have a duty of care in your work role. Explain how your duty of care contributes to safeguarding individuals. Having a duty of care in my work role basically means that I have a legal obligation to behave in a way that does not cause any harm to the service users and to always act in the best interest of them and others. It also means that I must never act outside of my competence or take on any work that I don’t believe that I can carry out safely. It means that I owe a duty of care to the service
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Duty of Care Q2. “Do you feel that the nurses caring for Scott fulfilled the duty of care that was owed him? The NMC: The Code requires nurses and midwifes to treat people as individuals. They must treat them kindly with consideration and respect their dignity. They must act as an advocate for people in their care and provide them with support and information access to health and social care needs. I don’t feel that Scott was treated in this way. According to Scott he was not given
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Duty of care Safeguarding is keeping children safe from harm. Safeguarding and child protection are closely related which makes it easy to confuse and mix boundaries. Child protection refers to the amount of activities taking place when neglect or abuse is suspected or identified. Confidentiality is very important when working with children‚ it must stay within the setting and shouldn’t be talked about outside to family or friends. An example of safeguarding in placement that I have experienced would
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Principles for Implementing Duty of Care in Health‚ Social Care or Children’s and Young People’s Settings 1.1 Explain what it means to have a duty of care in own work role Duty of Care means that practitioners take on legal responsibilities to safeguard the welfare and well being of the children in their care. This includes appropriate attention‚ watching out for potential hazards‚ preventing mistakes or accidents‚ and making wise choices about steps undertaken in a role. Every child should be
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upholds the care of patients. For instance‚ when a person experiencing excruciating pain or has been afflicted with some sort of threatening symptom‚ it is the hospital staff’s duty to immediately tend to that patient’s needs in an attempt to treat the patient into a healthier state. Regardless of whether the patient
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for something to be morally right and wrong (1). Ethics can be considered a ‘moral code’ that consists of an individual’s personal standards and based on community moral standards‚ therefore can be very subjective to interpretation. Considerations also need to be given to the laws that in place by governing bodies in a particular country that need to followed. These are defined by statutes‚ regulations and legislation. Ambulance Transport Attendant’s (ATA) legal duties are to the patient‚ their employer
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Definition of Individual Autonomy Individual autonomy is basically defined as the condition or state in which actions of a person are self directed. The person who practices individual autonomy has complete authority over his or her choices and actions; specifically an autonomous person bases his decision completely on his views and ideas when the decision is of significant importance. Sense of individual autonomy can also be referred as a property of person’s desires or acts when they are considered
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Rights and Duties are an integral part of everyone’s life. It would be very difficult‚ if not impossible‚ for this world to go on if we do not assume our rights and duties. As Nelson Rockefeller said‚ I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity‚ an obligation‚ every possession‚ a duty. Everyone in this world has some duty to perform‚ ranging from the head of the country to run the county to a common man to earn bread for his household. Wole Soyinka in his play Death and
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Learner: Faith Azubuike Location: Baytress Duty of Care L2 unit205. Q1. What is the difference between a ’S’ and a ’S’? Define the duty of care? Duty of care is defined as a legal and ethical obligation which ensures a reasonable standard of care for people‚ we support and to act in a way to protect their safety. Q2. What is the difference between a ’S’ and a ’Q’? Describe how duty of care relates to duty of candour. The duty of care is a legal and ethical obligation which focuses on the safety
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Introduction Conflict usually occurs primarily as a result of a clash of interests in the relationship between parties‚ groups or states‚ either because they pursuing opposing or incompatible goals. Although the term war is sometimes used as a synonym for conflict‚ it is more usual to restrict the meaning of war to violent conflict‚ involving armed forces. But like war‚ conflict is and has been throughout history a normal way of conducting disputes between political groups within human
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