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Consent In Health And Social Care Essay

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As I have discussed above regarding legislation and policies promoting person centred practice in health and social care setting. One of the most crucial elements of all these legal requirements is to establish consent with individual in terms of making decisions. There are many ways of informing consent with person centred practice for health professionals under different circumstances. First of all, the involvement is the essential part of person centred practice. By involving individual with decision making process is the first consent individual has given. Namely if the resident agreed to discuss the issue/decision, they automatically give the consent for inviting health professionals. It is just like the title of white paper ‘nothing about me, without me’. This type of consent normally is in a form of verbally. For example when we want to discuss the issue of putting DNAR (Do Not Attempt Resuscitation) form in to place, using person centred practice would be asking resident if they would like to have a chat about the issue, which leaves right/choice to the resident to say yes or no. Obviously the resident need to have enough information and time to make the …show more content…

This is also when person centred practice comes to place. Because different people will have different form or degrees of communication difficulty. Some people may have hearing difficulty, some people may have eye sight problem which hinder to communicate and some people may not even understand the language. I have discussed the issue in terms of how to identify the barriers and how to overcome them in the unit 501. Therefore, one size fits all cannot solve the problem and health professionals must using person centred practice by identifying any communication barrier individually and treat people differently depending on their needs in order to gain valid consent from

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