Principles of Care in Health and Social Care Practice

HSO4004 Principles of Care

Table of Content.
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................1
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................2

INTRODUCTION
The principle of care can describe the pathway in which healthcare professionals can
provide care and should behave towards the people within the care. Within principle of care, the
healthcare workers should be treating a person in a manner that they would like to be treated as
well as they must work in their best interests of a person. The key care principles that are
included within health and social care is beneficence, autonomy, justice and non-maleficence as
well. It is important for every healthcare professional to provide such care principles to
vulnerable people. It is because care principles can aid care employees to effectively understand
the care treatment process of patients, how to keep their privacy as well as how rights of the
patients are safeguarded (Burgess, van Diggele and Mellis, 2018). In addition to this, it can also
help them to make informed decisions about the care treatment plan of patients. In this report, it
will cover key principles of good practice and how they are associated with Maslow's Hierarchy
of needs Theory and Roger's Humanistic Theory as well. There is a discussion about specific
legislations, code of conduct and policies which can underpin the health and social care practice.
In this, having risk assessment within health and social care is quite essential as it can protect
vulnerable people from harm and abuse. In addition to this, the report will cover how the
autonomy and rights of people are safeguarded from harm and abuse. Along with this, there is
also a discussion about anti-discriminatory practices linked with Equality Act 2010.
MAIN BODY
Discuss the key principles of care/good practice and link it to Maslow's Hierarchy of needs
Theory and Roger's Humanistic Theory.
The principles of care are important towards a productive healthcare setting. It can aim to
support care employees in order to determine as well as reflect upon the centrality of dignity
within the care provision of whole care services and to commit to preserve dignity of vulnerable
people as well. The main care principles which must be followed within health and social care
are as mentioned below:
Privacy: In this, it generally means that clinical data of vulnerable individual provided to well-
being care providers shall not be divulged to others unless individual can provide consent to
disclose their information to other people as well (Duffy, 2018).
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