Unit 2 Equality Diversity And Rights In Health And Social Care

Reflection Unit 2 Equality, Diversity and Rights in Health and Social Care
Assignment A: Concepts and discriminatory and anti- discriminatory practise
Name: saba mahmood
P1 Explain the concepts of equality, diversity and rights
I believe equality means every individual should be treated and given the same attention no matter who they are. No individual should be discriminated due to their disability. The equality act came into effect in October 2010. This is a law which protects people from being treated differently because of their disability. Equality in health care is ensuring everyone has an access to medical care despite who they are. Equality is about creating a fairer society where everyone regardless of who they are has a chance to fulfil their potential. By getting rid of prejudice and discrimination, the NHS can now distribute services that are personal, fair and diverse society which is healthier and happier.

In my opinion I believe Diversity means every individual should be treated and spoken to with respect they should not get discriminated due to their race or culture; everyone should be accepted regardless of who they are. This also means everyone should get the same medical care no individual should be treated differently because of their race

or colour everyone has a right to be treated equally and the same.

Rights are made by the Government, everyone has right this gives every individual a chance to participate and do what they want without feeling unwanted. Bringing this back to health care we all have rights to medical treatment. Therefore no one will be treated differently in a hospital or doctors because if they are they would be breaking the law. everyone should have a right to a good service which means everyone should have access to a hospital, doctors dentist etc.

P2 Describe discriminatory practise linked to health and care settings
e.g. infringement of rights link to case study
infringement of rights is breaking the law of rights.every individual has a right to access medical treatment, if they are not given the attention they need they can report the incident as this would be going against the law if two individuals are being treated differently due to thier race or colour. i have written a incident below which took place regarding discriminatory practises.
Client A is a nurse at City Hospital Birmingham. On Monday 14th September 2015 there was a serious road accident. Two female patients were rushed in. Client A the nurse was asked to assess their physical conditions. One of the ladies was Client B who was an old Asian lady and Client C was a young Christian girl. Client B was badly injured, her shoulder was dislocated as well as having many cuts and bruises to the face, Client C had a few scratches on her face. Instead of assessing Client B. Client A spoke in a rude manner and said ' there's no time to look at your injury, you will have to wait'. Client A went straight to Client B to assess her needs. Upon seeing this Client B got very emotional and frustrated and went to report this incident.

P3 Describe the potential effects of the discriminatory practise on those who access the health and social care services.
e.g. marginalisation link to a case study

The incident had left Client B with low self-esteem and very upset.

She felt worthless and depressed, by feeling this way this could impact her recovery especially because she is an old lady. As we may know this could have also left Client B feeling marginalised. marginalised is treating people differently because of who they are. Client A who is the nurse has been treating two individuals differently, she has not given both the patients the same level of treatment which may jeopardise Client B's health and well-being, and this is known as covert abuse of power. Client A has used prejudice against Client B, the nurse thought negatively about Client B, this could affect Client B's self-esteem and

confidence.

M1 Outline the 3 discriminatory practises. Then link then to your case study. Link in an existing Act to support this. Also refer to the keywords mentioned in P2/P3

Finally, I will be discussing 3 significant points which are Sexism, Ageism and Racism. Sexism is discriminating an individual as a result of their sex for example treating two individuals differently due to their sex for example if a male and female wanted a job and the male had only goten the job because he was a male this is called sexism. the male is being favouratised beause they company may beleive the male have a better ability than the female. Discriminating is treating people differently due to their race, age, sex etc. Ageism is discriminating individuals because of their age, this could have a negative impact on the individual who is treated differently due to his/her age for example if two people had applied for a job one of the individual was a old lady and the other individual was a young lady but the young lady got the job because she was is young this would be classed as ageism, the old lady had been discriminated due to her age. Lastly Racism is discriminating an individual because of their race.

Bringing this back to the incident which took place the act that would fit perfectly with this is the Race Relation Act (2000), this act is all about racism and how people shouldn’t be discriminated due to their skin colour. This incident also involves ageism; due to the fact the Asian lady was quiet old she was being treated differently from the young girl. Client A broke the Equality Act 2010, Client B has a right to access medical care no matter what her colour, appearance or beliefs are. Client A did not allow this to happen