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Unit 2: Principles Of Health And Social Care Practice

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Maria Victoria Elton Student No.: 10086919

principles of health and social care practice
UNIT 2

Task 1
1.1
Principles are guidelines to be followed and there are five principles of support in health and social care. It is used to ensure that clients received the adequate care they need.
By promoting anti-discriminatory practice, we ensure that patients and health workers are treated appropriately. This is based on the Equality Act (2010), that states all individual be treated equally and valued for their ethnicity, language, culture and belief.
By promoting and supporting individual rights of an individual, we give our client empowerment to decide how they want to be cared for. According to the guideline by the Human Rights Act (1998), …show more content…

As a volunteer at Reaching Out East, I try to understand the world from the client’s perspective and promote their own perception of themselves and by not letting my personal preferences be in the way on promoting their individuality. Individuals should always be treated with dignity. As a support worker, I will knock on the client’s door before entering and carry out personal care privately behind closed doors. I will avoid disturbing the client when they are engaged in their own interest.
It is my responsibility to the client to provide care and to ensure that their needs are addressed with care. I practise care with respect to individuals’ best interests, this involves protecting clients from any harm or abuse that may transpire and preventing acts that could result in injury. My duty is to safely and effectively carry out working attitude that reflects on Reaching Out policies and procedures (Reaching Out East, …show more content…

Ethics drive our behaviour while the law reflects ethics (Nisselle, 2013). Ethics has four pillars: Autonomy is respecting the patient’s right to self-determination; Beneficence, as a care worker my first duty is to act in the best interests of my service user; Non-Maleficence, a care giver must minimize or avoid causing harm to the client and lastly is Justice, where care giver should treat all clients equally and fairly (Nisselle, 2013).
In this case, Walter, 80 years old needs help in taking his medication. He gets adamant on not taking his medicines. This is an ethical dilemma for me, my personal values say that he should drink it whether he likes it or not because he needs it for his health, but it will be of breach on his individual rights. Hence, I asked him if there is a reason why he cannot take his medication, and he said that tablets hurt his throat. I at once reported this to my line manager and requested the GP if possible to change his medicinal tablet to a easy to swallow capsule or in liquid form. The request was granted and since then, I never had a problem with Walter taking his

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