P4
Describe how legislation, code of practice, rules of conduct, charters and organisational policies are used to promoting anti-discriminatory practice at Oudrine house.
Legislation: This is a written laws made by Parliament or a provincial
legislature Acts) or by a person or body that has law-making authority, usually
delegated by Parliament or a legislature and exercised by making regulations or other
delegated legislation.
Code of practice: This is a set of rules which everyone in the society is
expected to abide. These rules are compulsory to abide by everyone in the society.
Human rights legislation
The Human Rights Acts 1988. It is yet to predict the implementation of human rights
act 1988.it enables people to enforce their rights under the convention in British court
and other legislation must be compatible with the act.
Article 2 of the human Rights Acts: Protection of life.
The right to life provision of the convention will be very important in health settings.
It will have to consider in matters such as whether to switch off life support systems
and abortion.
Article 3: Prohibition of torture and inhuman and degrading treatment:
The failure to provide proper health care or social care and failure to protect children
from abuse, neglectful treatment of clients may be covered by this article. Refusal of
contract between parents and children in care may be contested on this ground. Life
prolonging treatment which causes pain may be covered.
Article 9: Freedom of thought, conscience and religion.
This article promotes the ability of clients to practice their religion. The rights of
residents in care homes to follow religious practices will be protected.
The Mental Health Act: The mental health Acts are designed to ensure an individual’s rights are not infringed and they are treated in an equitable manner in terms of access to objective assessment and treatment. The Act outlines the arrangements for the compulsory detention of people with mental health needs for assessment or treatment and also includes the guardianship of individuals with mental health needs in the interests of their welfare or for the protection of others.
The Mental Health Act 1983: This act allows someone to be taken to be hospital and
kept there against their will for assessment or treatment if:
*They are suffering from mental disorder
*Being kept in the hospital against their will is the only way to protect their health, to
prevent them from harming themselves or harming others, or to protect others from
harm. This policy also has powers to detain someone in a public place if they have
reason to suspect that they are suffering from a mental disorder.
Patient’s Charter: This promotes equal rights by stating patient’s rights and the
standard that they can expect from services.
Patient’s charter: Everyone has the right under the charter to:
*Decide which pharmacy to use for your prescriptions and have the appropriate drugs
and medicine prescribed.
*Receive health care on the basis of clinical need.
*Get emergency medical treatment at any time
*Be offered a health check when you join a GP’s list
*Receive information about the services your GP provides.
Policy
No Smoking Policy
We all have the right to breathe air that is free from tobacco smoke. You are no longer able to smoke in any enclosed public place or building. You are not allowed to smoke in your own car if it is used on a regular basis to transport people.
If you are caught smoking in a public building for example the college then you could face disciplinary action and even be remove from your course.
Your place of work does not legally have to provide somewhere for you to smoke and can insist you are off the premises completely before lighting up.
Care/nursing homes and mental health hospitals are exempt from the no smoking in an enclosed space. However this does not mean you are allowed to smoke anywhere you want. You must only smoke in the room that has been dedicated solely for the purpose of smoking.
Sex Discrimination: The Act makes it unlawful to discriminate against a person on the ground of their sex or marital status. This legislation applies across all areas of life in education, as a consumer and particularly in relation to the recruitment, selection, promotion or training of personnel.
Sex Discrimination policy
Sexual harassment is unwanted sexual advances in any form. This is irrespective of the victim or predators sexual orientation.
It is against the law to discriminate against somebody because of his or her sex, gender or sexual orientation. Everyone is entitled to be treated in the same way regardless of the above.
You are not allowed to place an advert for a job stating a preference to sex, gender or age and you are also not allowed to pay a man more than a woman who is doing the same job with the same experience.
It should be known that the legislation protects people that are regarded by others to be of a particular sexual orientation. However the law does not protect people because of their involvement of particular sexual practices such paedophilia
Reference:
- Eleanor Langride, 2007, BTEC Health and Social Care Book1, Pages 69,70 and 71, Publisher Nelson Thrones Ltd, Place Delta Place.
