How My Own Values, Beliefs and Personal Experiences Might Affect My Work Practice

As a professional health care worker, it is part of my responsibilities to treat all service users equality and never allow my personal beliefs affect my role. This is not acceptable in the healthcare practice and would be against the standard codes of practice, and organisational policies.

Discriminatory practice in health and social care happens for many reasons including some important factors that are normally the cause of discriminatory practice for example a person may be discriminated against because on the basis of their diversity. One important discriminatory practice is because of culture. A person’s Culture is important to them and identifies who they are in the world. It is developed within the social group they are raised in, and can change when they are mature enough to decide for their selves what culture best suit them. In addition respecting a person’s culture is

As a case worker you have to consider your own thoughts, prejudices and judgements and treat everyone the same way you wish to be treated.

My responsibility as a care worker is to be aware of the various policies and legislations that will facilitate good practice when supporting my clients to access services and facilities. I am also expected to monitor and evaluate the service provided to ensure it is meeting the needs of the client.

M3: Discuss the difficulties that may arise when implementing anti-discriminatory practice in health and social care settings.

Part 3(P3): Describes the potential effects of discriminatory practice can have on staff and individuals using health and social care.

We all have our own values, how important we think something is. E.g. honesty, and how important people think

Professionals must uphold the rights and promote the interests of individuals experiencing abuse or neglect. If a service user is currently facing abuse or neglect they might find it difficult to talk to others and open up about how they feel and the issues going on in their life. They may feel that it makes them weak or they may even be afraid to talk about it as they are scared of a family member, another service user, a friend or a member of staff. All service users have different needs and are each unique in their own way. Some service users may struggle to protect their rights because they do not have the mental capacity to understand the implications of their circumstances. You should always consider how disrespectful remarks or actions will affect the service user’s self-esteem. Also you must not judge them or tell them that they are wrong. As a professional you must put your trust into the service user and believe that they are telling the truth. In addition professionals should never promise to keep a secret for a service user as this may put you and the service user at risk of harm. Therefore the service user should be informed that you will not keep a secret and make

Physicians can choose not to accept patients if their medical condition is not in the physicians’ area of expertise but a patient cannot be declined because of race, color, religion, national origin or anything else discriminatory.

Personal values and professional values run parallel in the social work field. Recognizing and managing your personal values while working with clients is an important task. Concentrating on your professional values is required for a social worker to assist her client to the best of her ability. During my internship there have been a number of cases that I have had to practice managing my personal values.

As a provider of care and support you will need to ensure that you understand the legal framework regarding equality, diversity, discrimination and rights and be able to relate this to your everyday role. Discrimination could take the form of stereotyping, making assumptions, patronising, humiliating and disrespecting people, taking some people less seriously. These are some of the things you can do to make sure

Health care providers should remain aware of the importance of personal dignity in the health care industry. This is especially true when caring for individuals with cultural differences.

care. Nursing care for any individual should not be compromised because of ethnicity, gender, spiritual values, disability, age, economic, social or health status, or any other grounds. Respect for an individual’s needs includes recognition of the individual’s place in a family and the community. For this reason, others should be included in the individual’s care. Respect for an individual’s needs, beliefs and values includes culturally sensitive care, and the need

As human beings, we all have our own values, beliefs, and attitudes. These things develop over the course of our lifetime and at any point can change based on an experience that we may have. Our family, friends, community and the experiences we have had all contribute to our sense of who we are and how we view the world.

In reviewing your personal and professional values, what surprised you, and what helped you affirm your beliefs?