Understanding Duty Of Care
Duty of care
Duty of care means providing care and support for individuals within the law and also within the policies procedures and agree ways of working of your employer, it is about avoiding abuse and injury to individuals, their friends and family and their properties.
People do not have their needs met by others, so you have care of duty to them. This involves doing your job to best of your ability, safe guarding them, respecting their uniqueness and worth as a person, maintaining their dignity, and promoting their independence.
Even if you do not feel powerful in relation to the service user, they are likely to perceive you as having power in the relationship because you are an …show more content…
These values involve a common understanding of what health care role is and what it means which will be shared by manager, colleagues and other professionals, as well as (hopefully ) society more generally health care role is
Communicate with people
Understand(assess)and meet people’s needs
Respect differences and promote equality and inclusion for people who may otherwise be excluded from accessing resources
Keeping accurate and up-to-date records.
Work in partnership with other agencies
Keep people healthy and safe, maintaining a safe working environment for yourself and for others.
There is a common set of values, and a common agreement of what the role is and is no.
In a professional relationship as health care we can be friendly with a service user but we are not a service user’s friend .Working with in professional boundaries keeps us focussed on the work we are doing with service user. Without boundaries we may overstep our duties and work outside of safe practice. if It could indicate poor boundaries valuable gifts are exchanged between worker and service user
A worker and service user call each other friends and interact outside of the working environment.
A worker shares personal information with service …show more content…
If policy or procedure do not reflect actual practices in our work setting , part of care means that we either have to change our practice and follow procedure more closely or that we alert manager that the procedure may need to be changed or improved
Duty of care is to respect the service user as individual and minimise risk to service users. In our role we have duty of care to raise any concern we may have about any aspect of our work these can range from inadequate working conditions, poor equipment, poor practise by other staff to raising concern about potential abuse cases and situations of neglect.
It is our duty as health care to safe guard individual from harm any concern of abuse should be reported ,it could include evidence or suspicions of bad practise by colleagues and managers or other individuals or family and friends.
If we do not work in this way , we could be considered negligent or incompetent .If we are in any doubt at any time, we must discus any issues we have with our supervisor or manager.
We must attend our mandatory training to keep us
Duty of care means providing care and support for individuals within the law and also within the policies procedures and agree ways of working of your employer, it is about avoiding abuse and injury to individuals, their friends and family and their properties.
People do not have their needs met by others, so you have care of duty to them. This involves doing your job to best of your ability, safe guarding them, respecting their uniqueness and worth as a person, maintaining their dignity, and promoting their independence.
Even if you do not feel powerful in relation to the service user, they are likely to perceive you as having power in the relationship because you are an …show more content…
These values involve a common understanding of what health care role is and what it means which will be shared by manager, colleagues and other professionals, as well as (hopefully ) society more generally health care role is
Communicate with people
Understand(assess)and meet people’s needs
Respect differences and promote equality and inclusion for people who may otherwise be excluded from accessing resources
Keeping accurate and up-to-date records.
Work in partnership with other agencies
Keep people healthy and safe, maintaining a safe working environment for yourself and for others.
There is a common set of values, and a common agreement of what the role is and is no.
In a professional relationship as health care we can be friendly with a service user but we are not a service user’s friend .Working with in professional boundaries keeps us focussed on the work we are doing with service user. Without boundaries we may overstep our duties and work outside of safe practice. if It could indicate poor boundaries valuable gifts are exchanged between worker and service user
A worker and service user call each other friends and interact outside of the working environment.
A worker shares personal information with service …show more content…
If policy or procedure do not reflect actual practices in our work setting , part of care means that we either have to change our practice and follow procedure more closely or that we alert manager that the procedure may need to be changed or improved
Duty of care is to respect the service user as individual and minimise risk to service users. In our role we have duty of care to raise any concern we may have about any aspect of our work these can range from inadequate working conditions, poor equipment, poor practise by other staff to raising concern about potential abuse cases and situations of neglect.
It is our duty as health care to safe guard individual from harm any concern of abuse should be reported ,it could include evidence or suspicions of bad practise by colleagues and managers or other individuals or family and friends.
If we do not work in this way , we could be considered negligent or incompetent .If we are in any doubt at any time, we must discus any issues we have with our supervisor or manager.
We must attend our mandatory training to keep us