Learning Outcome 2 - Care Values, Early Years Care Values Flashcards
What is equality and diversity?
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Equality - respecting differences by providing equal opportunities. This means putting things in place to support people to achieve similar outcomes. E.g menu/ramps.
Diversity - understanding that each individual is unique, and recognising our individual differences. E.g different levelled papers.
What is equality?
Respecting differences by providing equal opportunities.
This means putting things in place to support people to achieve similar outcomes.
What is diversity?
Understanding that each individual is unique, and recognising our individual differences.
An important way to promote equality is to provide care that _______ an individuals specific ________. For example…
Meets, need.
For example, if a theatre trip is arranged for residents of a care home, it should be to somewhere that has wheelchair access and a hearing loop system for those who need them.
Promoting equality and diversity
What is non discriminatory language?
Non offensive, homophobic or racist.
Promoting equality and diversity
How can we challenge discrimination?
Challenge at time, challenge through procedure afterwards (complaints procedure, warning), challenge through long term complaint (raising awareness to staff).
Promoting equality and diversity
How can we make adaptions in a setting?
Physically disabled (have ramps, lifts and all their classrooms downstairs), mental health (timeout card, base, extra support lessons), hearing impaired (loops).
What is discrimination?
Acting on prejudice to treat someone unfairly.
Why do we need to promote equality and diversity?
Improves the quality of care
Maintains or improves quality of life
Ensures standardisation
Provides clear guidelines to inform and improve practice
How can care workers promote equality and diversity?
Care workers should always use non discriminatory language and avoid patronising the individuals they are caring for. They should challenge discrimination if they see or hear it happening; whether it’s a staff member or another individual using the care setting.
Social care setting examples
Social services Retirement home Youth club Care home Day care Residential care home
Health care setting examples
Pharmacy GP Dentist Hospital Opticians Nursing home
Early years and educational setting examples
Parent/toddler group
Baby sensory
Nursery/primary
Play group
Values of care applied in health and social care settings:
Promoting equality and diversity
Maintaining confidentiality
Promoting rights and beliefs
The importance of applying the values of care
Applying v______ of care ensures, practitioners will know how to do their job e_________; service users will receive appropriate care, attention and treatment to meet their individual needs; all of the staff in a care setting will be working to the same h____ standards.
Values
Effectively
High
The importance of applying the values of care
Applying values of care i_______ the quality of care: people who use services will have their individual needs met,
e.g, providing hospital p_______ with appropriate nutritional meals, providing help to eat and drink, discussing their t__________ with them and consulting them about alternative types of treatment potentially available to them.
Improves
Patients
Treatments
The importance of applying the values of care
Applying values of care provides clear g_________ to inform and improve practice so that they know how to provide effective care; applying the values of care in their work ensures that the s________ of the care provided by practitioners meets l______ requirements.
Guidelines
Standard
Legal
The importance of applying the values of care
Applying values of care maintains or improves quality of l____: service users rights, beliefs and p_______ will be respected and their individual needs met, this ensures that the care they receive is b_________ in every way,
e.g a teaching assistant providing help for literacy, so that a child can receive their full potential.
Life
Preference
Beneficial
Why do we need to promote equality?
Improves quality of _____
This means not using _________ language will improve quality of _____
Care
Discriminatory
Care
Why do we need to promote equality?
Maintains or improves quality of ____
This means that if someone had d________ needs, it would be met
Life
Dietary
Why do we need to promote equality?
Ensures s__________ of care
This means that it’s the s_____ value of care EVERYWHERE you go
Standardisation
Same
Why do we need to promote equality?
Provides clear g___________ to inform and improve practice
Ensure all staff follow all r____ and g_________ to improve service users care
Guidelines
Rules
Guidelines
Reasons why care values might not be promoted?
Lack of training Overworked/understaffed Lack of understanding Personal differences Lack of funding Staff having prejudice
What are the effects of not promoting equality and diversity?
Physical - broken bones, bruising, cuts and grazes, injury, malnourished, self-harm.
Emotional - developer behaviour problems, humiliated, frustrated, depressed, disempowered.
Intellectual - lack of knowledge, lack of skills development, will not achieve potential, loss of concentration.
Social - unco-operative, become antisocial, isolated, excluded, lack of friends.
