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.
Background Information
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 capabilities. The same applies to the U.K. Increasing ethnicity diversity is one of the key aspects of demographic alteration characteristic in the UK. According to reports from 2011 census, 16% of the British population, including both Wales and England, was made up of non-white people compared with 1991 report which presented the rate to be 5% (Victor, Martin, and Zubair, 2012). This is quite a spike in this portion of the population over that duration. On the hand, there is a trend where ‘old age’ is emerging as the new aspect of population among immigrant community majorly from the ex-colonial nations of the South Asia and the Caribbean. Majorly the Bangladesh, India and Pakistan immigrants who came looking for better economic opportunities in Britain many decades ago. An approximation figures show an 18% level of the ‘whites’ as aged 65 years and above compared to 4% from Pakistani, Bangladeshi and Chinese populations. However, 7% of the Indians and 13% of Caribbean are 65+, and most of these members in those categories are the first generation of migrants. The aging population therefore, also has much weight when it comes to the interpretation of the demographics within these regions (Victor, Martin, and Zubair, 2012).
The central theme or focus of this project is to perform a qualitative as well as a quantitative critical research analysis, on the social care in Pakistani and Bangladeshi populations. Most of these individuals moved into the country in search of better opportunities and better lives compared to their motherlands. These communities are marked by high morbidity, social exclusion and deprivation levels as compared the general population. Previous studies and other research have focused more on health care access issues and other studies narrow projects. In this paper, the project on focus is families as well as caring for the South Asian Populations focusing on understanding different perceptions as well as experiences of the old age, their afterward life among other.
Research design and Data Collection
The research design for data collection is indepth interviews and focus group intervies. The activities are scheduled to take about an hour and only the whole of the interview is administered in English. Nevertheless, interpretation was done but English words were applied for critical discussions that involved specific issues such as formal service care. The research design benefits a lot from the unbreakable links that exist from experience through interacting with the surrounding local community (Robinson et al., 2013). The community norm is a critical resource because it will help in explaining how the community members could cope with old age in a land away from home.
The families are keen and willing to nominate family members for the exercise. Research population will involve 110 people from both genders who are aged 50 years and above living in both Bangladeshi and Pakistani communities living in the designated medium-sized urban locality in the southern region of England. The groups must have lived therefore for long, and we averaged the period to be 25 years (Victor, Martin, and Zubair, 2012). They are claimed to be predominantly of the ‘first generation’ foreign migrants who came looking for new opportunities for economic contentment for men and marriage for the women.
Critiques to Research Design
As much as the study and research process went on well, there were so many challenges faced, therefore discounting the notion that it was wholly effective and flawless. The first problem to be experienced was language barrier. This was essentially because only a few words used were in English. As is always the case, translation from one language to the other doesn’t always incorporate the initial meanings of the words. Some of the content is lost during the translation since there might not be exact words in the other language. The data had to be translated too, and this means the terms or words lost their meaning within the process thus creating a big drift or ‘distance’ between the transcripts and the data available to the team (Robinson et al., 2013).
Additionally, web family ties for the participants demonstrated complex models rather than a simplistic one. It was caused by the poor locally-based networks of kinship which was linked to family relationships as it was a norm. The research design relied a lot on the networks, however, the links were very weak as a result of reported deaths of significant members in the links who played an essential role in bringing the people together in both Pakistan and Bangladesh communities.
Policies and Guidelines in EBR
Evidence based practice is the utilization of the available, up-to-date pieces of information and instances ,as evidence that can be picked up and applied in various nursing care settings in the medical field. It all goes down to the use of the best instances to come up with the most appropriate decisions when handling a patient. To do this effectively, a systematic compilation and analysis of research work, combined with medical or clinical expertise come to the fore. Evidence-based practice (EBP) is concerned with knowledge and curiosity. When did it become knowledge? Where did it come from? Who determines the good knowledge? Why do we consider this knowledge as better than what some of us already know?
When a deep-insight is done in the professional or expert context activity, the concept of duty to those practitioners to owe the duty effort and then enters the mix (Aveyard, H. and Sharp, P., 2013). To illustrate the challenges in the practice, a literal analysis of relevant personal experiences is taken into consideration. We explore the participants’ experiences and understandings of care as well as support in our context of dealing with older people.
EBP incorporates various components such as the use of the best available evidence. However, most of its concerns and barriers involve finding and applying research. The clinician's knowledge and skills are part of a personal scope of practice consist of activities undertaken (Victor Martin and Zubair, 2012). Patient's wants and needs make the last component. The patient's wants or needs are considered to the key element of the EBP. They are considered important in EBP since it is these patient needs that set up the entire chain of procedures and protocol. These needs are supposed to be satisfied in the best way possible. The patient is supposed to bring forward his or her situation, condition, expectations and even values. In most cases, the patient is also supposed to lay out his or her personal preferences before the subsequent steps can be taken. The evidence therefore, doesn’t literally act as the solution, rather, it just contributes the bits that are crucial in the final solution.
Ethical, Legal and professional Issue in EBR
In both communities, as much as it might be considered to be one of the important parameters, chronological age did not count as a significant element of identity. The community members had a specific meaning of age, and the interpretation for this was made with reference to Pakistan- Bangladesh and not British. People in their 50s whether a man or woman readily referred to themselves as ‘old’ but they were at ages we would generally define it as a &lsqu...