Assessment Guidance: Exploring Personal Values and Experiences in Health and Social Care

Personal Values and Health and Social Care

Assessment Guidance

The Question:

‘Thinking about yourself, how well do you think are your experience, values and principles consistent with professional requirements of health and social care contemporary practices?’

-Make sure to talk about yourself, your thoughts, your values, whilst taking into account principles, regulations and codes of practice learnt this semester.

A plan to help you

You might want to write:

1) An introduction: What are you going to do? What is the point of this assignment? (100 words approx.)

2) A paragraph exploring/talking about your personal values related to health and social care. You might want to choose two values to begin with (250 words approx.)

3) You might want to write a paragraph talking about your own experiences and how these experiences relate to health and social care, e.g., have you cared for someone, have you had your own experience in health and social care – you might have been ill (250 words approx.)

4) You might then like to write two paragraphs about how your values and experiences link to some of the theories, regulations, or codes of practices that you have read this semester. For example, you might want to refer to Health Care and Professions Council (HCPC) Code of Conduct, Professional Standards Authority (PSA), Safeguarding Adults, Children’s Act (1989), patient centred care or something else that you have found. (500 words approx.)

5) A conclusion telling the reader why through your values and experiences and the theories or evidence you have provided, why you are sited to a career in health and social care (100 words approx.)