Essay: Principle of Care in Health and Social Care - [University Name]

This essay provides a comprehensive overview of the principles of care within the context of health and social care. It begins by defining the core concepts of care, including partnership, dignity, and confidentiality, and emphasizes the importance of effective communication. The essay then delves into the significance of these principles, highlighting anti-discrimination practices and the maintenance of trust between care providers and clients. It also explores Maslow's hierarchy of needs in relation to patient care, emphasizing the importance of safety, security, and patient-centered design. The essay further examines the impact of legislation, policies, codes of conduct, and regulations on vulnerable populations, providing examples such as the Care Act 2014 and the Human Rights Act 1998. It also discusses ethical dilemmas and the contributions of good and bad practices, providing a reflective analysis using Gibbs model. Overall, the essay aims to enhance understanding of the principles of care and its implications for professional practice, contributing to the well-being of individuals in need of care. The essay concludes by highlighting the importance of ethical considerations, good practices, and the role of legislation in safeguarding vulnerable people, ultimately offering a reflection on personal strengths and weaknesses in the context of care delivery.

PRINCIPLE OF
CARE
Essay

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................4
Outline importance of principles of care.....................................................................................4
Mention about impact of legislation, policy, code of conduct, regulation and standards, USE
Example to discuss about the impact of each..............................................................................6
Explain about contribution of good practice, ethical dilemmas good and bad practice, Then
use your own experience of good practice..................................................................................8
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................9
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................10

INTRODUCTION
Principle of care refers to an effective concept that explain the way social, health care and
early years suppliers should behave towards in individual care. In this a person who represents as
a care taker can treat an individual person in an effective way that should look as a best interest
of the individual. It includes the several aspects such as partnership, dignity, interdependence,
privacy, respect, safety, confidentiality etc. In the principle of healthcare effective
communication can play a vital role because without it no care can be done by the care person.
This essay report is based on the importance of principle of care that helps in reflecting the best
health and social care of a person. This report elucidates maslow's need hierarchy theory in
relation to a personal care of a person. Further it includes impact of policies, legal impact on
vulnerable people. All these aspects helps in enhancing knowledge related to principle of care
subject. It also elaborates ethical issues that may impact principle of care of a person and at last
present a reflective statement by using Gibbs model so that individual strength and weaknesses
are understood properly which helps in capturing opportunities prominently in professional
career.
Outline importance of principles of care
Principle of care includes the varieties of determinants that includes choice,
independence, dignity, privacy, inclusion, confidentiality, partnership etc. it is generally based
on the rights of human. In this it is very essential that a care worker is need to understand the
client and their problem so that offering empathy would be easy. The major aim of the principle
of care is to improve the life of their clients(Yin and et. al., 2019). It may contains some
importance that plays an major impact on the life of people which can be shown below:
 One of the major importance of the principle of care is about it highly focus on the anti
discrimination that means a care person cannot discriminate person to person. Which
denotes that each and every one get equal treatment that also allow the independence
without referring to the another person. In this one person can be recognised as a worthy
where no one can judge the another person who need care on the basis of their caste,
colour, religion etc. For instance- In this a care taker can provide the proper care to the
needy people without any discrimination. In this a person can belongs to a vulnerable
category and another one is the high class society, both get the equal treatment as per
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their disease within the hospital. In this a doctor cannot discriminate their patient on the
basis of colour, caste and treated everyone equally so that society culture is also to be
improved related to caring the person.
 The another importance of principle of care is to keep and maintain confidence between
the practitioner and client that plays and essential part of the good care practice. In this a
care person cannot deliver the information to another person as they can follow proper
ethics. In this confidentially can be break when an individual person can harm
themselves. This is the major importance in the health and social care that is possible
because of Principle of care(Murray and Mace, 2020). For example- In this the care taker
cannot passes the patient secret information to the other person without their permission
as it reflects the good ethics of the practitioner. A person is suffering from major disease
so he/she can trust the care taker that they cannot share their personal information to the
another person so that their trust can be maintained. It reflects the principle of care.
 Effective communication is the major importance of the principle of care in which
information can be transfer by using two ways that are verbal and non verbal. In this a
person who cares can share their ideas and an individual can share their issues with the
care workers that helps in developing the relationship between these two parties. This
helps in solving the problem of the person so that they can enjoy their life appropriately.
Maslow's need Hierarchy theory
It is the best hierarchy theory that supports the human centred design in which several
aspects are to be included that are material, infrastructure, layout that is effective for facilitating
the patient preferred practices. It is very useful to transforming the organisational culture where
the person who needs care experiences the high services.
