Unit 5 Assignment: Meeting Individual Care Needs - Ethical Frameworks

This report delves into the application of ethical theories and legislation within healthcare, focusing on the provision of individual care and support. It begins by defining and describing three key ethical theories: consequentialism, deontology, and principlism, highlighting their significance for healthcare professionals in meeting individual needs. The report then explores the practical application of these theories through case studies involving Brenda, a patient with mental health issues, and Maria, a caregiver for her mother with dementia. It analyzes the advantages and disadvantages of each theory, offering recommendations for their effective use. Furthermore, the report examines ethical legislation and codes of practice, including the Human Rights Act, Mental Capacity Act, and Care Act, emphasizing their role in guiding healthcare practices and ensuring the rights and well-being of service users. Through a scenario involving Patrick, the report illustrates the practical application of these ethical frameworks. The report provides a comprehensive overview of the ethical considerations vital for delivering high-quality, patient-centered care.

Unit 5 Meeting Individual Care
And Support Needs- Lab
Providing Support For
Individuals In The Community

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
TASK 2 ...........................................................................................................................................1
ETHICAL THEORIES....................................................................................................................1
P3 Describe the three ethical theories and their importance in using for support to needs of
individuals by health professionals ?..........................................................................................1
M3 Describe use of ethical theories with Brenda and Maria?....................................................2
D2 advantages and disadvantage of these theories including recommendations........................3
TASK 3 ...........................................................................................................................................3
ETHICAL LEGISLATION AND CODES OF PRACTICE...........................................................3
P3 Describe ethical legislation?..................................................................................................3
M3 D2 Describe use of ethical legislation and codes of practice with give scenario.................5
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES ...............................................................................................................................9

INTRODUCTION
There are various ethical theories are occur which help in delivering services among
people. As people have high number of consideration which is needed to be consider by health
professionals so that they can take action which can benefit with in their services. There are
some ethical legislation and codes of practices also occur which provide rights of human in their
care and services (Leminen, 2016). These are used by health and social care organisation from
which health professionals can provide appropriate care and services to people. In this report,
ethical theories are described in context of given case which provide support to individuals. In
addition to this, the importance of ethical legislation and codes of practices also describe which
provide support and needs to service users.
TASK 2
ETHICAL THEORIES
P3 Describe the three ethical theories and their importance in using for support to needs of
individuals by health professionals ?
Consequentialism:- this theory is a form of ethic norms which state that consequences
are the one's which is based upon right and wrong judgement about any conduct.
Deontology:- this theory depends on the morality of action that is depend on the
availability of rules which express right and wrong of any action.
Principlism:- this is an biomedical ethics which is use in structure of other ethical
principles such as beneficence, nonmaleficence, justice and autonomy.
Importance of these theories by health professionals to support needs of individual
Importance of Consequentialism:- this theory is important in health care professionals as
it provides moral goods which affect decision making of health in order to achieve great number.
This theory provides feasibility for health care professionals so that they can produce practical
judgements in needs of individual. The example of this theory is explain by John Stuart Mill and
Jeremy Bentham of utilitarianism (Price, 2016). They explain that actions are should develop on
the basis of consequences. As the consequences are based on happiness that created from the
action of consequences. According to both of them, experiencing happiness leads to experiencing
lack of pain and pleasure. The impact of using consequentialism in health and social care is
occur from various examples. It includes when a health care professionals make decision
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according to consequences that is offensive, even it is good among individual. It can be used by
health professionals so that they can build positive relationship with other individuals. They can
consider the consequences of some action by judging or considering the norms of individual.
Importance of Deontology:- it is important in health and social care as it provides actions
that are depends on action that is morally good for individual. This theory does not consider
consequences. It also focuses on rules that provides action such as rules of rights, ethics and
justice that can develop set of outcome (Knapp, 2018). This can be used by health professionals
in health and social care as they can judge action of individuals from which they can provide
ethics of services to them. According to Kant, the action of human can be analyse by their will.
Importance of Principlism:- the importance of this theory is that it provides ethics in
health and social care from which the health professionals can use use ethical principles
individual. This can identify problems and provides solution that is needed to make decision.
This theory can used as it provides less harm to individual who are associated with services. This
prevents from rights and ethics of people so that they can provide appropriate resources to
individual.
M3 Describe use of ethical theories with Brenda and Maria?
Importance of using theories with Brenda
It is important to use this theories as Brenda has mental ill health problem along with
severe asthma. She forgets to take her medicine due to her ill problems. As she have past bad
experiences which need to consider at time of delivering services to her. She is abuse by male in
her past so she does not want any male specialist in her treatments. The health professionals can
consider these theories while treating her as she wants all her treatments to be assured by her and
all records should be confidential so that it can retain securely (Rothman, 2018). The theory of
Principlism can be used by health professionals so that they can build positive relationship with
Brenda. As she have some concern about her services that need to be consider by health
professionals so that they can deliver proper care and services to her. The patient wants to make
confidentiality of her treatment that should consider by health professionals. By considering
theories they can analyse the morality of action that help them in analysing between right and
wrong.
