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How your own personal views would restrict the individual’s ability to actively participate?
How your own Personal Views can Restrict the Individual’s Ability to Actively Participate in their Care. When working in health or social care you need to be positive, open minded and show respect for other people’s attitudes and beliefs, especially when they differ from your own.
How to support an individual to make informed choices without influence?
There are a number of ways that you could help the individual to make informed choices. You can explain information, find people who can share their experiences or ask for the help of specialist workers. It might also support them to involve other people they trust, like friends or relatives.
What is an example of an informed choice in health and social care?
For example; If you were to help support someone to make and communicate an informed decision on whether they wish to have a cup of tea, coffee or a glass of juice. You could support them to make a decision by: Showing the person all of the options and enable them to point to the one they wish to choose.
How do you help someone make an informed decision?
Giving the person relevant information to make the decision. Keep the information only to what is needed. Describe any foreseeable risks and benefits in practical terms. If there are options, give the information about the choices in a clear and balanced way.
Why it is important not to disclose anything about the individual?
To disclose anything about someone’s health or medication to a third party without he person’s permission is a serious breach of trust and an abuse on the part of the person who discloses it.
When can an individual’s privacy and dignity be compromised?
Situations compromising privacy: Not providing space when person wishes to be alone. Not providing appropriate privacy when a person is receiving personal care. Not providing appropriate privacy when a person is receiving medical treatment.
Why is it important that you support the person to make choices?
It’s about respecting an individual’s right to choose. Supportive decision-making is about respecting an individual’s right to choose. Sometimes caregivers may feel like they know what the person they support would decide and may make the decision by themselves to save time and effort.
Why should people be able to make their own decisions?
Each person has the right to make decisions and have choices about how they live their life. Each person has different ideas about what is important and what makes them feel best. Making your own choices about the things you do is very important because it gives your life meaning.
Why is it important to promote choice when supporting an individual?
Supporting an individual by involving them in choices promotes independence, empowering them to feel in control of their situation and helps develop self-confidence and self-esteem.
What are the principles of informed choice?
Informed choice is what we call the process of choosing from options based on accurate information, knowledge, and experiences. Core principles include: Everyone is capable of making choices, regardless of their limitations, and needs opportunity, experience, and support to do so.
What kind of decisions can you make on behalf of the person you support?
The Mental Capacity Act (MCA) says that any decision made on behalf of a person who lacks mental capacity must be made in their best interests. How someone decides what’s in your best interests will depend on you and the situation you’re in.
Why is it important that you support the person to make choices and prevent them from taking harmful risks?
Individuals should be given the support they need to take the risks they want and to make informed choices. This supports their development and promotes a sense of achievement and self-esteem.
What are the 7 steps in the decision-making process?
- Step 1: Identify the decision. You realize that you need to make a decision. …
- Step 2: Gather relevant information. …
- Step 3: Identify the alternatives. …
- Step 4: Weigh the evidence. …
- Step 5: Choose among alternatives. …
- Step 6: Take action. …
- Step 7: Review your decision & its consequences.
What are 5 keys to making a well informed decision?
- Step 1: Identify Your Goal. One of the most effective decision making strategies is to keep an eye on your goal. …
- Step 2: Gather Information for Weighing Your Options. …
- Step 3: Consider the Consequences. …
- Step 4: Make Your Decision. …
- Step 5: Evaluate Your Decision.
What are the four steps of informed decision-making?
- Acquire, organize and disseminate appropriate and accurate information. …
- Create a customized decision-support team. …
- Establish a threat-and-opportunity early warning system. …
- Adopt a rapid decision-making process.
What are the possible barriers to active participation?
- Health of the individual.
- Lack of interest by the individual.
- Inadequate resources.
- Individual’s family.
- Physical barrier.
- Ineffective staff training.
- Informational barrier.
How should you ensure that an individual feels like they can actively participate in and can make choices and decisions about their care?
Inform individuals and provide information they can understand about their right to be involved in and make choices about their care. Engage with individuals to learn how involved they are in their care and how they feel they could become more involved.
How can barriers to active participation be reduced?
- Explain your interest in physical activity to friends and family. Ask them to support your efforts.
- Invite friends and family members to exercise with you. Plan social activities involving exercise.
- Develop new friendships with physically active people.
How can a person actively participate in their care?
Fully involved in assessing their own needs and drawing up their support plans, one page profiles etc. Fully in control of decisions about the risks they wish to take and in deciding on how these are to be assessed and managed.