Term Archives

  1. Module 1: Legislation

    In module one, you will explore some key legislation regarding the handling and sharing of confidential personal information of care users.
  2. Brief Description of Handling Information in a Care Setting

    If you desire to hunt a career in a care environment, you must learn to build the people’s trust in your care. One way to achieve this is to make certain that the correct handling of information.
  3. Module 10: Course Summary

    We began the course by defining what we mean by the terms equality and diversity. We saw that equality is the state of being equal particularly in status rights or opportunities. Diversity is the state or quality of being different or varied.
  4. Module 9: Resistance to Feedback

    People may react to feedback in a number of different ways. They may deny what you're saying to them or they may try to justify their actions and explain away the fact that they didn't meet the standard.
  5. Module 8: Valuing Others

    Valuing others is central to the whole issue of equality and diversity. We already defined equality in the previous modules “as the state of being equal particularly in status, rights or opportunities.
  6. Module 7: Institutional Discrimination

    For several years, the idea of institutional discrimination has been in existence. As the name indicates that institutional discrimination exists when a whole organization included rather than just an individual is operating in a discriminatory way with this discrimination.
  7. Module 6: Stereotypes, Prejudices and Discrimination

    Identifying prejudice and discrimination is not always simple because attitudes are often bound up in cultural norms. The ideas and customs we grew up with, we often think of them as just common sense.
  8. Module 5: Links between values, attitudes and beliefs

    The way we behave is governed by our values, attitudes and beliefs. Our values and beliefs are established in early childhood. We are all a product of our upbringing. The four key influences during childhood such as parents, teachers or peers and the media belong to any culture.
  9. Module 4: Promoting diversity

    The actor makes special provisions to help promote diversity within society and organizations. This can include an element of positive discrimination obviously that has to be moderated in some way.
  10. Module 3: What do we mean by discrimination?

    We already know about the word discrimination and heard a lot about it. In this module, we are going to discuss six different types of discrimination including: