Know how to address conflicts or dilemmas that may arise between an individual's rights and the duty of care
What possible situations involving a duty of care conflict or dilemma might you encounter at your setting?
Table of Contents
- Tutorial Video
- Reading Materials
- Laser Learning reading text ‘Assessing risk’
- 'Unison duty of care handbook: For members working in health and social care’.
- ‘Managing risk positively: A guide for staff in health and social care’ by the Isle of Wight Council Community Services and Isle of Wight NHS Primary Care Trust
- ‘Duty of care in health and social care: Responsibilities and examples' on the HUB website
- ‘The duty of care of healthcare professionals’ by Public World
- Presentation
- Good Practice Example
- Interactive Quiz
- Evidence Opportunities
- Extended Learning
- Read this chapter of ‘Dementia: ethical issues’ that relates to dilemmas in the care of individuals with dementia – the conflicts can apply to the duty of care in a number of situations.
- Use the internet to research examples of incidents where health and social care settings have been accused of a breach of duty of care
- What possible situations involving a duty of care conflict or dilemma might you encounter at your setting?
- Click on the link to read this article from the Community Care website on ‘Self-neglect: the tension between human rights and duty of care’. Read this article and consider the dilemmas involved.
- Click to read ‘Ethical dilemmas faced by carers and people with dementia’ by Alzheimer Europe.
- Click to read ‘Chapter 6 Dilemmas in care’ from the book ‘Dementia: ethical issues’ by Nuffield Bioethics.
- Think And Challenge
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