Health and Care Settings
There are many different Health and Social Car settings, there is residential care, day care, nursing care and domiciliary care. After working in day care for my placement, I have seen that it is important to recognise equality, especially with kids, you can be favourable to one, as the others will get jealous, but can also be applied to other social care settings.
It would not be equal treatment in a Health and care setting to two different people, from different cultural backgrounds, with information about a treatment or services available to them, written in English, if for example one of them spoke another language and could not understand the English.
With so many different people living in and around us, we must be diverse, to give proper care. Staff in care settings need and must value diversity and not give favourable treatment to certain groups of people at the expense of those whom they hold prejudices against.
Care workers can actively promote equality and individual rights in health and social care by treating everyone equally regardless of their colour, age, gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation disability etc, different people have different needs, so individuality should be taken into account.
Rights
The Rights of clients in a health and social care setting are some of the following:
- Protection of Life
- Freedom from inhuman treatment
- Right to respect for privacy
- Freedom of expression
- Freedom of thought, conscience and religion
Below you will find a table with words and terms used in the health and social care settings of many places, from schools/colleges, hospitals, work and many other such areas.
Conclusion
In my opinion Equality and Diversity are not just minority issues, everyone is affected, and as we become more global, we are becoming more diverse. Equality and Diversity are both important and must be approached together.
If you can treat people with respect, not prejudge them then we can get to know them, work together for the better.
