The Health And Social Care

Person centred values are treating people as individuals, supporting their choices, treating them with dignity and respect, working in partnership with people rather than trying to control them.

staff to understand the individual and their life experiences. When working in a person centred manner both individuals and care staff benefit from a positive relationship and can work together towards their goals and ensuring individuals are receiving care which fully reflects their needs.

Taking into account person centred values makes me work better for the individual person, rather than imposing my own choices on them and taking away their own right to independence and choice.

1.1 Explain how and why person centred values must influence all aspects of health and social care work.

It is important to get to know the individual to ensure the individuals needs are met and to put together a person centred plan. It is important to involve the individual when writing care plans and development plans to enable them to establish their needs and enables the individual to express their wishes and preferences and to make them aware that they have choices.

Instead offering people a choice of what is currently available and finding what best fits their needs, person-centred working looks at someone’s needs and built the support package around them. One of the important aspects of person-centred planning is to look at what people are able to do for themselves and to ensure that services are not taking over aspects of a person’s life that they could perfectly well manage without support.

Person-centred care has its focus on the person with an illness and not on the disease in the person. To

There is no doubt that person-centred care values must influence all aspects of health and social care work. Health and social care should be based on person-centred values, and should be individualised as this is a law requirement (Human Rights Act 1998, Health and Social care Act 2012, Codes of practice for Social Care Workers, etc). If person-centre values that underpin all work in the health and social care sector are followed as they should be then all individuals should feel that and health and social workers ensure that:

Values relate to our personal principles, morals, and ideals—that is, what we consider to be important.Each person is unique, with their own personal values and beliefs shaped by a number of factors that include culture, religion, and personal experiences.We value each person as an individual, respect their aspirations and commitments in life, and seek to understand their priorities, needs, abilities and limits.

Patient-centered care can be defined as “providing care that is respectful of and representative to individual patient preferences, needs, and values and ensuring that patient values guide all patient clinical decisions.” ( Kupfer & Bond, 2012) Healthcare workers also strive to ensure that their patients have the correct and thorough education to make decisions that involve their care. It is very important for the patient to understand the risks, benefits, and all possible outcomes of different care they may receive. This is only a small part of the large concept that is patient-centered care. All healthcare fields strive to provide the patient with care that is going to be centered around them, providing them with their needs, wants, and various services to allow them to regain their health to the fullest extent possible with the highest patient satisfaction rate plausible.

The Institute on Medicine (2012) defines patient-centred care as respectful and responsive to individual patients’ preferences, needs, and values and ensures that the patient or family are in control of all clinical decisions and maintaining core values. This again highlights the focus on the patient, their values, and involvement of the family.

The concepts of dignity, diversity, and ethics are interspersed within health care because it is a field that revolves around the care of humans. On the other hand, it is also a field in which humans collaboratively take care of humans; and with that comes human error, bias, and imperfection. For example, the provision of “excellent” care to patients is the expected outcome; however, the definition of this “excellence” can be interpreted differently based on individual or institutional beliefs. Therefore, the key in the delivery of excellent patient care is the ability for each individual to self-reflect and learn through each and every experience what it truly takes to preserve the “self-worth” and needs of every human being.

Person. The concept of person includes individuals, families, groups, and communities.  Persons are of intrinsic value and dignity and worthy of respect because of their shared and unique physical, emotional, intellectual, social, cultural, and spiritual characteristics (College of Nursing, 2013). My personal philosophy is that nursing is patient-centered, so we don’t just focus on their illness or health problem, our care involves the whole client and all facets of their life.

The Humanising Framework by Galvin and Todres, (2013), sets out a theoretical framework that encompasses eight elements expressing a spectrum of possibilities. Each of these elements focus on human values, overlapping with each other to provide awareness when considering the complexity of lived situations. Furthermore, they are considered to affect interactions with patients and their families/carers, in how humanising or dehumanising those interactions can be. Heuristically, each element shows the positivity

People have the ability to provide respect and personally caring while enabling the patient to regain their wholeness