Responsibility of people who work in health and social care

Question 1

Complete the appropriate stages of the care planning cycle.

What are the stages?
What happens in each stage?

Answer 1

Monitor needs
Plan care plan
Implement plan
Monitor plan
Assess and evaluate plan
Amend plan

Question 2

What are the professional care standards?

Answer 2

Professional standards

Following policies and procedures
Commitment to care standards:

Promoting anti-discriminatory practices
Empowering individuals
Safeguarding of staff and service users
Confidentiality
Good communication

Question 3

What is the care sector consortium?

Answer 3

The Care Sector Consortium 1992

Established care values
Care values are found in the code of practice of all health care professions, such as:
The GMC (General Medical Council) – monitors the behaviour of doctors
The NMC (Nursing and Midwifery Council) – monitors the behaviour of nurses and midwives.
HCPC – monitors the behaviour of social workers and other health professionals such as physiotherapists, paramedics etc.

Question 4

What is the equality act and when was it published?

Answer 4

Equality Act 2010
Aims to ensure that the care needs of service users are met regardless of differences and that prejudices of staff or other service users are challenged.

Question 5

What types of discrimination does the equality act 2010 fight against?

Answer 5

Gender
Race
Age
Sexual orientation
Pregnancy
Gender re-assignment
Religion
Disabilities

Question 6

What is the human rights act and when was it published?

Answer 6

The Human Rights Act 1998
guarantees rights to people cared for by ‘public authorities’ to be treated equally, with fairness, dignity and respect.

Question 7

What human rights do we have?

Answer 7

Right to life
Right to being seen in court (Innoccent until proven gulity)
Cannot be punished for breaking a law before it was published
Freedom from slavery and unpaid labour
Freedom of thought, conscience and religion
Freedom of expression
Right to peaceful assembly and association
Right to marriage and found family
These rights are the same for everyone

Question 8

What is unconscious bias?

Answer 8

Unconscious bias
Subconscious prejudices, where we ‘prefer’ people who we see as being the same as us, or, have been conditioned to believe are ‘better’.

Question 9

What are the types of unconscious bias?

Answer 9

Gender
Race
Age
Social background
Education
Height
Size
Beauty
Name
Affinity
Similarity