It is the first aspect in which a caretaker person can focus on examine the optimal
experience related to patients. In this the service company can focus on providing the natural
light to their patients equally without any discrimination. It is also effective for nurses as they
can exposed the nature views and improving the alertness and also eliminates the stress.
In this safety and security needs practitioner can focus on the customers priorities related
to patient care. It is very effective in principle of care to remove the errors related to medical and
many other viruses. For instance- In this if a person is highly aware about the patient safety
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issues as they can taken take of preventing and reducing the infection so that patient are getting
satisfied.
In the third tier patients rooms are to be designed effectively that is very essential within
the principle of care. It is very necessary so that patients are to be familiar and cannot feel
depressed. In this standardised headwalls are to be offers to the patients without any
discrimination that reflected as a multiple care of patient care.
In this tier a person can focus on accomplishing the targets related to taking care of
patients and getting the best outcomes. In this a person who is treated within the hospital and
recover and at the time of discharge care take can take the proper follow up of their patient
including proper therapy so that they recover very effectively and return to their regular work.
Mention about impact of legislation, policy, code of conduct, regulation and standards, USE
Example to discuss about the impact of each
The Impact of the legislation is positive for the vulnerable people because the laws are
very helpful to taking care of them. IN this the care act 2014 helps in safeguarding the interest
of the people and also keep them safe by protecting from abusing and threatened negatively. It
can be understood by an example in which a person is suffering from mental illness then they
could get the proper treatment and medication that is beneficial and effective for a person who
belongs to vulnerable category. Other grandness of legislation in protecting the right of
vulnerabilities is offering them the protection. In this a doctor or a care worker can take the
initiative to protect the health and social care of those person who need this and offers the
adequate level of support. Another importance of the legislation within the protection of
vulnerable people is the prevention of harm. In this government of the country pass the law that
is Human rights act 1998 in which a care person can deal with the issue of patient that are
related to the vulnerable category so that they can protect them from the further major
consequences. This also helps in handle the situation in an effective way. The major importance
of the Health and safety at work law is that it displays the social care so that organisation can
ensure that they can analyse the risk of the low class workers and work for protecting their rights.
It will encourage the people of society to focus on vulnerable people health and social care.
In policies, care taking organisation can highly emphasis on implementing the proper
policies that helps in taking care of the vulnerable people. For instance- A Vulnerable people is
suffering from the mental illness then they are treated very effectively under the policies related
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to fair treatment. For this they can adopts the use of technology to removing the illness and
understand the illness.
In code of conduct aspect, issue in care and control is misdiagnoses that will affect a
safety of patient on a par where providers are not effectively measure the problem or track them.
For example- In this people of vulnerable society are majorly affected with this issues as care
taker are not effectively focus on their health and their problems because they are the belong to
the below poverty line, and also disable because of any disease
Another major issue in care and control is misdiagnoses that will affect a safety of patient
on a par where providers are not effectively measure the problem or track them. For example- In
this people of vulnerable society are majorly affected with this issues as care taker are not
effectively focus on their health and their problems because they are the belong to the below
poverty line, and also disable because of any disease(Diffey, 2016).
Another issue in health and social care is the safeguarding the vulnerable people
effectively and efficiently so that they also live their life appropriately without facing any
abusing from the society people. In today’s scenario many people are not in favour of caring of
vulnerable people due to their safety in care are the major issues. In this government legislation
related to saving the rights of vulnerable people is beneficial and also helps in providing them
respect so that they also sustain in the society with respect, courage.
Within United Kingdom there is a strong legal framework is to be developed for
safeguarding the right of the vulnerable people. In this if a care worker can work in a private or
public sector than they give the services to the people equally even to the vulnerable people and
this represents their responsibilities towards them. The major importance of the legislation in the
protection of vulnerable people is to protect their life and provide safety from being threatened or
abuse them. Under this legislation, care people offers the extra care to the vulnerable people such
as children, minority people, old people etc. Within the legislation, safeguarding the people is
reflecting an effective way to stop the any kind of mistreatment that are physical, emotional.
Financial and mental(Lopez-Calle and et. al., 2017). Some of the major importance of legislation
in protecting the vulnerable people in health and social care can be elaborated below:
 The first and foremost importance of legislation is protecting the people that suffer from
mental illness. For example – if a vulnerable person who is a service user is affected from
mental illness than they will take the advantage of the imposed legislation government in
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which they can properly focus on all their medication and therapy that they need, so that
they will recover soon and live the normal life within the society(Notomi and et. al.,
2015). In this the patient can get the autonomy and respect in a way that they can take
their own decisions related to the health care. In this a person is suffering from mental
illness and cannot in a condition to take their own decision at this time the autonomy
states that the care person can deliver all the information to their immediate family
members it also reflected as a respect in this way they can get the high respect.
