Principles of Health and Social Care Practice (L5)

PRINCIPLES OF
HEALTH AND
SOCIAL CARE
PRACTICES

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
TASK 1 ...........................................................................................................................................3
1.1 How principles of support are applied to ensure care for individuals in health and social
care practices...............................................................................................................................3
1.2 Outline the procedure for protecting clients, patients, and colleagues from harm................4
1.3 Benefits of following a person-centred approach with users of health and social care
services........................................................................................................................................4
1.4 Ethical dilemmas and conflict that may arise when providing care, support and protection
to users of health and social care services...................................................................................5
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................5
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................5
3.1 Theories that underpin health and social care practice.........................................................5
3.2 How social processes impact on users of health and social care services.............................8
3.3 Evaluation of the effectiveness of inter-professional working.............................................9
TASK 4..........................................................................................................................................10
4.1 Own role, responsibilities, accountabilities and duties in the context of working with those
within and outside the health and social care workplace..........................................................10
4.2 Evaluation of own contribution to the development and implementation of health and
social care organisational policy...............................................................................................11
4.3 Recommendations to develop own contributions to meeting good practice requirements.11
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................11
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................13

INTRODUCTION
Organisations in Health and Social Care has provide healthcare facilities to people. Rules
and legislations are used to protect the rights of patients and prevent them for any abuse or harm.
Individual care of service users is ensured by use of a person-centred approach by organisations
of health and social care, The aim of these organisations is to provide effective and quality care
to people with special needs (Rollnick, Miller and Butler, 2018). The following assignment is
based on Rupali Care Home and ICON Residential Care Home home, health and social care
organisations which aim to provide quality care to its patients. The assignment covers how
principles of support are implemented in health and social care practices and the impact of
policy, legislation, regulation, codes of practice and standards on organisation policy and
practice. It also covers theories that underpin health and social care practices, and evaluation of
own contribution to development and implementation of health and social care organisational
policies.
TASK 1
1.1 How principles of support are applied to ensure care for individuals in health and social care
practices
Patricia, an Alzheimer patient in ICON Residential Care Home requires support and
proper attention. Employees in ICON Residential Care Home are responsible to support Patricia
during difficult situations in her daily routine. Though recovering from Alzheimer's disease is
very difficult and almost impossible, still such practices might help to ease Patricia's health
condition to a great extent.
There are certain principles in health and social care practices which help organisations in
taking effective care of their patients. These principles are as follows: Respect and Dignity: Every person is entitled to be respected regardless of their
condition. Each individual must receive proper and effective care within organisations of
health and social care. In addition to this, their individuality and privacy too must be
carefully attended by employees of these organisations. Rights: There are various rights of patients that protect them from unethical practices.
Healthcare practitioners must consider these rights while providing care to patients. The
patients in these organisation has right to information, right to equal treatment and

confidentiality. Healthcare organisations must function without violation of these rights
and aim to enhance their service quality. Privacy: It is essential for health and social care organisations to give proper privacy to
their service users in terms of personal space, personal belongings as well as personal
information. Privacy is essential for these patients and any contravention in this might
lead to consequences (Hart and Bond, 2015).
 Effective Care: Service users of health and social care must receive effective care in
organisations. They must be treated by professionals who use latest and effective medical
procedures to provide best possible care to these patients. There must be no carelessness
while providing care to service users. Careful and appropriate measures must be
important for organisations of health and social care.
1.2 Outline the procedure for protecting clients, patients, and colleagues from harm
(Included in Poster)
1.3 Benefits of following a person-centred approach with users of health and social care services
World renowned psychologist Carl Rogers developed the person-centred approach. This
type of care is concerned with including service users of health and social care in healthcare
practices and provide care that effectively meet the needs of these patients. This means that this
approach puts service users at the centre and all the decisions are based on their needs.
Person-centred approach aims at acquiring emotional attachment of service users from
the organisation. This helps in enhancing their trust which results in more cooperation with
employees of these firms. This will be beneficial for ICON Residential Care Home as : Quality Improvement: Person-centred approach would help the organisation to improve
the quality of care given by the firm. This is because it would improve patients'
experience and satisfaction level. Involvement of service users in decisions would allow
the firm to effectively make service users realise the seriousness of their cooperation.
This would enable use of appropriate methods of providing care. Enhancement of Self Care: Since service users of ICON Residential Care Home will be
motivated to recover quickly and effectively, this approach would encourage them to take
personal measures for recovery. It would enhance self care practices within the service
users which would be beneficial in improving their health conditions.