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Level 4 Diploma in Health and Social Care Management

Ethical dilemmas and duty of care

HSC401 · Promoting Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in Health and Social Care — Week 10 of 16

CourseHSC401
Week10 of 16
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This week’s topics

Ethical dilemmas and duty of care

  1. Resolving conflicts between personal autonomy and safety
  2. Ethical decision-making models in care management
  3. Navigating refusal of care and self-neglect
  4. Professional codes of conduct
  5. Nursing Ethics of Care and Principles: Fundamentals of Nursing |@LevelUpRN
  6. Shared decision making

What you will be able to do

  • 4.1 Analyse how to address ethical dilemmas in the workplace when balancing individual rights with the duty of care.

Activity

Start with this week’s 2 videos, then: Seminar, guided reading and a short written task: analyse how to address ethical dilemmas in the workplace when balancing individual rights with the duty of care.

Study materials

Videos

  • Nursing Ethics of Care and Principles: Fundamentals of Nursing |@LevelUpRN · YouTube · Level Up RN · 13 min · for registered students
  • Shared decision making · YouTube · The Health Foundation · 6 min · for registered students

Further resources

  • Decision-making and mental capacity (NICE guideline NG108, 2018) · Reading · Nice, guidance · for registered students
  • Montgomery v Lanarkshire Health Board [2015] UKSC 11 · PDF · Other, case law; 28 pages · for registered students
  • People's experience in adult social care services (NICE guideline NG86, 2018) · Reading · Nice, guidance · for registered students
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Course plan
  • Week 1: Core concepts of EDI
  • Week 2: Legislative frameworks in health and social care
  • Week 3: Models of practice and systemic barriers
  • Week 4: Policy and procedure evaluation
  • Week 5: Human rights approaches and individual outcomes
  • Week 6: Communicating and supporting EDI across teams
  • Week 7: Challenging discrimination and exclusion
  • Midterm: Midterm evaluation
  • Week 9: Principles of informed choice and mental capacity
  • Week 10: Ethical dilemmas and duty of care
  • Week 11: Strategic risk management and rights enablement
  • Week 12: Applying Promoting Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in Hea…
  • Week 13: Assignment workshop: research, planning and referencing
  • Week 14: Assignment workshop: drafting, feedback and improvement
  • Week 15: Review and coursework completion
  • Final: Final assessment and submission
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