Equality Diversity and Rights
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D2 JUSTIFY WAYS OF OVERCOMING DIFFICULTIES THAT MAY ARISE WHEN IMPLEMENTING ANTI-DISCRIMINATORY PRACTICES IN HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE SETTINGS
Balancing individual rights with the rights of others can present health and social care workers with some difficult dilemmas, tensions and potential and actual conflicts. For instance a service user in a care home has the right to watch TV or listen to the radio while the patient in the next bed has the right to an undisturbed sleep the rights of these two patients clash. By providing alternatives for example in this situation earphones could help resolve this and both individual needs are met.
Challenging discrimination shows that, people are not discriminating against those whose behaviour, views and attitudes are discriminatory. Challenging discrimination can be overcome by challenging the attitude, view or behaviour, of the individuals as well as training and encouragement training should be of a good standard and staff encouraged and praised in order to promote good team morale which would also promote better practice and reduce discrimination. More to that it is important for care workers to be respectful and assertive when challenging someone as well as being open-minded and not make assumptions. Staff should attend regular staff training sessions and have team meetings between them and the management and also help to challenge discriminatory practices by being aware of the individual needs as well as those of service users. This can be done by promoting autonomy of care, being flexible, keeping service users informed and by putting the service user at the centre of focus.
Lack of funding and resources can also affect the implementation of anti- discriminatory practices in such a way that if there are no funds to provide choices this can create a limit of choice to the service. There fore a relationship with the staff including management and clients must be built on mutual trust and understanding when difficult...
Balancing individual rights with the rights of others can present health and social care workers with some difficult dilemmas, tensions and potential and actual conflicts. For instance a service user in a care home has the right to watch TV or listen to the radio while the patient in the next bed has the right to an undisturbed sleep the rights of these two patients clash. By providing alternatives for example in this situation earphones could help resolve this and both individual needs are met.
Challenging discrimination shows that, people are not discriminating against those whose behaviour, views and attitudes are discriminatory. Challenging discrimination can be overcome by challenging the attitude, view or behaviour, of the individuals as well as training and encouragement training should be of a good standard and staff encouraged and praised in order to promote good team morale which would also promote better practice and reduce discrimination. More to that it is important for care workers to be respectful and assertive when challenging someone as well as being open-minded and not make assumptions. Staff should attend regular staff training sessions and have team meetings between them and the management and also help to challenge discriminatory practices by being aware of the individual needs as well as those of service users. This can be done by promoting autonomy of care, being flexible, keeping service users informed and by putting the service user at the centre of focus.
Lack of funding and resources can also affect the implementation of anti- discriminatory practices in such a way that if there are no funds to provide choices this can create a limit of choice to the service. There fore a relationship with the staff including management and clients must be built on mutual trust and understanding when difficult...