Impact of personal values of practitioners on care delivery

Introduction

One of the significant factors impacting the health delivery process is the diversity that influences the personal values of care practitioners and the care approach of patients. The personal values of care providers are crucial to ensure patient safety and justice and enhance care quality. The present essay will highlight the core health and care values and their development in health care workers. It will emphasize the development of diversity in practitioners to ensure justice and anti-discrimination in health processes. It will also present the impact of service providers’ values of service users and related legislations in the UK, protecting patients from injustice and inequalities.

Discussion

Personal and ethical care values are essential for healthcare workers as they govern their behaviours and healthcare conduct (Haddad & Geiger, 2021). These values enable them to determine between right and wrong while taking decisions that ultimately impact the patients’ outcomes. The core values include altruism, human dignity, autonomy, social justice, honesty, and integrity (Poorchangizi et al., 2019). The healthcare workers are ethically and professionally bound to prevent maltreatment of patients, decrease harm to them, and promote good for them. The ethical duty is labelled as beneficence, demonstrating that patients’ benefits must surpass the risk of harm (Morrell et al., 2019). The concept extension of goodwill is non-maleficence that is recognized as an essential value for health care practitioners. It involves nurses to ensure that their actions do not cause any harm to patient (Tiruneh & Ayele, 2018). It is most difficult to uphold as it can lead to various ethical dilemmas in nursing where they have to choose immediate health benefits with long-term choices. Another personal value that nurses must uphold is offering decision-making power to patients. Every patient has the right to choose their healthcare pathways based upon their personal values and beliefs (Morrell et al., 2019). The value is named as autonomy which can lead to conflicts with nurses’ suggestions and care guidelines. Along with autonomy, every patient has the right to get equal and fair treatment compliant to patients with similar conditions. It involves justice that ascertain that the patients are treatment irrespective of their race, caste, gender, socioeconomic status, and age (Suen, 2019). These values are globally shared by all healthcare practitioners and reflect the core humane and ethical approaches to care practice. However, several social, cultural, economic, and religious values impact them to tailor the care according to local needs of patient (Poorchangizi et al., 2019). The healthcare educators and managers play a vital role in development of these values in junior and student practitioners and facilitate in building their empathetic perceptions. Moreover, student professionals can also improve these values through observation and role-playing activities. The senior professionals and care leaders can act as role models, exhibiting effective clinical skills, professional commitment, sense of responsibility, and values of honesty, kindness, and flexibility. The establishment of supportive learning atmosphere and encouraging decision-making, critical thinking, and leadership qualities can also help to foster the core personal and ethical values in health care professionals. Moreover, real-life scenarios can also facilitate in teaching strategies to meet clinical dilemmas….