will provide practical help for new social workers to help them understand and deal with ethical issues and dilemmas which they will face. There are many ethical issues which are important to social work, but I feel that these are all covered by the care value base. The care value base Was devised by the care sector consortium in 1992, this was so that the workers in health and social care had a common set of values and principles which they would all adhere to. It is important because for the first time the social care sector had a clear set of guidelines from which ethical judgements could be made. The care value base is divided into 5 elements - The care value base covers - Equality and Diversity - Rights and responsibilities - Confidentiality - Promoting anti Discrimination - Effective communication Equality and Diversity Carers must value diversity themselves before they can effectively care for the different races, religions and differently abled people they will come across in their caring profession.
An ethical dilemma is defined as a mental state when the nurse has to make a choice between the options and choices that he or she has at her disposal. The choice is a crucial task as the opting of the step will subsequently determine the health status of the concerned patient, hence it requires a great deal of wisdom along with proper medical and health training before any such step is opted as it is a matter of life and death. Strong emphasis should therefore be on the acquisition of proper knowledge and skills so that nurses do posses the autonomy to interact with patients regarding ethical issues involved in health care affairs and address them efficiently. It is normally argued that nurses are not provided sufficient authority to consult and address their patients on a more communicative or interactive level as a result of which they are often trapped in predicaments where their treatments of action and their personal beliefs create a conflict with the health interests of the patient. (Timby, 2008)
Duty of care refers to the circumstances and relationships which the law recognizes as giving rise to a legal duty to take care. The first major case in the development of the ‘duty of care test’ was that of Donoghue v Stevenson [1932].