Legal, Ethical, and Safety Protocols for Home & Community Services

This assignment comprehensively addresses the legal, ethical, and safety considerations essential for providing effective home and community services. It covers key areas such as privacy, confidentiality, employment discrimination, harm avoidance, and informed consent. The assignment emphasi...Read More

Question 1 A
Question
What are four (4) health and safety legal and ethical factors that you
must consider when providing home and community services? Refer
to any work health and safety legislation, practice standards, basic
home fire safety, etc.
These are some of the health and safety legal along with ethical factors which should
be consider in providing home along with community services.
 Privacy and Confidentiality
 Employment Discrimination
 Harm avoidance
 Consent
Question 1 B
Question
List four (4) legal and ethical factors to ensure dignity, client rights,
professional boundaries, and an abuse-free environment when
providing home and community services.
There are different legal and ethical factors which are effective to ensure client rights, dignity,
professional boundaries and abuse-free environment when providing services in home and
community.
 Informed consent
 Autonomy
 Being professional
 Carefulness
Question 2 A
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What are five (5) topics that should be covered in organisational
policies and procedures?
There are some of the topics which should be covered within organizational policies along with
procedures.

 sexual harassment.
 bullying.
 verbal and physical harassment.
 hiring discrimination.
 workplace discrimination.
Question 2 B
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In your own words, discuss how you must use risk management
practices when working in a client's home.
There is need to use risk assessment for practices within working in clients home. In this, there is
need to identify hazard which is the process to determine the potential cause of harm . Then, there is
need to assess the risk which can be effective to determine the harm that can cause due to hazard .
Then, there is need to control the risk and include implementation of appropriate control measures.
Question 2 C
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Discuss how you would access these organisational policies and
procedures at your workplace.
Organisational policy and procedure can be access as the workplace. In this, there is need to either
go to the reception and ask for the documents which includes policy and procedures . There is need
to use the online internet source that can allow to access the organisational policy and procedure
from organisational website. These are some of the source which is effective and can allow
individual to access the organisational policy and procedure at their workplace.
Question 2 D
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Describe how you would access these procedures—including risk
management procedures—at a client’s home.
In this, procedure can be access at the client's home. Nowadays, internet is available at every
individual home. Due to technology, it can also enable individual to access the internet on their
mobile phones. Through this, there is need to use the search engine that can allow to get access to
the organisational website. From organisational website, it can be easy to identify risk management
procedure even after at clients home.
Question 3 A

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What are two (2) personal safety procedures you could use to protect
yourself?
There are various personal safety procedure which can be effective and can use to protect ownself.
In this, there is need to to use Presence of Mind and aware of surrounding. This an enable to ensure
about the safety. These are the safety procedure that can allow individual to provide safety.
Question 3 B
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What are two (2) personal safety procedures you could use to protect
the client’s property?
There are some of the personal safety procedure which can be used for protecting clients property.
 In this, there is a need to ensure that should be locked which can allow to resist a individual to
enter in clients property.
 There is also need to use the alarm system at client property that can able to provide safety
alert when unauthorised access are tried.
Question 3 C
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To work safely, what are four (4) personal and property procedures
or use of equipment procedures you could follow?
There are some of the personal and property procedure which can be effective and should follow at
work place to get safety from any type of harm.
 In this, there is need to wear protective equipment which can be effective and allow to provide
safety from any type of chemical harm. This can also allowed to get safety from any type of
work-related harm.
 There is also need to follow new procedure of protocol which can allow to stay safe at the
workplace without getting any type of harm due to neglect of safety procedure or protocols.
Question 3 D
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What are four (4) personal security or safety protocols you could
implement while in the client’s home?

There are some of the personal security or safety protocol which should be implemented that can
allow to provide safety and security of clients home.
 In this, there is a need to ensure about the door lock which should be done properly to avoid
any type of neglect or risk.
 There is also need to ensure about the floor that should be dry at all time. This can avoid the
risk of sleep on floor.
 There is also need to have an emergency plan that can help to provide safety and access to
emergency services.
 There is also need to ensure about the alarm system in working condition that can be effective
to provide safety more effectively.
Question 4 A
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What is the name of the national program for home and community
respite care, and what are its three (3) major components?
Name of the national program for the home along with community respite care is Commonwealth
Home Support Programme (CHSP).
 Community and Home Support
 Care Relationships and Carer Support
 Assistance with Care and Housing
 Service System Development
Question 4 B
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What is the name of the care program for Australian veterans? Who
is eligible for this program and what services does it provide?
The name of the care program for Australian veterans is known by The Veterans' Home Care (VHC).
The veterans home care provide various services which may include personal care, domestic
assistance, respite care like in home, emergency and residential and safety related with home and
garden maintenance. This program is eligible for senior veterans for war widow or widower and a
range of age care services.
Question 4 C
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What is the main goal of these care and support programs in the
community?
There is one of the main goal for providing care and support program in the community . It is to
provide better healthcare services and safety at their home and workplace. This can also enable to
achieve better quality of life. Through getting better quality of services for own safety and
performing work at workplace.
Question 4 D
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Conduct your own research about national, state or territory
community care directions to determine their focus of home and
community support?
Through own research it has been identified that community care direction for determining own
focus of home and community support. This can allow every individual to get safety at their home or
at their property. In this, it can also enable every individual to improve their quality of life and
staying safe at either workplace or at their home. This can also enable them to live quality of life
without any type of fear, harm or neglect.
Question 5 A
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What are four (4) approaches you could use to help identify the
needs and goals of the client as part of the person-centred approach?
There are some of the approach which can be help to identify needs and goal of clients as part of
person-centered approach.
 Respecting individual
 Treating people with dignity
 Maintaining confidentiality
 Coordinating care
Question 5 B
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Discuss why consumer-directed care is important when supporting
clients.

Consumer-directed care is highly effective approach that can help for planning and management of
care and allow consumer to use their power to influence design and delivery of their services. This
can enable to offer better choice and flexibility to consumer. It can also enable them to control over
their care and services they receive.
Question 5 C
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Explain the difference between empowerment and disempowerment
towards clients?
Empowerment requires individual to take care and help to make choices regarding their care with
including their options. These are identified by their doctors. Whereas, disempowerment refers to
taking away power from the individual. This may include taking the rights of individual from get in
any type of services or medication. This can make individual to feel helpless and not having control
on their lives.
Question 5 D
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Why must you empower a client instead of disempowering them?
What are two (2) strategies you can use to support their
empowerment?
There is need to empower client instead of disempowering them. Through this, it can enable them
to motivate to have control on the receiving healthcare services. This can enable them to believe in
their healthcare services and allowed to improve their health physically and mentally. There are two
different strategy that can be used to support plants empowerment. These may include autonomy
and encouraging.