Health and Social Care Learning Aim A Unit 2 Flashcards
What is Informal Care
Informal Care is care and support provides by relatives and friends, normally unpaid and in addition to the care provided by professional and health and care providers.
What are the 3 Main Factors what make up a Care plan ?
-Assessing the individual healthcare needs of their service user
-Agreeing a care plan that promotes the service user’s health and wellbeing.
-Evaluating the effectiveness of the care plan implemented.
What are the 6 part of the Care Planning Cycle ?
1]Assess the Client’s needs
2]Plan and, where possible, agree the most appropriate care
3]Implement the care plan
4]Monitor the effectiveness of the plan
5]Review and evaluate the effectiveness of the plan
6]Amend the plan as necessary
What was the purpose of the Care Planning Cycle?
The purpose of the Care Planning is to show the intervention and changes that may be introduced in at any point in the process. Adjustments may be necessary. For example, in the response to changes in the client’s health or social circumstances, the resources that are available, the specific expertise of the staff of multi-disciplinary team or changing levels of support from informal carers.
What happens when service providers are planning care?
When planning care service providers must asses needs and agree the appropriate care with the service user and where appropriate with family members and other informal carers. Informal careers often contribute to the reviews and evaluations of care provision and to discussion about alternative strategies.
What are specific responsibilities that service providers must follow?
-Promoting anti-discriminatory practice to ensure that care services meet the needs of all people regardless of their religion, culture, ethic background, disability or other personal differences.
-Empowering individuals, enabling them to take control of their lives and the designs that relate to their treatment and care.
-Ensuring the safety of staff, and of the people whom they care.
-Maintaining confidentiality and privacy
-Promoting good communication between carers, and between carers and their clients.
What are Codes of Practices?
Code Practices are standard of behaviour and professional practice requires of health and care practitioners set and monitored by professional bodies such as the GMC,NMC or the HCPC.
What are Anti- discriminatory practices ?
Anti-discriminatory practices are care practices that ensure that individual and different needs of clients and patients are met regardless of their race, , age, disability, sex or sexual orientation, and that prejudices and unfair discrimination are challenged
What are Prejudices ?
Prejudices are preconceived opinions or fixed attributes about a social group that are not based on reason or evidence. Prejudicial attributes may lead to active discrimination.
What are the examples of Code of Practice that all health and care professional follow ?
-The General Medical Council [GMC] sets and monitors standards of behaviour for doctors.
-The Nursing and Midwifery Council [NMC] sets and monitors standards of behaviour for nurses and midwives.
-The recently formed Health and Care Professions Council [HCPC] sets and monitors standards of behaviour for social workers and for a range of other health professionals, including physiotherapist, occupational therapists, paramedics and speech therapists.
What is the importance of Anti-discriminatory Practice?
The importance of Anti-discriminatory practice is a core value and principle that guides the work of Equality Act 2010. It underpins the polices and practices of care settings, and in the codes of practice of all care professionals. Anti-discriminatory practice aims to ensure that the acre needs of service users are met regardless of differences in race, ethnicity, age, disability or sexual orientation, and the prejudices of staff or other service users are appropriate challenged.
Who does the Equality Act 2010 prevents discrimination from?
-Age,Sexual orientation, Sex, Religion or belief, Race, Pregnancy and maternity, Marriage and Civil Partnership, Gender reassignment, Disability.
