Exploring Principles of Care and Good Practice in Health and Social Care

Exploring principles of care
and good practice

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
Discussion key principles of care...........................................................................................3
Maslow’s hierarchy of needs..................................................................................................4
Impacts of key legislation, policies and codes of conducts....................................................5
How rights and autonomy of vulnerable people provide safety from harm or neglect..........5
Importance of risk assessment in safeguarding vulnerable adults..........................................6
Abuse and impact and anti-discriminatory practices..............................................................7
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................9

INTRODUCTION
Principle of care refers to the way through which health and social care service provider
should behave and should ensure about getting better improvement in their health. This is the one
which includes the way in which any individual should be treated with health and social care
settings. Here, it may include independence, dignity, choice, privacy, rights, safety, partnership,
respect, inclusion, equality and confidentiality (Christe et. al., (2022)). It can help healthcare
professional to behave in ethical way which should include patient and their health more
effectively. In this assignment, there is discussion about the key principles of care like effective
communication, confidentiality, autonomy, privacy, respect and dignity and many more. It also
includes the Maslow’s hierarchy of needs theory which is linked with the principle of care. There
is also discussion about the impacts of key legislation, code of conduct and policies which comes
under health and social care. There is also evaluation of rights and autonomy of vulnerable
people who should be protected from any type of abuse or harm. It also includes the importance
of risk assessment to safeguarding vulnerable people (Renaud et. al., (2018)).
MAIN BODY
Principle of care includes delivery of healthcare services which are effective and allow to
get better care through using different practices which should be taken in consideration that
provide best practices when applied effectively (Muhsin, (2021)). Principle of care are highly
important to delivery health and social care services ethically which can have high impact on the
quality of delivered health care services. It also plays an important role in ensuring about the
effective delivery of healthcare services which are can help in improving patient health more
effectively and patient respect and dignity should be maintained through following ethical
practices. It also helps in taking care and interest which can have high impact to ensure about
good practices within health and social care services. There is high impact on providing better
care to patient through practice implementing principle of care within health and social care
settings (Duffy et. al., (2019)).
Discussion key principles of care
Effective communication is highly effective within health and social care services. This is
the one that can allow to take care of individual health which should be effective and help