Principle of Care in Health and Social Care: Key Principles, Theories, Legislation, and Safeguarding

This report discusses the principle of care in health and social care, including key principles like effective communication, privacy, respect and dignity, autonomy, and confidentiality. It also covers Maslow's hierarchy of needs theory, Rogers humanistic theory, impact of key legislation, code of conduct, policies, and safeguarding of vulnerable people.

ASSESSMENT 001 ESSAY

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTION
Principle of care refers to the health and social care along with early care provider who
should behave good while individual care. This is the one in which care workers should a treat an
individual in such a way that a they would like to be treated. This is the one which have the
importance in service delivery of health care services. With this, healthcare services can be
improved and a quality service can be delivered to the service user. This can help to ensure about
a maintaining individual dignity respect and quality of care. In this report, there is discussion
about the key principle of care like effective communication, privacy, respect and dignity,
autonomy and confidentiality (BELLIENI, 2020). This also provide understanding about the
Maslow’s hierarchy of needs theory along with Rogers humanistic theory which can provide link
with principle of care. There is also discussion about the impact of key legislation, code of
conduct and policies which can underpin within health and social care practices. There is also
evaluation of how rights and autonomy of vulnerable people can impact in balancing and
protection from any abuse or harm. This report also consists about the understanding of risk
assessment and importance in area of safeguarding of vulnerable people. There is also a
discussion about impact of anti-discriminatory practices related with the Equality Act 2010
(Speight, 2021).
MAIN BODY
Everyone wants to be treated effectively without compromising his dignity and respect
while receiving healthcare treatment. This can be effective and should work in best interest for
any individual. This principle of care are good practices in health and social care and highly
effective. This allow providing a better care service to the individual or service user which can
be effective and allowed to achieve better health. Everyone has a right to get treated well and
received care services with proper respect and in equal without getting any type of
discrimination. There should not be any type of loss of dignity while receiving services and care.
This can be referred as the principle of care. Healthcare provider should ensure that individual
can receive quality care and treated as they would like to get treated (Greenhalgh and et. al.,
2017). This is the principle of care which have different key principles that can include privacy,
respect and dignity effective communication, confidentiality and autonomy.

Effective communication is highly effective while sharing information with the patient
individual. This is the one in which healthcare professional or service provider can interact with
the service user for delivery of services and care. In this, effective communication can be helpful
in proper delivery of information regarding individual treatment and care plan. Communication
is the key through which healthcare professional can share their information with the patient for
or their improved health (Gadzinski and et. al., 2020). Respect and dignity is the one in which
healthcare professional should ensure that there should not be violence of respect and dignity of
patient. This can help to provide confidence to patient for receiving treatment from the health
care professional. Principle of dignity says that service provider should treat a patient with
proper respect which can help to maintain patients dignity along with their self-respect. This can
help interact with patient in regular basis. It can also allow to improve patients’ self-esteem when
service provider treat and talk with proper respect with the patient about their care plan. Privacy
is the key principle of care in which a healthcare facility should be delivered to many individuals
who are living in the quarters. Here, healthcare professional should take care about the privacy of
patient and should not interfere in their private matter and others. Safety is the key principle of
care in which service provider should ensure about the safety of patient. There should not be any
type of violence or harm to patient while delivering health care services. Here, service provider
should also ensure about the patient that they should not hurt themself. Confidentiality is the one
in which healthcare providers should ensure that there should not be sharing personal
information related with patient to any other person or third party. They should maintain
confidentiality and patient information should not be shared with any other individual without
the consent of patient. Autonomy refers to right of competent adult which can make an informed
decision regarding medical care. In this, there is a need for requirement to seek the consent or
inform agreement of the patient before treatment.
Maslow's hierarchy of needs theory reflect to human motivation which are based on a
motivation that includes five different needs within an individual. This may include
physiological need, safety need, social needs, Esteem needs and self-actualization need
(Ballantyne and et. al., 2018). Here, within physiological need, there is need to provide basic
need which can include food, water, air, shelter and clothing that should also provide to the
patient to fulfill their physiological need and to fulfill their need of respect and dignity. Safety
need may include physical, emotional and environmental safety and protection which can be

