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How might your own personal experiences attitudes and beliefs affect your role?
They affect how you think, what you do and how you do it. Your background, upbringing, experiences and relationships will all have played a part in the way you see things. Sometimes your attitudes and beliefs could lead you to assume things about people that are not right or fair. Your own beliefs, values and life experiences can affect your attitude and behaviour towards individuals and carers and its human nature to react to the way that people behave towards us. For example, if someone smiles at us, we usually smile back but if someone is rude to us, we can become cross or angry. Values influence your behavior because you use them to decide between alternatives. Values, attitudes, behaviors and beliefs are cornerstones of who we are and how we do things. They form the basis of how we see ourselves as individuals, how we see others, and how we interpret the world in general. 2. When we make decisions and take actions that honor our values, we are best able to maximize our feelings of satisfaction and fulfillment. When we make decisions that do not honor or might conflict with our values, this can cause discontent and dissatisfaction. Values are stable long-lasting beliefs about what is important to a person. They become standards by which people order their lives and make their choices. A belief will develop into a value when the person’s commitment to it grows and they see it as being important. Examples of personal values include donating to charity or spending time with family. Everyone has values, but each person has a different value set. These differences are affected by an individual’s culture, personal upbringing, life experiences, and a range of other influences.
How your own personal beliefs values and life experiences could affect your behaviour towards individuals?
Our values and beliefs influence the way we connect with people, how we empathise with them, and interact with them. Sometimes people may seem more harsh or direct than you feel is necessary, but this may be because they have had the type of life experiences that did not give them second chances. Usually, values guide behavior. They are highly relevant to establishing our individuality and helping explain our actions. For example, a person who values health is more likely to develop daily rituals and long-term habits that enhance health and general well-being than people who do not. When you understand your values, you can make decisions confidently knowing that you have your own back. You’ve spent time thinking about your values, and now you can let them help you along the way. Once you understand what your values are, you can use them to help set goals and make plans. The Importance of Workplace Values Your workplace values are the guiding principles that are most important to you about the way that you work. You use these deeply held principles to choose between right and wrong ways of working, and they guide important decisions and career choices.
How own beliefs values and life experiences can affect attitude and behaviour towards individuals and carers?
Your own beliefs, values and life experiences can affect your attitude and behaviour towards individuals and carers and its human nature to react to the way that people behave towards us. For example, if someone smiles at us, we usually smile back but if someone is rude to us, we can become cross or angry. Beliefs are our assumptions about the world. Values are how we attribute worth to objects and behaviors. Beliefs stem from our life experiences, spiritual learnings, and culture. Our beliefs heavily influence our values. Some examples of good, healthy values: honesty, building something new, vulnerability, standing up for oneself, standing up for others, self-respect, curiosity, charity, humility, creativity. Patients come first in everything we do. respect and dignity. We value every person – whether patient, their families or carers, or staff – as an individual, respect their aspirations and commitments in life, and seek to understand their priorities, needs, abilities and limits. commitment to quality of care. One of the most important values of nursing is to respect the dignity of their patients. This means treating patients with kindness and thoughtfulness as you provide care, and remembering to consider their emotions about the situation as you talk with them, care for them and educate them about their health. Morals and nursing practice The way you deal with problems that arise will be based on the values that you have and the moral standpoint you take. Many of the problems you face have to do with things like honesty, doing good, having a choice, valuing someone’s worth and being fair about something.
How personal experiences values and beliefs impact on practice?
They affect how you think, what you do and how you do it. Your background, upbringing, experiences and relationships will all have played a part in the way you see things. Sometimes your attitudes and beliefs could lead you to assume things about people that are not right or fair. Your values form the foundation of your life. They dictate the choices you make and determine the direction that your life takes. Your values will influence your decisions related to your relationships, career, and other activities you engage in. Yet despite this importance, few people choose their values. Our values inform our thoughts, words, and actions. Our values are important because they help us to grow and develop. They help us to create the future we want to experience. Every individual and every organization is involved in making hundreds of decisions every day. It affects perceptions of health, illness and death, beliefs about causes of disease, approaches to health promotion, how illness and pain are experienced and expressed, where patients seek help, and the types of treatment patients prefer.
How your own values beliefs and behaviours can affect your professional practice?
Where your values are aligned with your work or business you will find that they support and energise your work e.g. If you have a value of trust and you feel trusted by everyone you deal with at work and you trust them. It may be that some of your values are aligned, whereas others are not. Organisational values are a set of core beliefs held by an organisation. They act as guiding principles that provide an organisation with purpose and direction and set the tone for its interactions with its customers, employees and other stakeholders. These fundamental values include Compassion, Respect for Persons, Commitment to Integrity and Ethical Practice, Commitment to Excellence, and Justice in Healthcare. They embody the human dimensions of healthcare and are fundamental to the practice of compassionate, ethical and safe relationship-centered care. Ensuring that you maintain clients dignity, rights and freedom at all times and treat them with respect. Having the ability to differentiate between good and poor practice. Being honest, trustworthy, compassionate and reliable. Accepting and celebrating difference.