Evaluating Professional Code of Conduct in Learning Disability Care

This report provides an in-depth analysis of the professional code of conduct in learning disability care, emphasizing the importance of ethics and values in nursing practices. It explores key principles such as equity, diversity, inclusive practices, safeguarding, confidentiality, effective communication, and social values, evaluating their impact on patient well-being and trust. The report further discusses strategies for encouraging patient empowerment, highlighting the role of nurses in recognizing patients as experts in their own care and involving them in decision-making processes. Concluding that a strong professional code of conduct is essential for ensuring high-quality, ethical care and promoting positive outcomes for individuals with learning disabilities.

PROFESSIONAL CODE OF CONDUCT

TABLE OF CONTENT
 Introduction
 Analysing the principles of good practices in relation of the learning
disability
 Evaluation of the impacts of these principles and values over patients
 Encouraging patient empowerment in learning disability
 Conclusion
 References

INTRODUCTION
 Professional code of conduct refers to the set of values and ethics that has
to be taken in consideration while performing the practices.
 The current study determines the professional code of conduct related to
the learning disability by the nurses.
 The learning disability involves improving and managing the mental and
physical health of the service user.
 It is important to ensure the effective learning disability code of conduct
in healthcare as it provides the assurance of nurse-led intervention.

ANALYSING THE PRINCIPLES OF GOOD
PRACTICES IN RELATION OF THE
LEARNING DISABILITY
 The role of nurses in the learning disability is to provide the major focus over the
biological, psychological and the social-well being of the client along with
ensuring the care and interventions to the client.
 The behaviour pattern of the service user is examined by the nurses in order to
ensure the effective treatment to the client. Here is the major code of conduct that
has to be assured by the nurses in learning disability:
 Equity and diversity: The equity and diversity refers to providing equal
opportunities to everyone. The healthcare policies has determined the principle of
equity and diversity as the part of learning disability. Nurses are entitled to treat
every client with the same approach as there are large number of service users
and all of them are aligned with different issues. According to their problems, the
behaviour pattern has to be adopted by the nurses. The role of the learning
disability nurse is to create the sense in the patient that they are treating with
complete care needs.

CONTD.
 Inclusive practices: Inclusive practices refers to the inclusion of all or
involvement of all. The healthcare services are for each individual of the
society. This principle states that, the nurses must involve all the patients in
treatment in order to provide the assurance of giving value to all the
patients. The learning disability is concerned with the management of
biological, physical and mental well-being of the client. The nurses must
perform all the aspects within involving all the patients.
 Safeguarding: It involves protecting the health and human rights of the
individuals. It has been found from various sources that, there are numerous
cases that has been found in the healthcare where the medical negligence
has been done. The learning disability code of conduct states that,
safeguarding of the client is the topmost priority of the nurses. Lack of
knowledge in relation of using medical instrument can lead to the damage to
the client. The treatment of the client has to be ensure with complete safety.

CONTD.
 Confidentiality: During course of treatment, the client becomes familiar
with the service provider and often share important information to them.
It is the responsibility and duty of the service provider that, they have to
keep such information confidential. It shows the ethical consideration by
the nurses. Also, the medical status of the client in relation to the mental
and physical health has to be keep private.
 Effective communication:This has been determined as one of the
effective practice that provides the assurance of the professional code of
conduct in learning disability. The patients are entitled with the numerous
issues that are related to the mental health and physical health. Many
patients often find difficulties in sharing their problems. This is the duty
of nurse that, they must create the environment under which client feels
comfortable in sharing their problem. Also, it is important to generate the
effective communication among the service provider and service user as it
adds the glory in providing the treatment to the patient.

CONTD.
 Principle of social values: The professional code of conduct in
healthcare is concerned with the protocols of performing the social values
as well. The nurses are aligned to take care of the clients within
performing the ethics. It includes understanding the emotions of the
client. The role of nurses in learning disability is just not limited to the
managing the health of the patient. They are entitled to perform the core
practices that are related to understanding the internal emotions of the
patients. Also, the behaviour therapy has to be taken in consideration for
developing the effective understand with the clients.

EVALUATION OF THE IMPACTS OF THESE
PRINCIPLES AND VALUES OVER PATIENTS
 Values and principles are the central part of the healthcare as well as
social care system which helps the nurses to guide their workers to
understand right from wrong doings. The principles that has been
discussed in above point have their own significant impacts over the
patients who are getting services from nurses or other healthcare workers
in general has been explained below:
 Impacts of equality and diversity: With the help of getting equality
along with diversity while giving services to the patients, the trust level
has been generated. The trust is a kind of factor that is being committed
towards providing the fair treatment to all the patients as well as service
users irrespective of their age, disability, colour, ethnicity, gender
reassignment, race, nationality, religion or belief, responsibility for
dependents, and any other similar kind of characteristics. All policies and
procedures that is being utilised by a nurses are highly able to deliver the
services that impacts and assess equality into consideration.

CONTD.
 Impacts of inclusive practices: Inclusion of practices that generates a
sense of equality within health and social care is seriously significant to
make sure about the people’s differences that they must be valued and the
patients are treated at their maximum level of ethics and values by
adopting equal treatment practices and support which helps to take part in
activities which are solely belongs to their interest.
 Impacts of the principle belong to safeguarding: Safeguarding belongs
to protecting individuals’ health and well being along with human rights.
It is highly fundamental in health and social care because it is the core of
everything that is being done into each and every field. Nurses are able to
safeguard their individuals or patients by making sure that they are in a
safe and secure environment along with away from any kind of abuses or
harmful situations.

CONTD.
 Impact of confidentiality on patients: The confidentiality of a patient
should be maintained because the communication of personal information
about the patients or their records may create personal as well as
professional issues or problems as the patients are solely dependent upon
the nurses and other health care service providers even in able to keep
their information private and confidential. These are the reasons that
patients effectively able to share the information with doctors and nurses
and get proper timely treatments.
 Impacts of effective communication over patients: It ensures the
professional code of conduct in learning disability. Patients are facing
innumerable issues due to ineffective communication with the patients.
Hence, the nurses are appropriately able to enhance the patients’
experiences and appropriately able to reduce their complaints. It also
helps to increase nurses self confidence, professional standing, career
prospects and job satisfaction along with reduce the stress level among the
patients.

CONTD.
 Impacts of principle of social values: Values are always considered as
the central part within the health and social care system. This is the most
significant principle which provides appropriate guidance to workers in
order to understand the right and wrong along with the important things
that needs to be taken care about along with supporting each and every
individual. This will enhance the level of the enterprise within the minds
of patients along with their value maximization, involvement of people
who matters the most, gain competitive advantages, increase
communication techniques and in gaining funds as well as contracts.
 People gain great amount of control over decisions and actions which
affects their own health. Empowering patients enables them to tale co-
responsibility for the proper management of their condition. It enhances
the medical outcome along with lower down the cost of medication as
well. It has been generated among patients by taking certain actions which
includes open communication and get them involved in every decision is
highly significant in order to generate patient empowerment.

ENCOURAGING PATIENT
EMPOWERMENT IN LEARNING
DISABILITY
 In order to empower people who are facing disability issues and who
requires health care, the nursing staff members need to recognize as
their own experts and listen to them properly.
 They have to allow them to teach those who delivers care and make
them able to prepare for the planning, give responsibilities for change
and evaluate their own care up to considerable level.
 Moreover, other options will include offer patients treatment options,
direct patients to fiscal resources, refer them to educational resources
etc.