Unit 7- Implement Person-Centred Approaches in Health and Social Care

Unit 7- Implement Person-Centred Approaches in Health and Social Care
1.1 define person-centred values
Encouraging person-centred values means carrying out your role in a way that respects the people (staff and patients) you work with so that they can live the life that they choose to. This should not be any different from what you would want or expect should you need care and support. When you go about your day-to-day work you must always be aware of the individual person that you are providing the service for. So in a surgery you must be aware that when doing leg dressings you have to do the leg dressings and a diabetic foot check instead.
1.2 explain why it is important to work in a way that embeds person-centred values
By inserting person-centred values into practice we guarantee that we support one person and that they are the key focus at one time, that all the services are revolve around the patient and not the patient revolve around the services, that we give them dignity and respect, that the patient has all of the information to make the right choice they feel for themselves, that all arrangements are made and meted, the patients’ rights are promoted.   It is important to work in a way that embeds person-centred values so that they are always looked after correctly and so that we do not need to look after everything else.

1.3 explain why risk-taking can be part of a person centred approach
Risk-taking can be part of a person centred approach, because we are take risks to learn more about ourselves and the limitations that we can do. Taking risks is all about living, it helps us learn from our mistakes and what the consequences are from our actions, if that is drinking loads the night before an interview and waking up with a bad headache or sleeping all the way through the alarms so that you late for the interview, these are positive risks as you would know not to do them again. It can be part of the individual’s choice as long as they do not...