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
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Moral Duty of Care 1 MORAL DUTY OF CARE Moral Duty of Care 2 There are so many challenges when dealing with a sick loved one. But it can even more difficult when they are unable to speak for themselves‚ uninsured
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for implementing duty of care Outcome 1 Understand how duty of care contributes to safe practice. 1.1 Explain what it means to have a duty of care in own work role. Duty of care is to keep the service users safe from harm‚ to put the services user’s interests / beliefs first treating them with dignity and respect. 1.2 Explain how duty of care contributes to the safeguarding or protection of individuals. Duty of care contributes to safe guarding or protection of individuals as you will stop
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EXISTENCE OF A DUTY Before 1932 there was no generalised duty of care in negligence. The tort did exist and was applied in particular situations where the courts had decided that a duty should be owed‚ eg‚ road accidents‚ bailments or dangerous goods. In Donoghue v Stevenson [1932] AC 562‚ Lord Atkin attempted to lay down a general principle which would cover all the circumstances where the courts had already held that there could be liability for negligence. He said: "The rule that you
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implementing duty of care Workplace: Sutton Lodge Student name: Emma Hardwick Date: Feb 2015 Unit 4- Principles for implementing duty of care Outcome 1: Understanding how duty of care contributes to safe practice Outcome 2: Know how to address conflicts or dilemmas that may arise between an individual’s rights and the duty of care. Outcome 3: Know how to respond to complaints Outcome 1: (Knowledge) 1. Explain what it means to have a duty of care in your
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Duty of care is defined as a moral or legal obligation to ensure the safety or well-being of others. This is important because failure to act or help individuals can lead to harm‚ and not ensuring safety of individuals can lead them into far worse circumstances as they do not have the support and protection form service providers. Legal obligation to protect wellbeing and prevent harm: Obligation of care is characterized basically as lawful commitment to dependably act to the greatest advantage
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(Bainbridge & Rickets‚ 2013). 1.4 Ethical dilemmas and conflicts faced by the care workers in health and social setting Dilemma is a situation when an individual faced difficult to make a choice in between two or more alternatives. In care homes‚ regarding patient’s care in daily basis care staff faces major ethical dilemmas. Without satisfactory result‚ ethical dilemmas can be defined as problem (Bainbridge & Ricketts‚ 2003). Ethics are always positive. It is care worker’s responsibility to provide respect
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SHC 34 Principles of implementing duty of care in health‚ social care or in young peoples settings Task 2 (i) Potential conflicts or dilemmas that may arise between the duty of care and an individuals rights In situations where there is a conflict of interest or a dilemma between an individual’s rights and your duty of care‚ it is best practice to make sure the individual is aware of the consequences of their choice that they have the mental capacity to understand the risks involved
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Understand how duty of care contributes to safe practice. Explain what it means to have a duty of care in own work role. As a care assistant‚ I have a Duty of Care that is a legal requirement/obligation‚ requiring that I adhere to a good quality & standard of care when providing care & support to my service users. Every individual should be supported & enabled to live in an environment which is free from prejudice & safe from abuse. My responsibility under the duty of care is to do
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Negligence: The duty of care Introduction The tort of negligence has a role in providing compensation for those who have suffered through the actions of another. A negligent act can be summarised as failing to do something that should be done or doing something that should be carried out in another manner or not at all. When determining if an act is negligent‚ a number of basic principles are called upon in order to establish whether a duty of care is owed and if so‚ by whom. Reasonable Man In
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