- Beryl Stretch and Mary Whitehouse, 2007, BTEC Health and Social Care Book 1, page 50 and 51, Publisher Heinemann, Place Harcourt Education Limited.
Explain how those working in health and social care settings can actively promote anti-discriminatory practice. (P5 and P6) Describe ways of reflecting on and challenging discriminatory issues in health and social care (p6)
I will be explaining how care workers at Oudrain house can promote diversity, equality and respects the right of service users and promote anti-discriminatory.
*Care workers not making assumptions about their service users promote equality,
value diversity and respect rights of the service user.
*Care workers must be ethnically sensitive that is respecting individual’s cultural
values, cultural needs and practices.
*Care workers should not stereotype. They should always respond to individual
uniqueness.
*Care workers should not encourage trainee to develop discriminatory attitudes. Thus
not expressing racial attitudes and actions. They should not become a barrier to good
practices.
*Care workers should develop self-awareness of their own attitude, opinion and views
to make them confident in their interaction.
*Taking steps to learn about people’s culture and perspectives of life.
*Making sure that they focus on fostering, and maintaining the dignity of service
user’s. Like using the preferred name to address the individual.
*Empowering service user. That is enabling service users to take control of things
such as decision making by providing them with choice. Care workers having powers
over services users are discriminating.
*Care workers should learn about service users’ beliefs, pratices, values and life
experience of service users. This can be done through staff training sessions, picking
up information on the internet and talking to service users about their background,
beliefs and culture.
*Care workers should encourage reflection, to promote healthy attitudes, to look
critically at whatever the service user is actually doing in their day-to-day task.
*Knowing how to challenge discriminatory pratice.This is reporting direct and
indirect discriminatory behaviour.
*Seeking up to date training so that they can consider issues and learn sharing with
others.
Care worker can promote equality for service users
*Giving out information to the client about the service they offer.
*Care worker should put posters around the care home so that service users know what is going on at the care home.
*Care worker should give out information to client about the service they offer.
*Care workers having one to one meeting with the service users, thus allowing them to express their right.
The procedures that could be taken to challenge discrimination are:
*Making sure all workers and clients are warned to avoid discrimination in the health and social care sector.
*By offering services in different term, to identify the key element of anti-discriminatory practice in relation to these different.
*Anybody who discriminates can face charges.
The procedures that can be put in place are
*There should be guest speaker to talk to them about discrimination and the effects.
*There should be discussion so that workers do not forget the rules of discrimination.
*There should be regular meetings to remind staff about the service they should offer.
One way a social care setting can challenge anti discriminatory is through staff development and training this may be done formally through supervision sessions or more informally in the course of day to day working. The manager should supervise the work of their staff, offer advice and guidance in difficult situations and help the workers identify training opportunities to improve their practise.
Organisational polices also play a big factor when trying to reflect on and challenge discriminatory issues in health and social care. Organisation polices will regulate workers day to day relations with their service users .There should be policies on vulnerable service users, as well as service standards to inform workers and service users about expected standards and equal opportunities.
Many service users are reluctant to ask for support and will try to deal with issues themselves. Therefore providing active support requires a sensitive approach.
Support can take many forms and it is important to recognise both the forms and the amounts of support that may be required. All of our service users are individuals and therefore need vary amounts of support, in some cases on daily basis. Individuals needs to be protected from harm and allowed access to information. They also need to be cared fro in a way that meets their needs and takes account of their choices, and protects.
The role of work practises in promoting service users rights is particularly important. A few examples of these appropriate work practises include service users being able to protect their private space, to lock the door of their room and expect staff to ask permission before entering. All service users should have the choice over what to eat, what to wear, what activities they are addressed by staff and workers, as well as when to get up, have meals and even when to bath. But above all of these suggested and appropriate work practises, dignity and privacy must be particular consideration when helping service users with intimate care tasks. Care should be offered in way that maximises independence and should also be encouraged to do things for themselves, rather than the worker taking over to save time. All care and work practises must be approached with a great degree of tact and support, as all service users are valued and important.
