Values & Principles In Health and Social Care

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VALUES AND PRINCIPLES IN HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE
Name of the Student
Name of the University
Author note

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Values
Values are the ideologies that guide
actions in human life. The classification of
values can be as social, moral and ethical.
One’s personal value system is influenced
by gender, education level, previous
experiences and family. All these factors
together contribute to the development of
rationale thinking and the outlook of an
individual is guided by the above mentioned
factors (Darlow et al. 2012). Most of the
individuals are self-oriented or community
oriented. Depending on these, the values of
person develops. While discussing about
change in cultural behavior it should be
mentioned that values are aspect that does
not change with place and groups, however
people try to adapt to other person’s values
to create a healthy and comfortable situation
(Redmond 2017).
My personal values
Working as a healthcare professional
has helped me to acknowledge my personal
values. My personal values are complete
reflection of my surrounding environment,
my cultural and personal beliefs and my
professional conducts that help me to
understand that while caring for my patients,
I should adapt to patients values so that care
process becomes easier. Hence according to
my understandings, the main values in
health and social care practice are related to
better patient outcomes (Cameron et al.
2014). I have always attempted to respect
the privacy of the patients. My work has
been facilitated by instilling principles of
compassionate care and ethical practice. In
this context it is to be mentioned that I need
to learn more about caring for the needs of
vulnerable people.
Comparing my values with the NHS
and code of conduct I found that majority of

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my personal values were in compliance with
the values of code of conduct such as
working with the patient so that higher
quality of care can be provided, respecting
privacy and dignity and caring with
compassion. Further, I was also able to
make my patients feel safer while care,
because of my friendly behavior with my
patients. Therefore, while comparing with
the NHS and code of conduct, I found
majority of my values to be similar.
My culture
I have always been taught to be
humble and tolerant towards others. These
qualities have made be a generous care giver
in care settings. My grounded values have
shown me the path to work in collaboration
with other individuals It has also shown me
the way in which I can be sensitive towards
the varied needs of diverse populations. I
always strive to provide non-bias services
free of prejudices. Therefore, my culture has
always pushed me to take care of others
without judging them based on their
ethnicity, cultural background and other
social discriminations, affecting my practice
positively.
Theories
Seedhouse
This theory determine that there are
different dimensions and meaning of
healthcare for different people. However,
the healthcare process should be completely
dependent on the different political
philosophies of social justice, equality,
tolerance and utilitarianism. In this theory
David Seedhouse provided theories related
to good life and wellbeing and defined that
the relationship between health and good life
is completely dependent on the core values
and personal beliefs of the person and it acts
as a foundation for the good life. This theory
did not provide a set of core values and
recommendations to people, but it provides
the person with the power to choose his or
her own set of skills and values, to attain a

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good life of his or her own choice (Bowling
2014).
Heritage cycle
Heritage is always related to the
roots and hence, it determines that cultural
and behavioral values are also related to the
roots of the person and its positive or
negative impacts puts longer impact on the
person. In this theory, primary focus was
given on the surrounding environment, and
primarily focuses on the four aspects of care
such as understanding, caring, valuing and
enjoying. This cycle can be defined as the
way to attain a good life as from enjoyment,
a thirst for understanding will arise, further
understanding it, the person will start
valuing the process and will try to care and
protect the happiness for the rest of the life
and hence they will be able to enjoy their
life (Iyer Raniga and Wong 2012).
Seven dimension of compassion
Compassion is consists of seven
dimensions attentiveness, presence, silence,
anticipating patient’s needs, understanding
patients emotions, helping and involvement.

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These components are helpful in creating
and sustaining a relation with patient so that
their pain and their concerns can be
understood by them and they can take
necessary steps to reduce the distress of the
patient. However, there are two different
views related to this one aspect as good care
and supportive care are two different
concepts that uses and implements these
seven aspects of compassion differently
(Van der Cingel 2014).
Twelvetrees three ways of tackling
inequality
Healthcare and community care
works generally overlap as in both the cases,
the person completely dependent on the
respecting and maintaining dignity of the
person, accepting care. Further, these both
are about acknowledging fundamental
differences of the person. Therefore, it
should be mentioned that colliding both
these care process, will help to create a
situation where community care and the
healthcare will be able to tackle the
inequality related prejudices and provide
high quality care to each person seeking
help (Twelvetrees 2017).
Legislations
Human values and beliefs are always
beyond limitations and hence to control
them, legislations, and regulations are
imposed so that they can act and behave
within that boundary. In healthcare and
social care, while providing the client with
care, there are different legislations that
should be complied with. These are the
human rights, the code of conduct, Francis
Inquiry, care act 2004, equal opportunity,
confidentiality, bullying and harassment and
so on (Francis 2013). Within these, the code
of conduct provides guidelines related to the
behavior of the professionals in care
settings, whereas the care act determines
that in healthcare settings, integrated care
and support should be provided to the
patient so that they can develop care

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improved health. The Francis Inquiry on the
other hand, deals with the regulatory and
monitoring authorities of the healthcare
facilities (Sommers et al. 2015).
Impact of legislation on work and how it
changed my values
The health and social care sector
often witness’s development in its
legislations and policies. As a professional
from the same sector I acknowledge the
need to implement such changes in my
practice. Though such changes add to
burden to my workload, I try to embrace
them as much as possible. Professional
duties and accountabilities change as per the
changes brought about in the workplace
settings.
Conflict or tension between values
These often lead to role conflicts
and role ambiguity. However, in this
situation, if the person stick to his or her
personal and cultural values then it became
easier to overcome the ambiguity and
conflict as they adapt to the situation.
Therefore, it should be determine that
legislations has the power to impact the
work positively as well as negatively and
changes in values can lower the effect
instantly. To fight the conflict between my
values and my personal values, I prefer my
values as my values are always in
compliance with that of the cultural values
and hence, in the tension and conflict
between professional and personal values I
prefer to go with my personal values so that
while caring for my patients I can relate to
them and provide them with high quality
care.

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