Professional, Ethical and Legal Issues in Social and Health Care

Professional, Ethical and Legal Issues in Social and Health Care
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Professional, Legal and Ethical Issues in Health and Social Care
For all health students or professionals of the professions, it is a mandatory to develop a meticulous understanding of new skills, knowledge and the professional values. These skills contribute to the overall all-round development of an individual, and helps in the evolution from a learner to a fully-fledged skilled professional in the respective field. A wide range of understanding of the legal, professional and ethical issues is essential in helping members to maintain their professional standards, negotiate dilemmas in daily practices and make effective responses to any case of unprofessional practice (Wood, 2010). The experience in health services could come along as in some cases as relative, patient, or as a practitioner in the field. In all these cases there is a likelihood that at some time that one may feel uncertain about the right responses in various situations.
For the sake of the safety of the relevant players, be it the healthcare workers or the society itself, it is important to follow evidence based nursing to avert any unforeseen challenges. The concept of EBP in real sense, has indeed undergone a lot of evolution over the years. The essence or aim of EBP is to explore further knowledge or underlying information that might have been gathered from various quarters, to essentially ensure that all the useful information is blended and therefore, useful in an all-round manner.
Within care settings, practitioners always face situations, and they have to make difficult decisions concerning the health of their clients. Such situations often tend to play a crucial role in the determination or separation of critical problem-solving abilities and real disaster. They often underline the fine line between success and failure, life and death, due to the realization of just how much split-second decisions matter. This is especially the case when pressure is involved. The decisions include giving, withdrawing treatment services, or even just sharing of risk information (Gunn and Taylor, 2014). However, the practitioner is expected to rationalize any of the decision they make. Balancing the three strands could prove a difficult task, but provide with accessible discussion and comprehensive scenarios, it becomes simpler to deal with the complexities of the practice.
For a long time, it has been quite a challenge and an uphill task to produce a quality British research done about old age life quality with the trend of rising ethnicity diversity of the older population(Borreani, Wright, Scambler & Gallagher,2008). It is attributed to the prevalent racism, but it is important to research on the effects of racism, discrimination and other practices too (Moriarty and Butt, 2004). This paper discusses the quality inequalities in life among the aging population from distinct ethnic populations using various sources of data from surveys.
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The world over, is shaped and determined by ethnicity. Demographics are as crucial in the existence of mankind as much as in the decision making capabiliti...