Principles of Care in Healthcare: Importance and Impact on Vulnerable People

Principles of Care

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
Reflection...............................................................................................................................6
CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES ...............................................................................................................................8
Books and Journals ................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
Principle of care underpin the standards of clinical care which means that person-centered
care is responsive to values and requirements of consumers and patients. Standards of clinical
care support the principle and values of patient-centred such as encouraging patient participation
in decision-making, treating patients with dignity and respect, providing patients with
information in a format that they understand so they can participate in decision-making and
communicating with patients about their clinical condition and treatment options. There are five
main principle of care which includes privacy, communication, safety, independence and dignity.
All the caregivers keep theses five principles in their mind because the are required to provide
quality care to patients. This reports demonstrate the importance of of principles of care in
healthcare setting. There is also a brief discussion how the principle of care affect the right of
vulnerable people. All the issues of care and control in health and social care have been
mentioned in this report. This report also explores the importance of legislation in the protection
of vulnerable people in health and social care.
MAIN BODY
Principle of care is very important to empower vulnerable adults as it make
help and motivate them to take part in safeguarding process so caregivers can provide
appropriate care and support to them. The principle of care is considered as an obligation to
caregivers and nurses which helps to ensure their patient safety and protect them form harm. It
also helps to promote good situation and remove or prevent the occurrence of bad situations.
This report elaborates how principles of care applied in social and health care practices in order
to ensure health requirements of patients. A person-centred approach is considered as a number
of strategies And activities which are meant to assist health and social care service users to plan
and control. It is group of values and principles which need to be implemented by health and
social care providers in order to improve their ability, knowledge and skills so they can provide
quality care to patients. According to researchers, a person-centred approach is very essential as
only knowledgeable and skilled service provider can manage health associated issues and
develop strategies to resolve them. Person-centred approaches are helpful to improve the overall
health outcome (Steinkopf and et. al., 2020U). Person-centred approaches offer service users
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support and opportunities for decision making in their care services which enhance their level of
satisfaction. This also helps to decrease number of complaints made by the service users. The
principles of care and support ion healthcare setting help services providers to maintain the
privacy of individual patient, to understand the procedure of treatment for every single patients
and how to protect patients from harm to ensure their safety. New findings and best principles
implemented to health and care practices helps to provide quality care to patients. Carers must
clearly communicate with the patient and local authorities to protect and support vulnerable
people. For Torres Strait Islander patients , carer must provide care which is respectful and
responsive to their culture. Carer must recognise the difficulties faced by vulnerable group of
people. Principle of care make carers follow the ethics while delivering quality care to the
patients. Principle of care also ensures basic health requirements of patients. It sets the standard
for providing quality care services to patients. Principle of care includes five elements such as
safety, dignity, independence, communication and privacy (zunkaya Oztoprak and Terzioglu,
2021). Nurses keep patient protected and away from injury like bruises and burn. As per the
principles of care carer must keep their patient safe from any risk or hazards. Carers must treat
all the patients with respect. Carers need to interact with patients and their families with respect
by ensuring that they are not making harm to the patients. Carers improve the quality of care by
interacting with patients and their families (Singh and et.. al., 2019). Carers ensure the safety of
the patient by covering their body with clothes while providing care. The third principle is
considered as independence. Patients become helpless and dependent or caregivers and nurses
when nurses starts providing care to fulfil their daily requirements. Carers must make their
patients independent so their can make their own choice regarding their treatment and care plans.
Independency helps patients to stay healthy physically as well as mentally and decline their
current health conditions. Privacy is considered as fourth principle of care as it make caregivers
maintain the privacy of patients. The recorded data is only assessed by authorised persons and
not shared with other persons. In order to maintain the privacy carers save the data with codes.
Talking and interacting with patients is the major role of caregivers and doctors. Doctors need to
clearly communicate with the patients to evaluate their symptoms and health outcomes (Singh,
Askari and Stopfkuchen-Evans, 2019).
Principles of care provide a safeguard to vulnerable people. Vulnerable people refer to
group of people with disadvantages. Vulnerable group of people are not able to make decisions
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