Ethical Dilemmas In Health And Social Care

Communication is a very important aspect of health and social care. There are four very important things that need to be taken into consideration to make sure communication with anyone is successful. The four key aspects are to prevent misunderstanding, meet individual needs, build a relationship, and developing self-esteem.
Any misunderstanding can be prevented by clear speech, appropriate language, matching verbal and non-verbal communication, checking understanding and asking questions. A good understanding needs to be met for all tasks in any care setting, for example, good understanding between two carers to follow each other’s instructions to get a patient out of bed needs to be done without any injury to themselves or the patient. Preventing misunderstanding between other health care works (e.g. other nurses/doctors if the patient is being handed over into different people’s care), to avoid misunderstanding, making sure the new carers get all the patient’s notes, they need to ask any question’s if they are unsure of anything (they could ask the previous carers, the patient’s family or the patient themselves).
If the individual’s needs are not met, they may be given incorrect treatment. For example, if a person can dress them self, but that hasn’t been put across by written information or discussed with the patient, they may feel the carers are trying to do too much, so patients must be asked if they need help or not with tasks such as needing help with dressing, toileting, feeding etc. by the