A duty of care is a legal obligation imposed on an individual requiring that they adhere to a standard of reasonable care while performing any acts that could foreseeable harm others. A definition from Wikipedia. A duty of care is required in every work place and a greater duty or care is needed especially with younger children being as they are more vulnerable. A duty of care ensures support and care for individuals are provided at the required level within the law and also within the policies and
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Diversity Diversity recognises‚ respect and people’s differences to have a say and to realise the full potential by promoting different cultures to all members of staff and students within a school. Within schools diversity is promoted from an early age because of mixed classes of boys and girls and children from different cultures. Children will learn from being in school that every body’s different but we treat them equally. An example of this is another religion could be in the criteria so
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Nursing staff have a duty of care to their patients to ensure that they are getting the best possible treatment and that they are also being well nourished and hydrated. Nurses must ensure that their patients are getting the required meals throughout the day and that they have access to enough water. When a patient is admitted to their care‚ they would start by making a care plan for them and by doing that‚ they would find out their history‚ any allergies they may have. This gives the nurse the opportunity
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Duty of Care To meet my Duty of Care it is my responsibility to - ( Keep my knowledge and skills up to date ( Provide a quality service based on my skills‚ responsibilities and activities within my job role ( Be in a position to know what must be done to ensure that the service is provided safely ( Keep accurate records of my work‚ both in the patients notes‚ on the computer and in my work diary. ( Not to delegate work‚ or accept delegated work unless I feel I am competent to do the
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Introduction to duty of care in health‚ social care or children’s and young people’s settings. Assignment 205 Task A: Ai & Aii: Please refer to page titled ‘Letter to a friend’. Task B: Bi.The difficulties in this dilemma are upholding Mrs Ahmed’s right to choose and exercising my duty of care‚ in this case they will conflict as my duty of care would be to ensure she wasn’t putting herself in any harm which she would be doing if she were able to eat the food she wants which isn’t recommended
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Several dilemmas have come to light with recent bills. Quite a few have been very controversial in nature. There have been bills proposed over cold beer sales‚ regulation of abortion‚ cannabidiol oil (low THC extract)‚ and Sunday liquor sales. The ethical dilemmas caused people to have strong and mixed feelings about each. In the world of public policy and public administration‚ ethical decisions are not a rare occurrence. This especially true of right versus right decisions. Though it may not seem
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SHC 34.2 Explain how duty of care contributes to the safeguarding or protection of individuals Having a duty of care should guarantee the safeguarding of children in my care. Risk Assessments – carrying out and reviewing risk assessments for all of the activities we do and places we visit ensures that thought and concern is given to how we do things every day‚ this way I ensure risks concerning equipment‚ venues and activities are minimised and therefore reducing the risk of injury or harm
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Collins English Dictionaries (2013) states that “duty of care” is defined as “the legal obligation to safeguard others from harm while they are in your care‚ using your services‚ or exposed to your activities”. In plain terms it is clear to see that there is a direct link between safeguarding and the duty of care that practitioners in the setting have towards the individuals who access the services provided. When an individual accesses the services or takes part in the activities carried out in
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SHC 34 Duty of Care When working you have a duty of care in your own work and this is to pay attention and to keep young children safe as they develop. The younger and more vulnerable a child is‚ the greater the duty of care you have to provide them As a practitioner it is our job to safeguard children daily in various ways to protect them from harm whether it is physical or psychological. We carry out risk assessments in the work setting to avoid any potential hazards; we also set rules and
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health. But what happens when patients are deemed “legally dead” with no brain activity‚ and the only thing keeping their bodies alive are ventilators? Situations like this can cause profound ethical dilemmas between health care providers‚ their patients and family members. Such ethical dilemmas have even been considered in the popular press‚ including the case of 13 year old Jahi McMath who received surgical treatment at Oakland Children’s Hospital in California.
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