Importance of using theories with Maria
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the Maria is facing various problems as her mother has dementia problem which also
develops pother problems in her life. The health professionals can use ethic rules so that they can
implment various action by identifying that it is right or wrong. With the help of deontology, the
health professional can apply action on the basis of set rules. As with this care workers provide
support to Maria with the help of community care assistant. The assistant helps her mother in
dressing in days when Maria attend her school. The health professional can use theories which
helps in identify consequences of their action that they are using on Maria and on her mother.
D2 advantages and disadvantage of these theories including recommendations.
There are various advantages and disadvantage of this theory as with the use of
Consequentialism, the health professional can identify right and wrong on the basis of
consequences. Its disadvantage is that sometimes consequences can be good while its action is
different from it. The Deontology provides realization of action on the basis of action that are
occur on the basis of set rules. The disadvantage of this theory is that the consequences may
occur negative which impact on health of individual (Falk and Dierking, 2018). The Principlism
theory is benefit in the services as health professional can provide care and services by
considering autonomy of patients. This theory does not guide health professional directly in their
action.
This theory helps in fulfilling the needs and building up relationship with Brenda as
health professional can consider norms of Brenda. They involve less people in her care and
records should be confidential among all services. This develops effective relationship with
Brenda and with this she is able to convey more about her mental condition. This is also helps in
building relationship with Maria as they can provide care and services to her mother which
develop relationship in between health professional and Maria. This has been recommended that
use of ethical theories can provide appropriate care and services to both Brenda and Maria. The
appropriate care and services can be deliver by considering action of consequences.
TASK 3
ETHICAL LEGISLATION AND CODES OF PRACTICE
P3 Describe ethical legislation?
The ethical legislation refers to some principles that are connected with in system of
organisation that help in guiding decisions. This also influence in behaviour from which health
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care professionals can conduct their behaviour to service users. The main of ethical laws is to
provide services by health care professional in health and social care services so that right
services can be delivered to them (Iaione, 2016). The purpose of this laws is to conduct
appropriate members which have proper guidelines so that they can provides ethical choices to
service users. By using ethical rules in work setting, the health care professional can provide
services according to the guidelines. There are various different acts that comes under ethical
rules and regulation which are described below.
Human right act:- this act refers to rights of human that is necessary to consider at time
of delivering services to service users. The main aim of this act is to provide human rights to all
people whether they are rich, old, young and poor. They have some sort of rules which stated
that human have freedom from torture and they have right to live with liberty and security. This
framework help in health and social care from which service providers can provide services to
public by maintaining their dignity while providing services to them.
Mental capacity act:- this act provides legal framework for those people who has are not
able to take their decisions appropriately. There is time when people lose capacity to take
decision. This act provides clear outline to these people so that they can take proper decisions in
their health services. This protects autonomy of individual which enhance them in attaining more
services. This act concern about those people who have low mental capacity (Wallerstein, 2017).
It also develops more interest about service users from which they show at time of taking
decision. From this, care professional can provide appropriate care and services according to
their mental health.
National health service act:- this act provide enactments to all health care services this
provides empower to patients so that they can provide a focuses in health of public. It provides
services providers to innovate services with in health of public.
Mental health act:- this act provide power to health professionals from which they can
provide appropriate care by considering mental disorders of people. This provides an outline to
professional from which they can assess treatments to people by interest of health and safety of
people.
Equality act:- this act refers to providing equality of cafe to all people. There are many
people who does not attain equal amount of care and services which are delivering to other
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people. This act is implemented by local authorities and other health care services from which
they can provide equal care services to all people.
Care act:- this act works to improve health and well-being of people. This act state that
health and social care organisation must provides care and services. They must provide or
arrange services so that needs of care and support can be prevented among people (Burden,
2016). The care must provide by the consideration of care act so that services does not harm
people. It provides safeguarding to people so that they can not any type of neglect and abuse.
Clinical Commissioning Groups:- this refers to groups who are responsible for
commissioning care and health services of patients. They use some rules and regulation from
which they provide proper care services to people.
Decision Support Tool:- this tool is used in funding decision of health care system. This
is used to record evidence of care and services of individual. This assist in determining
continuity about funding of health care.
Code of practice:- this refers to set of rules which occur for professionals which describe
that professional must required to conduct rules and regulation in their behaviour while
delivering care to service users. It includes principles, considering respect and dignity for
patients which help in providing quality of care to people.
