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Values and Principles

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How do care workers apply care values in everyday practice?

Applying care values to practice: how care workers put dignity, choice, rights, confidentiality and anti-discriminatory practice into action in real care settings, and the consequences of failing to.
An SQA Higher Care answer on applying care values to practice: how care workers turn dignity, choice, rights, confidentiality and anti-discriminatory practice into everyday actions in care settings, person-centred care, and the consequences when values are not applied.
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What care values underpin good practice, and why do they matter?

The care values that underpin contemporary care practice, what each value means in a care setting, and why applying them protects the health, wellbeing and dignity of service users.
An SQA Higher Care answer on the care values that underpin practice: dignity, respect, choice, confidentiality, equality, anti-discrimination, safety, privacy and independence. Covers what each value means in a care setting and why applying them protects service users.
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What is confidentiality in care, and when can it be broken?

Confidentiality as a care value: what it means, why it matters, how care workers maintain it, and the circumstances in which it can lawfully and properly be broken.
An SQA Higher Care answer on confidentiality: what it means, why it matters to service users, how care workers maintain it through need-to-know sharing and secure records, and the circumstances such as risk of harm in which it can properly be broken.
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What are discrimination and anti-discriminatory practice in care?

Equality, diversity and anti-discriminatory practice in care: the types and effects of discrimination, and how care workers and services promote equality and challenge discrimination.
An SQA Higher Care answer on equality, diversity and anti-discriminatory practice: what discrimination is, its types (direct, indirect, prejudice, stereotyping), its effects on service users, and how care workers and services promote equality and challenge discrimination.
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How do legislation and codes of practice shape care work?

The legislation and codes of practice that govern contemporary care in Scotland, what the main laws and codes require, and how they protect service users and guide care workers.
An SQA Higher Care answer on the legislation and codes of practice governing care in Scotland: equality, data protection, adult support and protection, the Health and Social Care Standards and the SSSC Codes of Practice. Covers what each requires and how it protects service users.
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