Tackling Neglected and Abused in Health and Social Care Settings

TACKLING
NEGLECTED AND
ABUSED IN
HEALTH AND
SOCIAL CARE
SETTINGS

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
LO 1.................................................................................................................................................1
P1. Description of purpose and processes of conducting research.........................................1
P2. Explanation of Skills and Qualities needed to conduct literature review........................2
LO 2.................................................................................................................................................4
P3. Conducting a Literature Review using range of Sources.................................................4
P4. Explanation of Results of Literature Review...................................................................5
LO 3.................................................................................................................................................6
P5. Explanation of benefits of evidence-based practice as a method to carry out research...6
P6. Production of Project Proposal.........................................................................................6
LO 4.................................................................................................................................................9
Covered in PPT.......................................................................................................................9
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................9
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................10

INTRODUCTION
Within the Health and Social Care settings, neglected and abused individuals are the ones
who receive any sort of discrimination, neglect or physical or mental harm. It is highly essential
that these individuals are quite appropriately dealt with and tackled to ensure that an effective
service is given to each one of them (Portney, 2020). This is possible through an evidence based
practice, which the following report is subjected upon. The assignment below follows a case
study of Angela Coleman, who has been a former cancer patient in NHS for more than 10 years
and has reported neglect and ineffective attention of professionals in the care facility over
patients.
Hence, in regards to this, the report below covers a detailed explanation of research for
evidence-based practice in health and social care, along with conducting a literature review
relating to a key research topic towards improvements in care practice. In addition to this, the
assignment also includes development of a project proposal using evidence based practice.
LO 1
P1. Description of purpose and processes of conducting research
Evidence-Based Practice is the kind of procedure which is adopted in health and social
care which works upon usage of current best evidence to treat patients in an appropriate manner.
However, within such practice, a researcher plays a very crucial role in providing the accuracy
and relevancy which is needed within this practice. To better describe this role however, it is
necessary to first describe the purpose and process of conducting research in enabling evidence-
based practice in health and social care, both of which are explored below:
Purpose of Conducting Research:
 One of the most important purposes of research is to ensure that proper evidence is
acquired from the stakeholders, including patients through feedbacks or one-on-one
communication. These methods could surely be used to be implemented by healthcare
professionals such as nurses so that a well structured approach in adherence to these
evidences could be planned for the patients which is suitable and desirable by them
(LoBiondo-Wood and Haber, 2017).
 Another crucial purpose of research in evidence based practice is that it allows the care
organisations to provide factual and quantifiable information that is very necessary to
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ensure that the methods or medical procedures that are being implemented by the
healthcare organisation is accurate in terms of current industrial information and
requirements. If the case study of NHS is taken into account, one of the biggest issues
with the care organisation was that it did not use effective and statistically accurate
methods and processes to diagnose problems within patients like Angela, which led to
severe neglect and mental abuse due to being inappropriately diagnosed without using the
required research method.
Process of Conducting Research:
The process of conducting research within evidence based practice is effectively
showcased and explained as under:
 Identifying and developing topic: It is first step in process of research wherein
investigation topic is recognised and developed for further studies. In context to present
research, the topic is “Tackling neglect and abuse in health and social care settings”. It is
necessary to identify effective topic in order to make the whole research effective and
successful.
 Preliminary information search: Once research topic is selected, the next is to conduct
preliminary information about it. The preliminary research assists researchers to
determine whether they have enough information for the needs and requirements. It also
helps in setting context of research.
 Formulating aims, objectives and questions: In this step, the research formulates aims,
objectives addition to questions on the basis of research approach. Appropriate objectives
or hypothesis results from several attempts and are required to be properly monitored
through suitable methodologies.
 Conducting literature review: With clearing in direction of research, researcher begins
towards conducting literature review about the topic. In case with present research, there
are various places available for reviewing literature. In order to conduct research an
imperative step is associated with acquiring and gathering the required data about
patients, illnesses, methods and processes that could be used, along with severity of the
overall situation (Schneider and et. al., 2016).
 Selecting and Evaluating sources: The next step in research process is to evaluate
sources available with researcher in order to select the best option from where huge
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