Principles of Health and Social Care Practice

Unit 2 - Principles of
Health and Social
Care Practice

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................2
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................2
1 Explain how principles of support are applied to ensure that individuals are cared for in
health and social care practice................................................................................................2
2 Outline the procedure for protecting clients, patients, and colleagues from harm..............3
3 Analyse the benefit of following a person-centred approach with users of health and social
care services............................................................................................................................4
4 Explain ethical dilemmas and conflict that arise in health and social care services...........4
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................5
1 Explain the implementation of policies and codes of practice in health and social care....5
2 Explain how local policies and procedures can be developed in accordance with national
and policy requirements.........................................................................................................6
3 Evaluate the impact of policy, legislation, and codes of practice on organizational policy and
practice...................................................................................................................................6
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................7
1 Explain the theories that underpin health and social care practice......................................7
2 Examine how social processes impact on users of care services........................................7
3 Evaluate the effectiveness of inter-professional working...................................................8
TASK 4............................................................................................................................................9
1 Explain own role, responsibilities in the context of working within health and social care
workplace...............................................................................................................................9
2 Evaluate own contribution to development and implementation of organizational policy.9
3 Create recommendations to develop own contributions to meeting good practice
requirements.........................................................................................................................10
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................11
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................12
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INTRODUCTION
The health and social care practices includes principles from which support can be provided
by organization to service users. This includes providence of care and service by considering the
equality and dignity of individuals from which appropriate services can be provided to them. The
health professional of organizations must consider safety respect honesty of individual so that
various risks can be reduced that that cause impact on the health of individuals. In this
assignment, there are some principles of support are discussed who help in ensuring about the
services and that are providing to individuals (DeSanctis, 2017). There are some processes are
occur in order to protect patients and professionals from harm. The implementation of person
centered approach by NHS organization help in providing appropriate and effective services to
service users. There are some ethical dilemmas and conflicts are arising by providing services
and support to service users. In addition to this, the various policies and regulations are
implemented that help in providing the proper care and services to individuals. The local
processes and policies also help in developing effective services. These policies and regulation
cause potential impact on the practices and policies of organization. There are some theories also
help in underpin the practices of health and social care. The social processes also cause and
impact on service users. The occurrence of internal professional walking helps in developing the
effectiveness of services among patients. There are various roles and responsibilities are occur
among those were walking within the organization. Lastly, the contribution and recommendation
to providing the good practices within the organization are also discussed.
TASK 1
1 Explain how principles of support are applied to ensure that individuals are cared for in health
and social care practice
The practices within health Care provide proper support to individuals by delivering
appropriate services. Within this, they also provide safe services by considering their protection
in all factors. The practices within health and social Care organization has influenced due to the
demand of various factors within it (Nelson and Staggers, 2016). As the users demand and
consider various changing factors within the services of organization. There are various
principles within the practices of providing support which help in providing the effective care
and services to service users. These principles are occur according to the values that are
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recommended by society. These principles are also applied within NHS organization which helps
them to ensure about their services among individuals. From this, the health and social Care
organization can provide appropriate services by considering key factors that are necessary for
customers. This includes maintaining privacy, safety, convenience, honesty, equality and dignity
which help them to managing the risk that are occur within the organization. From the help of
these principles, the organization can ensure about safety of patients. The care professionals must
follows these principles while delivering services to service users so that they can reduce the risk
factors without affecting customers. This should be followed by all care professionals of
organization by allowing these principles within their services. It helps in providing proper
services and care to their services users.
2 Outline the procedure for protecting clients, patients, and colleagues from harm
There are some procedures with in NHS organization from which the health care
practitioners can protect service users from any harm. This procedure is described below.
 In order to protect the service users, the organization need to develop policies including
guidelines and regulation which is must consider by practitioners so that they can ensure
about protection of users.
 The planning of personalized care also helps in ensuring about safety and protection of
service users from any harm.
 Within organization, the risk management and assessment must occur on a regular basis
so that any harm or risk can determine properly (Olsen, 2017).
 It is necessary to inform about risk to all workers of organizations so that they can take
preventive steps within it.
 The partnership plan with various authorities helps in promoting the services in a proper
manner that helps in protecting the services from harm.
 The organization must need to keep proper record management so that information
regarding service users can be evaluated in a proper manner without any harm to respect
of any service user.
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