References:
- Eleanor Langride, 2007, BTEC Health and Social Care Book1, Page 69,70 and 71, Publisher Nelson Thrones Ltd, Place Delta Place.
- Beryl Stretch and Mary Whitehouse, 2007, BTEC Health and Social Care Book 1, page 50 and 51, Publisher Heinemann, Place Harcourt Education Limited.
M2 Explain difficulties that may be encountered when implementing anti-discriminatory practice.
The very nature of health and social care work suggests that the individuals being supported are vulnerable. As we seen through this unit, this vulnerability is often related to ‘difference ‘in terms of capability or levels of independence. Vulnerability may be related to physical, emotional, financial or social well-being. Sometimes this vulnerability may include being vulnerable to discrimination but views of which is likely to be prejudice. For example, staff can label clients as being ‘difficult’; or having, challenging behaviour’. Promoting equality by treating everyone the same denies the reality that everyone is different and so we should be striving to promote equity where these essential differences are acknowledged and people are seen treated as individuals but with an equal amount of care, respect and attention, and the quality is the same but the responses are individual.
Ethical principles
Ethical principles are those which can be judged fair. Positive ethical approaches to health and social care practice are essential if individual being supported are to be treated with equity.
Dealing with conflict
Conflict should be managed in as clam a manner as possible and, if possible, help from colleague should be sought so that everyone involved can be adequately supported and listened to in order to avoid assumptions and judgements, which may be discriminatory, being made. An important part of anti-discriminatory practice is ensuring that health and social care workers to challenging the attitude view or behaviour, and not the person as an individual.
Putting the patients or service user at the heart of service provision
Ensuring that every individual who comes into contact with any type of health or social care service is treated as a unique individual is essential if this is to be achieved. Health and social care workers need to take time to get to know and build relationships with individual s if they are to be beliefs, culture and preferences. This will enable the worker to better understand the individual’s past and thus their present situation, and will inform decisions regarding their future.
Balancing individual rights with the rights of others
Having rights also means the individual has responsibilities and this includes not infringing the rights of others. Balancing individual rights with the rights of others can present health and social care workers with some difficult dilemmas, tensions and potential and actual conflicts. These can occur between service users, the service user and the organisation, and between the worker and the organisation. For example, if one service user has a hearing impairment and consequently when they listen to music it is louder than others have a right to peace and quit. This can lead to conflict. One way of easing this tension and avoiding conflict is to provide earphones for the service user.
Identifying and challenging discrimination
Challenging discrimination shows that in fact, you are not discriminating against those whose behaviour, view; attitudes and so on are discriminatory. If we fail to challenge such views or behaviours, it suggests that we have made a decision or assumption about person’s capacity to change, and we assume their views are so entrenched that they are incapable capacity, which in itself is discriminatory. The way we challenge is what is important. It is therefore essential to challenging the attitude, view or behaviour, and not the person as an individual. Being respectful and assertive are key attitudes and values when challenging someone. Challenging discrimination may be on an organisation or society level. Although individual can feel powerless to change things outside their immediate sphere of influence, it is not impossible to challenge discrimination that is institutional or structural.
References:
- Eleanor Langride, 2007, BTEC Health and Social Care Book1, Page 49, Publisher Nelson Thrones Ltd, Place Delta Place.
- Beryl Stretch and Mary Whitehouse, 2007, BTEC Health and Social Care Book 1, page 50 and 51, Publisher Heinemann, Place Harcourt Education Limited.
M3 Analyse how personal beliefs a value systems may influence own anti-discriminatory practice.
Personal beliefs and value systems
Our personal beliefs and values play role in our responses to difference. We are all unique individuals and our identity develops as we grow, learn and experience life and new things. Many different factors influence that we all have an individual views of the world which is unique and unless we share our views with other people remains unknown to them.
Developing greater self- awareness and tolerance of differences
If individual are given access to appropriate opportunities, such as learning about equality and diversity, personal experiences of relationships with people from diverse backgrounds, they respect and trust, this can assist them to develop greater self-awareness and tolerance of difference. However, it is important to recognise that our views and beliefs can change as we travel through life and our experiences teach us new things about the world and about ourselves, so there is always the potential for change whatever someone’s age.