Explain about contribution of good practice, ethical dilemmas good and bad practice, Then use
your own experience of good practice
The contribution of good practice is reflected as a exploring and adopting the best
practices at the time of delivering the health and human services. In this a care taker person can
ask the question related to the health of a person so that taking care is to be easy and effective for
the doctors. In this care taker person can effectively communicate with them so that patient can
share all the information effectively. For instance a good practice can be reflected by taking care
of person without any type of discrimination in vulnerable people and other people of the
society. This will reflected as a contribution of the care taker person related to good practice
because in this a person can care another person without any caste, religion and other type of
discrimination. It will satisfying an individual person related to sharing the issues related to their
health without any hesitation.
Ethical dilemma defines as a process of facing problem in the decision making process
between the two basic issues. Ethical dilemmas can be presented within good and bad practice.
In terms of good practice a care taker person can emphasis on identifying the best alternative
solutions related to the issues for satisfying the patient. In this patient can share their problems
and in this care take can focus on solutions so that issues of the patient can be resolved. In this
they can follow the proper code of conducts and maintains the relationshop between patient and
doctors. In this practitioner can follow the strict ethical standards so that mistakes cannot be
taken place. In this nurses get the proper training related to serving the services to patients so that
they can recover very quickly. In this bad practice, ethical dilemmas can show that a care taker
person can give the supports to the vulnerable people for their personal benefits as it helps in
enhancing the image within the marketplace. In this those clients are weak and belongs to the
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low cast are getting the services from the care taker but it is not qualitative in nature as they
cannot pay the proper fees.
Reflection by using Gibbs model
Description- It includes personal experience of a person. In this I have to indulge in a
session of principle of care. In this I got an opportunity to care several types of person so that
they live their life effectively. By involving in this module several challenges are to be faced by
me like taking care of patients, follow proper ethics and code of conduct etc. While facing these
challenges my friends, seniors supports me to work effectively on this and if something go
wrong they helps me out in future.
Feelings- By involving in this module I feel very excited but at the same time feel fear
and stress when some complex situation related to principle of care arise. In this my colleagues
helps in solve issues prominently. In a hospital there are several patients and they all belongs to
several category and treated effectively as per their diseases. In this I feel that a care taker
person can follow the bad and good practice in their offering services. In this they can provide
the high class services to the people who belongs to the good family and also get the care on
priority basis. It will reflected as a good practice where a person get the proper treatment related
to the disease . On the other hand a person who belongs to Vulnerable society can be treated by
the care taker for enhancing the reputation in the society at thios time they cannot offer the
appropriate services to them it will reflects the bad practice.
Evaluation- In this things that are good within this is that I can effectively understand
what are good ethical practice and what are wrong so that task is to be attained on time frame. It
contributes positively on my professional career.
Analysis- In this I can analysed that if a care taker follow proper ethics, code of conduct
than patients share their issues properly without any hesitation. This helps in maintaining strong
relation with patinet so that offering treatment is done in positive manner and all these things
helps in developing growth within professional career.
Conclusion- In this it is concluded that focusing on analysing own skills and knolwdge
within this module helps in developing overall career. It also develops my ethical skills and
understanding which is quite essential to perform task at the time of care a person. It also helps
in facing challenges properly by taking helps of seniors and family.
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Action Plan- Involving in this module helps in gaining several types of knowledge and
skills that are useful in my future when I have participate within this sessions again. At that time
I have to highly focused on ethics and code of conducts so that task are attained effectively so
that providing bad services are avoided. It helps in understanding patient properly.
CONCLUSION
From the above report it is to be concluded that principle of care plays an essential role in
the life of the people while caring and understanding people and also protecting them for the
major issues related to health and social care. As it inculcates the importance of the principle of
care that is effective in understanding the type of care that a person needs and what type of care
they receive which is beneficial for them. It also inculcates the principles of care that may affect
the rights of the vulnerable people in both positive and negative way. Further the issues of care
and control in health and social care helps in understanding the concept of care. In this
legislation in protection of vulnerable people is also inculcation that helps in protecting the rights
of the vulnerable people in the society so that society can transform in an effective way and
looks healthy.
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