Ethical Principles Within the healthcare field‚ a worker will have to make some ethical decisions. These decisions may be easy‚ but most will be hard to make. There are certain code of ethics a healthcare worker needs to follow in order to create the best work environment for them and for the patients. These are set so that everyone has an equal understanding of the ethics. One example from the code of ethics is‚ “the health care worker provides adequate and continuous care for all patients regardless
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The first step to establish negligence is to decide whether the defendant owe a duty of care to the plaintiff. The defendant is obliged to take reasonable care to its neighbor. Neighbors are persons who are so closely and directly affected by ma act that I ought reasonably to have them in contemplation as being so affected when I am directing my mind to the acts or omissions which are called in question: Donoghue v Stevenson. Thus‚ the damages occurred must be reasonably foreseeable. In this case
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legally known as Swindon Primary Care Trust Note: This document is electronically controlled. The master copy is maintained by the Clinical Governance Department. If this document is printed it becomes uncontrolled. Bed safety rails policy and procedures Operational Issue 3 Approved 12/07/2011 Expiry 11/07/2013 Page 1 of 27 Document Control Purpose Owner Author Applies to Implementation date Date of review Expiry date Link to Care Quality Commission (CQC) Essential
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Discuss the grounds of termination of contract and remedies available for breach of contract. Further‚ discuss the most appropriate remedy (in your opinion) for breach of contract in a market economy. Grounds of Termination of Contract: Termination of a contract takes place when the parties to the contract are released from their contractual obligations. Contract termination may take in a number of ways which are: 1. By breach of contract. A breach of contract takes place when a party fails to
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Sales of Goods Act 1893 provides the definition of ‘condition’ and ‘warranty’. During the period between 1893 to 1962 both ‘condition’ and ‘warranty’ was generally accepted that they were the only two types of terms which assist in ‘identifying the breaches which entitled the injured party to terminate the contract. In the turning point of 1962‚ a new type of term-intermediate term brought about a whole new page into the Law of Contract. Hong Kong Fir Shipping Co. Ltd vs Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha Ltd is
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available for breach of contract When signing a contract not only are you agreeing to the terms of this contract you are agreeing to the consequences if breach the contract. There are many remedies available if one of the party’s breaches the contract and if the party who breached the contract doesn’t agree to the consequences then the matter will be taken to court. A breach of contract can be defined as a party failing to perform‚ precisely and exactly‚ his obligations under the contract. However a
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What are warranties Warranties are different to the automatic consumer guarantees‚ warranties are not compulsory‚ they are the voluntary promise made by the person or business who sold the consumer the goods or services. Once the consumer buys the product or service‚ the promise becomes a right that can be enforced under the Australian Consumer Law. The warranty can be expressed via different ways‚ it can be presented verbally or in writing. These extra promises are about the quality or standard
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Principles of Practice Introduction In this assignment I intend to describe through examples‚ from my experience‚ how legal and organizational are applied to ensure that the rights of individual are met‚ I purpose regulations‚ codes of practices‚ standards and guidance relevant to working in health and social care setting. I will also be analysing the implications for own practices of legislation
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Standard 6 Principles of safeguarding in health and social care Your N ame: Workplace: Start Date: Completion Date: Contents 1. Recognising signs of harm or abuse 2. Ways to reduce likelihood of abuse 3. Responding to suspected or disclosed ab use 4. National and local context of protection from harm and abuse 5. Questions CIS Assess ment Induction Work book – Six Page 2 of 21 Standard 6 Principles of safeguarding in health and social care 1. Recognising signs of harm
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system that creates a fair‚ honest and equal society. As a nurse this means treating all your patients equally as well as colleagues no matter of their ethnicity‚ religion or culture. For example all patients are included in decisions about their health‚ such as which hospital they receive their treatment at. Empathy is the ability to understand and share the feelings of another‚ in my line of work we have to be sympathetic and have empathy towards all our patients no matter our opinion on the situation
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