Balancing Rights and Tensions

What tensions can someone encounter?

Balancing the right of individuals must be done against our duty of care

• true

• false

How can you manage tensions?

Risks may not be understood by service users, or they may think the benefits outweigh rights.

• Expectations versus resources

• Safeguarding

• Identified risks versus individual wishes

• Duty of care

Care practitioner has a duty of care to ......... whilst empowering to allow for positive risks.

An amputees may want to be able to apply there make up but without resources this may be impossible.

• Expectations versus resources

• Duty of care

• Identified risks versus individual wishes

• Safeguarding

What is empowerment?

Name and describe a factor you need to analyse in assignment.

What am I doing when in LRC?