Course overview
Why do I need this course?
- Comply with legal obligations around people’s rights
- Reflect on your practice to provide the best care possible for patients
- Develop interpersonal skills
- Provide person-centred care
What will I learn?
- Principles that underpin privacy and dignity in care
- How to maintain the privacy and dignity of individuals
- How to support an individual to in make choices
- How to support active participation
Who is this course for?
- All staff working in the health and social care sector
- Anyone who works with the general public
Part of the Care Certificate
The Skills for Health Care Certificate bundle provides a set of high-quality eLearning courses aligned to the Care Certificate standards. The bundle is designed to complement work-based assessment of skills by a competent assessor, and forms the core e-learning component of the certificate
All courses aligned to the Care Certificate standards can be purchased as part of a bundle here.
Course details
This course aims to focus the learners’ attention on the different ways that privacy and dignity can be maintained or undermined in various health and social care settings.
The course uses different case studies to illustrate the key points, examples of poor care and good care, and encourages learners to reflect on their practice and the practice of the teams in which they work.
This session makes use of reflective learning techniques and encourages learners to use the reflective note-making facility to build on their understanding of privacy and dignity in their practice.
Upon completion of this course, the learner will be able to:
- Discuss the principles that underpin privacy and dignity in care.
- Maintain the privacy and dignity of individuals when providing personal care.
- Explain why it is important not to disclose information that an individual may wish to keep secret unless it is important to do so.
- Describe how individuals have the right to make choices including decisions about their care.
- Describe how risk assessment processes may be used to support the right of individuals to make their own decisions
This course is made up of the following modules:
- Privacy and Dignity
- Assessment
- Course Length: 30 mins
