This assignment is the Unit 7 Principles of Safe Practice applied in a selected Health and Social Care setting. This assignment is written in a distinction style and includes all of task 1 (P1, P2, M1 and D1) in which I have achieved a distinction due to this assignment. It’s very well written an...
P1 Explain the implications of duty of care in a selected health or social
care setting.
In this assignment I will be explaining what a duty of care is in a health and
social care setting, this health and social setting will be the Merryvale
residence. This case study will be linked with the implications of duty or
care and explanations to why the duty of care is important and must be used
in health and social care settings.
Duty of care is the definition of proper work behaviour this means not
acting in a way that will harm or intimidate others such as the clients or
patients. Professionals and non-professionals that work in health and social
care because they have to give care to their clients at a reasonably good
standard and avoid any conflicts by understanding the patients and always
give interest to the patient whether the patient is in their late adulthood and
or just an infant. Duty of care has no age limits.
When duty of care is not demonstrated in health and social care settings this
brings negligence and the patients begin to feel neglected and less of a
person. Neglect in Duty of care can come in many ways such as not taking
care of the patient or client’s hygiene, not checking if the environment they
are in is an appropriate place to reside in. The duty of neglect can also be
social, the professionals such as care workers or nurses are not
communicating with the patients, this will make the patients feel isolated
and unaware of anything that has to do with them. This links in with the
case study of Merryvale the implications that have been recognised in the
case study such as the same sex relationship that has shown discrimination,
the two female residents at the Merryvale do not expect this behaviour
coming from a fellow staff the reason why is because the duty of care
outlines that staff cannot harm others and it is an obligation for employers
and employees. With this discrimination that has happened at the two
females involved in the same sex relationship an alternative route for them
to make is by making a complaint so this does not repeat itself in the future
nor to other residents. However the females do not want to start an issue
and this can be the fact that they are intimidated and fearful that the
complaint might make other staff start harassing them because they spoke
the truth. What is already shown is that the staff have missed out the
equality act 2010 it states that “The Equality Act 2010 legally protects people
from discrimination in the workplace and in wider society.” The equality act
should’ve been used in this case rather than discrimination because it
allows the employees to know how to make the environments such as this
, residential care home fairer for the residents. This will allow the staff to
work within the guidelines of the equality act.
Another issue within this case study is the resident not being aware of their
legal rights. The R&RR (relatives and residents association) is a national
charity for older people in or needing care. They inform residents and
families about their rights in the health and social care settings such as
residential care homes. In the Merryvale the residents are not completely
aware of the room rights, resident whom is a women that wants to share
turn her bedroom into a double room wants to allow the family to take put
in a input they can also ask for support from the R&RR they will contact the
Merryvale and tell them about the females rights to the bedroom this will
make the residential home take action however if the residential home do
not put in action to make the residents aware about their rights. The
residents will begin to feel less independent and more dependent on the
staff for everything this is a positive and negative attribute the reason why
the residents also need to be in control of all that is going on around them,
they need to add their opinions about where they want to sleep and how
they want to sleep so they can feel comfortable in the residential home and
comfortable with the staff that is the positive part of the residents being
dependant on staff. The negative is when the staff start taking advantage of
residents and abusing their rights. For example in the case study one of the
women noticed that her partner had bruises all over her neck and arms
when she confronted her partner about the situation with the bruises she
stated that she fell over. This couple has already being a victim of
discrimination and now one of them has been abused by staff because she
needs support with dressing bathing. If the woman that states she fell over
the staff that is helping her with her dressing and bathing, which would be a
nurse or health visitor would be recording what has happened to make other
staff aware what has happened. This is human rights act 1998 and the data
protection act 1998 which insinuates that all the professional bodies such as
hospital’s or residential homes should protect and know all human rights
this includes such things as dignity, the staff that is helping her with
bathing and dressing should not invaded her privacy and ask if she is ready
to be assisted. The data protection for recording the residents progression
also says that the information recorded shouldn’t be kept longer than
necessary and kept safe and secure so no third party can invade the
resident’s confidentiality.
In the residential care home there is an illegal amount of staff working
within the care home this can bring complications such as not being able to
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