Equality, Diversity and Rights in Health and Social Care Legislation: Legislation is the act of making a set of laws or single law. Organisational policies: An organisational policy is a statement which explains the intended standards and information of what the aim is, within a document. These statements are carried out in organisations and sets out the expectations of the organisation. Codes of practice: The codes of practice are the lists of rules which are set for workers to work by in practice
Focussing on characteristics of inter-professional practice within the care sector this essay will discuss the importance of communication within professional practice and will attempt to define what it means to be a professional within the context of caring for others with reference to collaborative care. The following section offers a discussion which will outline the principles of ethical and anti-oppressive practice. A reflective account and assessment of my communication skills using the Inter-professional
The ability to communicate effectively is essential when referring to the health and social care sector. Communication implies much more than transferring and receiving information. It represents a vital part in developing and maintaining relationships and everyone uses it as a method to express feelings and emotions. The essay presents the factors that influence effective communication and methods to improve it. I will focus on the skills required for achieving it by explaining the importance of
In this essay I will be discussing the social factors that influence health care and describe how effective the NHS has been in reducing health inequalities in the UK. There are four models of health, World Health Organisation; health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease. Biophysical, health is the absence of disease and infirmity. Social, health is the state of optimum capacity of an individual for the effective role and tasks for which
This reflective essay on Multidisciplinary Team (MDT) Case Conference, based on problem solving scenario which aim to provide Inter-Professional (IP) team with knowledge of real clinical environment. The essay examines my individual role within the team as physiotherapist, my performance and how to improve upon my leaning needs. It will scrutinise the roles played by two IPs, the District and Diabetes nurses. It then progresses to reflectively examine the roles of health and social care professionals
disorded because of the effects of social influence which for example people can influence someone elses thinking just because of the social group that someone is in (Gibbons, 2016). This model needs to become more developmental in the sense of medial conditions and psychological factors to find the remedies for mental health and illness. As stated in the essay before the social model of disability suggests that there is a form of stigma as there is emerging social labels and this creates the stigma
SEXUAL HEALTH AMONGST INDIGINOUS AUSTRALIANS In Australia, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people experience sexual health inequalities when compared to the rest of the population. They are over-represented in notifications of sexually transmissible infections and viral hepatitis (Kirby Institute 2013) and have higher rates of teenage pregnancy (Li, Hilder and Sullivan, 2012). Sexual health according to WHO (2002) is not limited to absence of disease and dysfunction, it also refers to a state
race, gender, ethnicity, sexuality, religion, age and disability. Depending on who you are will impact the lifestyle one will live in America. For this essay I am going to focus on the disadvantage of different races in America. Those who are not particularly white have severe disadvantages if they live in America dealing with education, medical care, work, and income. Racial inequality is very evident in America even today.
During this essay I shall be outlining functionalism, Marxism and feminism as Principal sociological perspectives, I shall then apply the application of these to health and social care situations and evaluate the strengths and weaknesses. Functionalism being a structuralism theory can be explained as being a theory that examines society as formed through interdependent elements, much like the representation offered by Comte and Durkheim that each individual aspect of society is assigned to an organ
explore it, a lot of researchers have come up with different theories in learning. So in connection to that, I have examined three perspectives of learning in the scholarly articles written by Wenger (2000), Engestrom (2001) and Zimmerman (2000). This essay begins with a brief description of the three articles about learning. To start with, let me describe the work of Wenger (2000) who developed the concept of community of practice and systems of learning by which learning takes place