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with verified detailed solutions ||//\\|| ||//\\|| ||//\\||
Explain how can a health/social care professional empower a service user (6 marks) - correct
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answer✔✔- By putting the individual at the heart of service provision ||//\\|| ||//\\|| ||//\\|| ||//\\|| ||//\\|| ||//\\|| ||//\\|| ||//\\|| ||//\\|| ||//\\||
- By promoting individualised care
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- Promoting and supporting individual rights to dignity and independence
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- Supporting beliefs, culture and preferences of the service user
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- By acting as an advocate for their service users so their views are heard.
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- Promoting the service user to make best choices for their wellbeing.
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- involve the service user in planning care
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- provide care that meets the service users' needs and preferences
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Discuss how can a health/ social care professional ensure their own personal safety when
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working with a service user at their home (8 marks) - correct answer✔✔- Risk assessments
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to ensure safe working practices.
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- Infection control measures such as hand-washing
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facilities, use of Personal Protection ||//\\|| ||//\\|| ||//\\|| ||//\\||
Equipment.
- Reporting/recording accidents, incidents
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and concerns. ||//\\||
- Provision of first-aid facilities.
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- Regular continuous professional development.
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- Ensuring their whereabouts are known by their employer.
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- Following appropriate policies and procedures e.g. lone workers policy.
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- Implementation may be limited due to lack of resources.
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, - Lack of time may make it difficult to ensure best practice.
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Describe how 2 polices protect vulnerable individuals within the residential care settings (4
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marks) - correct answer✔✔- Complaints policy (1) which allows all individuals to raise issues
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to senior staff (1). ||//\\|| ||//\\|| ||//\\||
- Risk assessment policy (1) identifies actions needed to reduce risks for service
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users with particular needs (1). ||//\\|| ||//\\|| ||//\\|| ||//\\||
- Data protection and confidentiality policy
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(1) only staff who need to know are privy to personal information about the service users
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(1).
- Whistleblowing policy (1) to encourage employees and others who have concerns
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about safeguarding issues to raise them without fear of repercussions (1).
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Explain how can health/social care professionals prevent discrimination towards service users
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(6 marks) - correct answer✔✔Promoting anti-discriminatory practice:
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- Requiring staff to challenge inappropriate
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behaviour.
- Adapting the way health and social care services are provided.
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- Preventing direct discrimination by
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reflective practice. ||//\\||
Preventing indirect discrimination: ||//\\|| ||//\\||
- Ensuring policies and procedures are reviewed
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regularly to ensure all individuals have equal ||//\\|| ||//\\|| ||//\\|| ||//\\|| ||//\\|| ||//\\||
access to the service. ||//\\|| ||//\\|| ||//\\||
- Policies and procedures understood and implemented.
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- Updated staff training and CPD.
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- Reference to resources and methods of promoting
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with verified detailed solutions ||//\\|| ||//\\|| ||//\\||
Explain how can a health/social care professional empower a service user (6 marks) - correct
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answer✔✔- By putting the individual at the heart of service provision ||//\\|| ||//\\|| ||//\\|| ||//\\|| ||//\\|| ||//\\|| ||//\\|| ||//\\|| ||//\\|| ||//\\||
- By promoting individualised care
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- Promoting and supporting individual rights to dignity and independence
||//\\|| ||//\\|| ||//\\|| ||//\\|| ||//\\|| ||//\\|| ||//\\|| ||//\\|| ||//\\||
- Supporting beliefs, culture and preferences of the service user
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- By acting as an advocate for their service users so their views are heard.
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- Promoting the service user to make best choices for their wellbeing.
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- involve the service user in planning care
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- provide care that meets the service users' needs and preferences
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Discuss how can a health/ social care professional ensure their own personal safety when
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working with a service user at their home (8 marks) - correct answer✔✔- Risk assessments
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to ensure safe working practices.
||//\\|| ||//\\|| ||//\\|| ||//\\||
- Infection control measures such as hand-washing
||//\\|| ||//\\|| ||//\\|| ||//\\|| ||//\\|| ||//\\||
facilities, use of Personal Protection ||//\\|| ||//\\|| ||//\\|| ||//\\||
Equipment.
- Reporting/recording accidents, incidents
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and concerns. ||//\\||
- Provision of first-aid facilities.
||//\\|| ||//\\|| ||//\\|| ||//\\||
- Regular continuous professional development.
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- Ensuring their whereabouts are known by their employer.
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- Following appropriate policies and procedures e.g. lone workers policy.
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- Implementation may be limited due to lack of resources.
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, - Lack of time may make it difficult to ensure best practice.
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Describe how 2 polices protect vulnerable individuals within the residential care settings (4
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marks) - correct answer✔✔- Complaints policy (1) which allows all individuals to raise issues
||//\\|| ||//\\|| ||//\\|| ||//\\|| ||//\\|| ||//\\|| ||//\\|| ||//\\|| ||//\\|| ||//\\|| ||//\\|| ||//\\|| ||//\\|| ||//\\||
to senior staff (1). ||//\\|| ||//\\|| ||//\\||
- Risk assessment policy (1) identifies actions needed to reduce risks for service
||//\\|| ||//\\|| ||//\\|| ||//\\|| ||//\\|| ||//\\|| ||//\\|| ||//\\|| ||//\\|| ||//\\|| ||//\\|| ||//\\||
users with particular needs (1). ||//\\|| ||//\\|| ||//\\|| ||//\\||
- Data protection and confidentiality policy
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(1) only staff who need to know are privy to personal information about the service users
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(1).
- Whistleblowing policy (1) to encourage employees and others who have concerns
||//\\|| ||//\\|| ||//\\|| ||//\\|| ||//\\|| ||//\\|| ||//\\|| ||//\\|| ||//\\|| ||//\\|| ||//\\||
about safeguarding issues to raise them without fear of repercussions (1).
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Explain how can health/social care professionals prevent discrimination towards service users
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(6 marks) - correct answer✔✔Promoting anti-discriminatory practice:
||//\\|| ||//\\|| ||//\\|| ||//\\|| ||//\\|| ||//\\|| ||//\\||
- Requiring staff to challenge inappropriate
||//\\|| ||//\\|| ||//\\|| ||//\\|| ||//\\||
behaviour.
- Adapting the way health and social care services are provided.
||//\\|| ||//\\|| ||//\\|| ||//\\|| ||//\\|| ||//\\|| ||//\\|| ||//\\|| ||//\\|| ||//\\||
- Preventing direct discrimination by
||//\\|| ||//\\|| ||//\\|| ||//\\||
reflective practice. ||//\\||
Preventing indirect discrimination: ||//\\|| ||//\\||
- Ensuring policies and procedures are reviewed
||//\\|| ||//\\|| ||//\\|| ||//\\|| ||//\\|| ||//\\||
regularly to ensure all individuals have equal ||//\\|| ||//\\|| ||//\\|| ||//\\|| ||//\\|| ||//\\||
access to the service. ||//\\|| ||//\\|| ||//\\||
- Policies and procedures understood and implemented.
||//\\|| ||//\\|| ||//\\|| ||//\\|| ||//\\|| ||//\\||
- Updated staff training and CPD.
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- Reference to resources and methods of promoting
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