Health_and_Social

Anti-discriminatory practice is designed to tackle anti-discrimination and is important as everyone should be treated equally. Anti-discriminatory practice is promoted through the actions of individuals and organisations following the law, aiming for best practice, providing care that is person-centred and ethically based, and challenging others where there are ruptures in practice. Ethical Principles Putting the Service User at the Heart of Service Provision Supporting Individuals to Express their Needs and Preferences Empowering Individuals Promoting Individual Rights, Choices and Well-being Balancing Rights with the Rights of Others Dealing with Conflicts Identifying and Challenging Discrimination Ethical Principles Ethical principles are basically knowing right from wrong. There are 4 key principles which are Justice, Autonomy, Beneficence and non-maleficence. These 4 key principles promote anti-discriminatory practice as: Justice is treating people fairly despite there their background and where they are from. For example, if there was a woman who lived in a care home and she was of a different background to the others who live there, this shouldn’t affect her quality of care or her choices as everyone should be treated fairly. Autonomy is respecting people’s choices. For example, if one morning a man in care home decided that he isn’t keen on having corn flakes this particular morning for his breakfast and he wants toast instead, then the carers should respect this choice. Beneficence is behaving in a way in which would benefit the service users by taking into consideration cost and the risk. For example, if a service user needed an operation then the doctors and carers would take into account the cost of the operation and also the risk of it for example, life threatening. Non-maleficence is the harm caused by treatment that shouldn’t be more important than the benefits of the treatment. Both the benefits and the harm of the treatment should both be as important as each other. For example, if someone in a care home needed to take medication for a particular disease or illness in which they were suffering from, carer needs to take into account the harm caused if the person takes the medication for example, some medications cause people to feel suicidal. The carer should also take into account the benefits from taking the medication for example; it could have the person well again and back to their usual self. HOW DO THEY PROMOTE ANTI-DISCRIMINATORY PRACTICE' Ethical principles promote anti-discriminatory practice as they say that everyone should be treated with the same respect and that everyone should be looked at individually and not grouped up by labels. For example, if someone was in a wheelchair and couldn’t write, this doesn’t mean that everyone who is in a wheelchair cannot write. So therefore by the ethical principles promoting what they do, this is also promoting anti-discriminatory practice. . WHAT PROBLEMS ARISE WHEN TRYING TO PROMOTE ANTI-DISCRIMINATORY PRACTICE' There are problems that can arise when trying to promote anti-discriminatory practice. For example, when attempting justice, someone could get offended by what someone had said for example, if they are from another country and someone makes a negative comment on said country then this would be injustice and could lead to conflict. If a carer isn’t respecting a service user’s choices then this is negative autonomy and could cause conflict sue to the carer not letting freedom of choice take place within the health care setting. When talking about beneficence, if the cost and the risk of something aren’t taken into account, consequences will be had. For example, if said resident needed an operation and the carers and doctors didn’t take into account the risk and cost of the procedure then this could cause problems such as if the resident dies in surgery as the doctor didn’t way up the risk and it was an expensive operation, the care home or family of the service user would be out of pocket and have lost a member of their residential home and for the family, a close relative. When talking about non-maleficence, if a service user needed medication for an illness in /which they were suffering from, and the carer lent more towards the benefit of the medication rather than looking at both the harm and the benefits of said medication and the service user started feeling suicidal due to the side effects of said medication then there would be more of a problem than there was before.