M3 D2 Describe use of ethical legislation and codes of practice with give scenario.
Use of ethical legislation and codes of practice with Patrick
the human rights state that each individual has rights from which they can live their life
according to them. This act influence various ethical decisions from which needs of Patrick can
be fulfilled. It is important to conduct this act in services of Patrick as his partner James is in
relationship with other human who is having HIV. There are some needs of Patrick which may
reduce by arise of this factor. The Patrick concern with his difficulties to health professional
Simon which assist him in his concern. He wants to maintain confidentiality about his matter
which is consider by his health professional (Potter, 2016). This develop positive impact on
Patrick which makes him to express his concern about no longer be a part of martial art club
member if he become a HIV positive. The health professional provide believes to him that her
matter is remain confidential between them and it no longer express to anyone with in centre.
The Patrick have more concern about his living status as he does not want to disclose with his
landlord. Their are various conflicts arise in Patrick and James life. But with this act, the health
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professional and general practitioner assured him to provide all facilities with proper ethics. This
act is necessary to be occur in care services of Patrick as it provides vulnerability which result in
providing more services to him. The use of human act rights provides appropriate care and
services according to needs of Patrick. The Clinical Commissioning Groups and Code of practice
is necessary to be consider by health professional while delivering and consulting with Patrick.
The health professional can use these codes by maintaining confidentiality of matter of Patrick.
The CCG can address various issues of testing condition about HIV in both people (Gravetter
and Forzano, 2018). The groups can provides guidelines to general professional is that they must
conduct test by maintaining quality so that it does not harm others. It helps in overcoming
challenges as Patrick has some needs regarding his concern which is easily fulfil by use of CCG
in his services. This helps in providence guidance to general practitioner from which he agree to
maintain confidentiality about matter of Patrick. This provides positive impact on Patrick life.
Use of ethical legislation and codes of practice with Brenda
There are various issues occur in Brenda's life as she is suffering from mental health
problems and asthma. Due to his mental health problems, sometimes she forget to receive proper
medication on time of asthma. This act is important in needs of Brenda as she wants to make her
care plan according to her. This involves general practitioner, specialist of asthma and others
which provides acre according to needs of her. The human rights act stated that each individual
have rights to express their views in their services. This act is used with in the condition of
Brenda so that her health and well-being can be improved. The advocate is appointed who spent
time with Brenda so that he can know about her views related to her services and care (Mozley,
2017). This is necessary to implement by health professional and general practitioner as she is
highly concern about her treatments. The Brenda wants to make confidentiality about his records
and it also includes assurance of her treatment including her concern must be implement at time
of delivering services to her. The general practitioner use this act in services which provides
improving well-being of Brenda. They conduct some strategies while implementing act in care
and services of Brenda. They also provide asthma specialist at her home so that her
confidentiality about her condition can be maintained. The availability of advocate provide
proper available of resources to her. The Clinical Commissioning Groups and Code of practice
helps in removing conflicts that is occur in services of Brenda. These groups consider all
requirements of Brenda from which they provide availability of specialist to her home. This help
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in delivering appropriate care and services to her. The general practitioner also uses Decision
Support Tool which help in finding evidence about care and services that is providing to her.
This result in developing appropriate services according to requirements of Brenda (Horton,
2018).
Use of ethical legislation and codes of practice with Maria
The human rights stated that each individual has right to live fully with satisfying his
needs. The Maria's mother has issues in dementia which also arise problems with in life of her.
Due to her mother problem , she has to wake up all night in order to take care of her mother. This
condition develop various problems in her day activities as she is not able to receive proper sleep
which required in her occupation. The health care professional and general practitioner has
review her reports has analysed that she is taking tablets for a year about there is no
improvement occur in his health (Fain, 2017). The various community and general practitioner
suggest her to place her mother in nursing care home so that her condition can be maintain
properly. But she refused to do this and agreed to provide a care at her home which can take care
condition of her mother at day time. The Maria is concern about her occupation which is affected
by her mother condition. She speaks to her general practitioner which arranged a meeting
between her and her head. This conflicts is resolved by providing some leaves to her so that she
can improve her and health and well-being. The other consideration is also given to her by
reducing her working hours in her job. The five step frame work also influence in taking ethical
decision so that Maria needs can be fulfil. As this provides responsibility so that general
practitioner can respect needs of human rights and their culture. This help in removing
challenges that may arise in matter of Maria. As it provides identification of issues
systematically which help in overcoming challenges that arise in her condition.
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CONCLUSION
From the above report, it has been concluded that the ethical theories can help in
determining action that provides right and wrong about the consequences. There are different
theories that help in providing right action of consequences properly. There are various ethical
legislation occur which consider the ethics of people in services. The CCG and codes of practices
also uses with in services which provides proper care and services according to needs and
requirements to people.
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