Unit 302- Personal and Professional development Flashcards
What is law?
Set of rules that are abide by the community that were enforced by the courts.
Why do we need laws?
- To regulate society
- To protect people
- To enforce and solve conflicts
What is rights?
Something that all people are entitled to- equality act 2010
How are laws made?
What is a code of practice?
- Set of guidelines for particular professions
- A code of practice is a set of written rules which explains what to do
How many subsections are there of NMC code?
25 subsections
What is a policy?
Policies can be guidelines, rules, regulations, laws or directions (basically what you have to do)
What are the duties of an employee in health and safety policy
- Must comply with the health and safety management, risk control systems and
standards to ensure safe working practices - Are required to co-operate with preventative and protective measures to safeguard and promote health and safety
- Need to take reasonable care to promote and ensure their own and others health and safety
- Report any health and safety concerns to their line manager and the COO
What are the duty of an employer for health and Safety?
- Carry out a risk assessment and put in suitable risk control measures for the safety of each service user and to assure a safe working environment for staff and volunteers
- Identify and report health and safety risks arising from risk assessments, accident and injuries reports, routine inspection checks and audits on the service
- Provide information, instruction, supervision and in house supportive learning
Keep health and safety monitoring, recording and routine reporting systems up to date
C.E.O Is the person who keeps everyone in their care ensures their safety and well being
What are the duty of a volunteer in health and safety policy
- Report any health and safety concerns to their designated support officer
- Must cooperate with preventative and protective measures to safeguard and
promote health and safety - Are expected to participate in induction, general and specific work activity health and safety learning and development programmes as required for their volunteering role
What is an advocate
Someone who speaks for someone behalf out of their best interest
Duty of care in employees
- Inclusice care
- Clients should feel empowered
- Providing choice
- To promote independence
- Person centered care
- Communication
Failure of DOC (duty of care)
- legal action
- safeguarding put at risk
- patients death or put into jury
- staff could lose job
- Codes of conduct and the duty of care does not protect vulnerable adults form harm
- mistakes can happen e.g through lack of training, poor communication, stress, negligence, or being distracted
Define this key terms:
- Adverse event
- Errors
- Near miss
- Incident
- S.A.L.T
- O.T
- Adverse event: preventable or non preventable, that cause harm to a patient as a result of poor medical care
- Errors: an act of mistake in the duty of care
- Near miss: A close call or nearly a collision
- Incident: it is described as a negative event which has caused severe harm or damage to either the person receiving care or the organisation
- S.A.L.T: speech and language therapy
- O.T: occupational therapist
What are the principles of care
- Promoting effective communication and relationships
- anti-discriminatory practice
- protecting individual from abuse
- celebrating diversity
- respecting people’s privacy
- promoting individualized care
- protecting individual from abuse
- Acknowledging individuals belief
What are values?
The moral principles and beliefs or acceptance standard of a person or social group
what are principles?
A kind of rule that guides you of an obligation of right of conuct
What are the principles of care?
- Promoting communication and relationships
- Promoting anti discriminatory practice
- Maintaining confidentiality information
- Promoting & supporting individuals rights o dignity, independence, empowerment, choice and safety
Identify 3 forms of prejudice
- Racism
- Sexism
- Homophobia
What is labelling?
Labelling, for example a person who wears a cross may be labelled as a highly religious christian, anather example is when someone wears a hijab may be labelled as a terrorist
Explain what an anti- discriminatory approach to care practice involves
Recognizing the needs of people, actively challenge discrimination
Explain how care practitioners can adopt an anti- discrimination approach
Need to be challenging your own discrimination, challenging the prejudice of other people
What does prejudice mean ?
preconceived opinion that is not based on reason or actual experience
What can be done to give rights to choice
- Individuals should be included in decision making regarding their care
- This can include what food they want to eat, what treatment they wish to have
- Individuals should be given the information they need to make informed choices
carers promoting independence and empowerment to individuals in need
Independence:
- Individuals should be allowed & encouraged to do as much for themselves as possible
- If staff do everything, individuals will feel useless & become dependent on staff
Empowerment:
- Individual should be provided with necessary support to do things for themselves & maintain their right to independence - e.g. providing aids, adaptations, occupational therapy etc.
What should Employees do in health care setting to protect individual in care
- locking away dangerous items-knives/scissors & medication
- Having locks/ codes on doors
- ensuring the equipment is regularly checked
- no slippery floor
- Locked cabinet for medication- which should be original boxes with patients full name on
- Sharp bin- for used needles etc
- Room risk assessment- both formal (written) & informal (moving chair out of the way)
- Fire procedures/ Precautions- full signage in place
What are the 6 C’s- set of values
- Care
- Compassion
- Competence
- Communication
- Courage
- Commitment
How is compassion used in health care
compassion is a term of having a concern of someone- this could be making people lean and experience outdoor activities (horticultural therapy)
what is commitment
Having a proffessional way of handling with patients
what is competence
the ability to do something succesfully
What is courage and commitment
Willing to help patients in hard situations
what is commitment
an obligation to do something
Why is reflective practice usefull in health and socail care
- to not repeat the same mistakes
- to understadn patients needs
- how and what you do to effect others
- learn how to deal with trauma
- to develop safe working practices
- to improve as a carer
- it encourages actions
What is reflective practice?
Personal learning and development
Name a model of reflection practice
Graham Gibbs reflective cycle
Why is supervision important for newly appointed staff
Giving the reflection of what they could do better and how they can improve
What is informal supervision
Something that can be carried out anytime
What is a staff appraisal?
When a member of staff that meets with the line manager ad outlines the strength and feedback of your role at least once a year
Name 3 types of supervision
- clinical supervision
- proffessional supervision
- management supervision
What is clinical supervision?
Every 4 weeks, for clinical staff that are trained in health care practice (service users/health workers), discuss your case load sharing good practice and talking about yourselves and how you are feeling
What is management supervision?
Managing policies and procedures such as has leave been booked? are targets being met? Any flexible working needs?
What are the skills to being a team player
- effective communication
- Reasonable
- listening and trust each other
- courage
- respect
- leadership skills
- being able to think critically
- getting along with others
- need to have a decent professional relationships
- have no prejudice against another team
- reflective practice
What are the benefits of working in a team
- collaboration
- shared responsibility
- support
- less work to do on your own
- ideas cam shared and therefore improved on
- gets the job done quicker
Types of teams
- nominal care group: includes physicians who refer a patients to different specialist - undisciplinary group: organised a single discipline - multidisciplinary group: Multiple of goals and disciplines - interdisciplinary team: one goal with dif. backgrounds
