Health or Social Care Professions: Ethics and Values

Overview

Framework:
Access to HE 2024
Level:
Level 3
Unit No:
Not available
Credits:
3
Guided learning hours:
Not available

Qualification Grading Type

Graded

Unit Learning Outcomes

1.

Be able to examine the culture and values which underpin health or social care codes of practice/conduct.

Assessment Criteria

  • 1.1.

    Explain the culture and values which underpin the health or social care codes of practice/conduct.

  • 1.2.

    Analyse how the culture and values which underpin health or social care professions are implemented in practice.

  • 1.3.

    Assess the implications of not following these codes of practice/conduct.

2.

Understand how the implementation of ethical frameworks have the potential to impact on health or social care professionals.

Assessment Criteria

  • 2.1.

    Outline two ethical aspects which affect health or social care professionals.

  • 2.2.

    Analyse how these two ethical aspects are implemented in practice.

3.

Be able to recognise ethical dilemmas in the health or social care sector and how they can be avoided.

Assessment Criteria

  • 3.1.

    Explain three situations which pose ethical dilemmas within the health or social care sector.

  • 3.2.

    Analyse ways in which each situation could have been avoided.