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UNIT 2 - M1
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health and social care COMPLETE ESSAY
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Shona ThomasM1 – Describe how practitioners should apply values of care in a health and social care
service
Values of care are the seven principles which encourage health and social care practitioners
to empower others through equality and respecting other people’s rights, this means that
the service user will feel comfortable enough to form a relationship with the health and
social care practitioner. The values manage to include a range of concepts to ensure that
everyone’s needs are met and that each individual’s experiences, backgrounds and lifestyles
are supported by the health and social care practitioners.
The promotion of anti-discriminatory practice
This is what the values of care are based on so as long as the practitioner follows each value
this would be met. This would mean that a health and social care practitioner would have to
treat everyone fairly even if they don’t agree with their views, this means that the
practitioner cannot be prejudice. The service user should not be judged on age, gender, race,
religion etc. This means that they should feel comfortable with the practitioner because they
should be accepted, which would boost their self-esteem. Discrimination may be direct or
indirect and can include: racist and sexist jokes, isolating clients with mental health
problems, avoiding looking at someone, ignoring the needs of someone with HIV, excluding
certain residents from activities. The Equality Act 2010 protects everyone from
discrimination in a health and social care settings so an individual shouldn’t be discriminated
against as it is illegal1. An example of promoting anti-discriminatory practice in a health and
social care setting is that there would be different food such as halal meat for people who
are religious beliefs as it is essential for them to eat certain foods to obey their God. So the
health and social care setting would promote anti-discriminatory practice because they
would show everyone is accepted and values in that place of care.
The promotion of safety, dignity and independence
Every individual has rights in a health and social care setting, so the practitioner should
ensure that everyone gets what they are entitled to, this would be that every person has the
right to safety so they shouldn’t get mistreated in terms of receiving treatment. An example
1 http://rcnhca.org.uk/equality-diversity-and-rights/anti-discriminatory-practice/
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