Working within legal, ethical and policy guidelines
Health and social care practice is underpinned by legislation, ethics and other from research and government. All of those will be reflected within organisational policies. However, their mere existence dose not guarantees automatic implantation and adherence. In reality, this can be achieved through the day-to –day practice, attitudes and behaviours of all those who work within care setting. There have to be regular supervision of practice will enable the health and social care workers to make them work within legal, ethical and policy guidelines.
Committing to the care value base
To enable became a health and social care worker will involve you considering you own beliefs and values and how theses impact on your life, behaviour, decision and relationships with others. Some care workers are often not aware of the prejudices and assumption they hold as they are so ingrained in their thinking. We need to be open to challenging our thinking and to exploring these aspects of ourselves. If we are to be effective in developing supportive relationships with individuals then we must understand ourselves first, otherwise we are in danger of discriminatory action and becoming part of the problem and not of the solution in that individual’s life. To enable an effective health or social care worker you need to internalise these values and demonstrate them in every aspect of life.
References:
- Eleanor Langride, 2007, BTEC Health and Social Care Book1, Page 49, Publisher Nelson Thrones Ltd, Place Delta Place.
- Beryl Stretch and Mary Whitehouse, 2007, BTEC Health and Social Care Book 1, page 50 and 51, Publisher Heinemann, Place Harcourt Education Limited.
- Handouts from tutor
Evaluate practical strategies to reconcile own beliefs and values with anti-discriminatory practice in health and social care. (D2)
I will be explaining the practical strategies that could be performing to harmonise own
beliefs and values anti- discriminatory practise in Oudrain house environment.
I will explain the practical strategies that I could perform to harmonise my own
beliefs and values with anti-discriminatory practice in health and social care.
It is important to challenge your own beliefs and value in order for you to learn and
understand about other people’s beliefs and values, at times what we believe may not
be true. It is important to challenge own discriminatory beliefs and values because as
a carer working in a health environment, you should respect everybody equally and
also promote their rights in their own practise to make sure the service user are treated
with respect. As a care worker, you can do this by promoting equality and diversity.
The importance of challenging own beliefs and values is that for example, own beliefs
and values sometimes make us assume and stereotype against the service user and it is
used to devalue the clients. It is important to change own beliefs and values from
learning new things about different cultures, lifestyles and religion.
Abortion
I would discriminate thought against the service user who does abortion. Abortion is
not good and it is the act of killing the innocent baby that is coming to the world. Also
I thought that people who are into abortion are capable of killing. This is an act of
murder. The reason why I discriminate against people who does abortion is because
this can cause some disability health condition such as infertility and at times death.
I will try and harmonise my thoughts and values by treating each individual
equally, and by respecting their privacy and interest. The reason being that, I do
not know the reason why she had had the abortion, it could be she is facing
financial or family problem. I do not have to judge people especially if you do not
know them well because it does not means that all people that do abortion can
kill.
H I V PATIENT
As a care worker I would discriminate thoughts against a patient affected by HIV is
because I o not know how the person contacted the disease. I belief it is usually
transmitted through unprotected sex,using needles or syringe that is affected is the
virus. I will discriminate against service users with the virus because I don’t want to
among those people that have been infected.
I will try to harmonised my thoughts and values by researching more on HIV,
going for training courses on how to avoid discriminating on client, asking
professionals on how to work with affected clients and be able to have one to one
conversation with clients and also listen to their views on how they are feeling. I
can also go on the internet and find more about HIV and the way to socialise
with them.
In conclusion, I have explained how I will harmonise my own beliefs and values and my reasons why I have those thought of discrimination about individuals and also how to respect clients.
References:
- Eleanor Langride, 2007, BTEC Health and Social Care Book1, Page 49, Publisher Nelson Thrones Ltd, Place Delta Place.
- Beryl Stretch and Mary Whitehouse, 2007, BTEC Health and Social Care Book 1, page 50 and 51, Publisher Heinemann, Place Harcourt Education Limited.
