Principles of Care in Health and Social Care Practices

Principles Of Care

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
Principle of care refers to the base of Health and social care to provide delivery of care for
individual in better way. Care worker should treat an individual in such a way that individual
should be treated. Principle of care includes different standards like effective communication,
dignity and respect, responsive care be included and support and well-being. Principle of care is
important for delivering quality care with maintaining respect and dignity to the individual. It
also provide benefit to individual to be treated with dignity and compassion with respect. They
should also involve in the treatment and care. The principle of care is important in delivering
quality of care to the individual which they deserve. In this report, there is going to be discuss
about the understanding principle of care which can be implemented in social and health care
practices. This report also includes understanding about the impact of legislation, policy, code of
practices regulations and standards of health and social care practice. There is also discussion
about rights and autonomy which need to be balanced against the need for protect vulnerable
people. There is also a discussion about boundaries in relationships along with considering the
application of principle of good practices in carrying out care (Davidson, (2018)).
MAIN BODY
Principle of care is an important role in delivering health and social care services to the
patient. In context to this, there are five different principle of care which includes respect and
dignity, confidentiality, privacy, autonomy and effective communication. These are the five
principal of care which needed to be implemented by the healthcare professionals for delivering
better and effective health care services to their patient.
Respect and dignity- This is one of the key principle of care where every individual have
the right to get respect and treated with dignity while receiving care from the health care
professional. They have the right to be treated with respect at the healthcare premises. Nursing
staff or other healthcare professionals need to treat patients with a respectful manner. So, there
should no any harm to the dignity of individual while delivering care (Peterson, (2019)).
Privacy- While delivering care and following good practices, nursing staff and health
care professional need to respect the privacy of the individual. Privacy plays an important role
while receiving good care or good practices during getting any health care services.