fulfilled by the service provider during delivering health care services to the patient where they
should feel safe either physically or emotionally. Social need may include need of affection,
love, belongingness and friendship. In this, service user should feel belongingness and affection
while receiving healthcare services. This can have to improve their better health. Esteem needs
can be referred to as confidence and self-respect where individual should feel better that may
help to get well soon. Self-actualization needs also include a capability to become and have the
potential to become. Here, service user should pose this self-actualization need which can help to
make a capable and potential to get well and feel better improvement in health.
According to Carl Roger's theory, there was a humanistic psychologist who has the
exemption that they need and environment which can provide them genuineness, acceptance
along with empathy which are necessary to develop healthy personality and better relationship.
These are effective and have better role play while delivering better care services to the patient.
Genuineness provides openness and self-disclosure which can be effective for the patient to get
awareness regarding their health processes. Acceptance can also be effective for the service user
which can allow to get unconditional positive regard which can be effective and provide some
confidence regarding improve health (Richardson and et. al., 2019). This can be also effective
which can help patient to get listened and understand by the healthcare professional which can be
effective in receiving proper care services.
There is high impact of a key legislation, code of conduct and policy that can be used in
health and social care practices. Here, health and safety legislation are highly effective and can
impact on delivery of services and ensure about individual protection while at work. This
protects the individual who may get affected by the work activity. Here, legislation can be
effective to ensure society about the acceptance behavior. There is also impact of policy on
health and social care services. In this, policy can help service provider to make decision
ethically and can follow those for better delivery of services to the service user. Code of conduct
is having high impact on health and social care service delivery (Gore and et. al., 2017). This is
the one which provide a standard to conduct while delivering health care support to worker and
adult social care worker. This one can outline the individual behaviour and attitude that should
be expected for experience. This can also help to ensure about guaranteed care, providing safety
and support. There are different policy which is highly effective and can play the important role
in protecting vulnerable people. These policy may include child care act, mental capacity act,

safeguarding and many others. Child Care Act have an impact on children lifestyle. In this,
through using this act it protects the children and promote their rights. This can help to protect
vulnerable children for their better health and safety. Mental capacity act is applied on every
individual working within health and social care. This can involve treatment care and support of
people which can provide ability to make better decisions when an individual is not able to make
their own decisions. Safeguarding is also effective and have a high impact on health and social
care of people. This can protect against any harm or neglect to the vulnerable adult or people
which can be highly effective within health and social care (Lou, 2020).
Working with the vulnerable group is quite rewarding, but it can come with many
responsibilities. Every people have the right to live their own lives free from abuse, harm and, if
an individual work with or around the vulnerable groups, it is an individual’s responsibility to
protect their safety as well as the basic human rights. The rights as well as the autonomy of the
vulnerable people can be protected by effectively understanding about which individual is at the
risk of particular harm, by recognizing the tell-tale signs of neglect, discomfort as well as abuse.
The rights can also be protected by effectively communicate with the vulnerable people
(Hendricks-Sturrup, Prince, and Lu, 2019). In this, the safeguarding practices will provide to
protect the rights as well as the autonomy of the vulnerable people as well as balance them to
protect the people from various abuse as well aa the harms. In this, the supported decision
making is generally viewed as a key mechanism for delivering the rights of the person with
certain disabilities under the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). This
particular model is generally founded in the article 12.3 of the Convention on the Rights of
Person with Disabilities as well as is specifically predicted on the basic principle that every
person is autonomous being who develops as well as can maintain the capacity as they engage in
the process of their making decisions even if at some levels encouragement is required. In this,
having a risk assessment is quite important in the safeguarding of vulnerable people (Diesfeld,
2018). It can generally aid to examine the possible things which can cause harm to the vulnerable
people so that people can effectively access whether the people have taken enough precautions as
well as must do another to prevent from the occurring harm. The major purpose of having the
risk assessment to identify the health as well as safety hazards. It can also aid to evaluate the
possible risks which are specifically presented among a particular workplace. In this, to evaluate

the effectiveness as well as suitability of the existing the control measures can also do with the
help of risk assessment.
In this, the anti-discriminatory practice is generally fundamental to the ethical basis of care
provision as well as critical to the protection of the dignity of people. The Equality Act
particularly protects those people who receiving care as well as the workers which specifically
provide it from being treated unfairly because of the particular characteristics such as the
disability, religions, the sexual orientation, racism and so on, these are protected under certain
legislations (Arstein-Kerslake and et. al., 2017). In this, there are also other legislations which
can aid the vulnerable people from any harm or abuse. The Safeguarding Vulnerable Group Act
2006 as well as the Protection of Freedom Bill are generally passed to aid avoiding the particular
harms, or the developing risk of harms by preventing the vulnerable people from gaining the
access to them through their specific work. With the help of these particular legislations, it is
important to safeguard the vulnerable people as every people has the right to live their lives free
from particular abuse or the harms (Mason-Case, 2019).
CONCLUSION
From the above discussion, it is concluded that safeguarding among the vulnerable people is
pretty important as this can protect the vulnerable adults from particular harms, abuse, or being
neglect. While providing safeguarding among the adults, the care providers must ensure that they
can live in an environment which is free from particular abuse, neglect or any harm. It is
concluded from the above study that the care providers can also support the vulnerable adults to
make their own decisions as well as can provide them an informed consent that can help the
vulnerable people to feel independent. By providing safeguarding among vulnerable adults, it
can also prevent them from the developing risks of abuse, or particular harms as well as also
encourage them to stop such risks from reoccurring. It is also concluded from the above report
that safeguarding can help the vulnerable adults to promote their well-being as well as can
effectively take their views, feelings, as well as beliefs into an account.

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