Care Certificate Standard 7 - Privacy and Dignity
Care Certificate Standard 7 - Privacy and Dignity - Online Training Course.
Welcome to The Mandatory Training Group's Care Certificate Standard 7 online course. All our online training courses, programmes and qualifications are accredited by the CPD Certification Service (CPDUK).
The Care Certificate Standard 7 focuses on privacy and dignity in providing care and support. This standard explores the principles of maintaining privacy and dignity for individuals receiving care. It covers topics such as understanding what privacy and dignity mean, how they can be compromised, and techniques for maintaining privacy and dignity in care settings.
Privacy is providing personal space, while dignity means valuing every individual, respecting their views, decisions, and choices, avoiding assumptions, showing care and compassion, and communicating directly with them whenever possible.
Course content
This Care Certificate Standard 7 - Privacy and Dignity online course is divided into the following sections:
- Unit 1 - Introduction
- Unit 2 - Privacy and dignity
- Unit 3 - Making choices
- Unit 4 - The dignity factors
- Unit 5 - Privacy of information
- Unit 6 - Dignity in practice
- End of course assessment.
Who is the course for?
The Care Certificate Standard 7- Privacy and Dignity was developed for new healthcare and social care staff as part of their workplace induction.
The primary audience of the Care Certificate is healthcare support workers or adult social care workers. It is also suitable for existing health and social care staff who do not hold recognised qualifications.
Clinical support roles
The Care Certificate Standard 7 is suitable for those giving support to clinical roles in the NHS and other healthcare settings where there is any direct contact with patients, including:
- Health care assistants
- Care support workers
- Assistant practitioners.
Adult social care workers
The Care Certificate Standard 7 is also suitable for those giving support in community settings, including:
- Adult social care workers in residential, nursing homes and hospices
- Care home workers
- Domiciliary care staff.
Non-clinical roles
The Care Certificate Standard 7 is also suitable for other social care roles, including:
- Caring volunteers
- Porters
- Cooks
- Drivers with direct contact with patients/ service users.
Course aims
The aims of this Care Certificate Standard 7 - Privacy and Dignity online course are to:
- Understand the principles that underpin privacy and dignity in care.
- Appreciate the need to support individuals in making choices about their care.
Learning objectives
On completion of this Care Certificate Standard 7 - Privacy and Dignity online course, the learner will be able to:
- State the principles that underpin privacy and dignity in care.
- Provide support to individuals in making choices about their care.
- Maintain the privacy and dignity of the individuals in their care.
- Support the individual in active participation in their care.
- Explain the importance of maintaining the privacy and dignity of individuals in care.
Learning outcomes
On completion of this Care Certificate Standard 7 - Privacy and Dignity online course, the learner will be able to:
- Define privacy and dignity.
- Maintain the privacy and dignity of the individuals in their care.
- Support individuals in making choices about their care.
- Demonstrate that the privacy and dignity of the individual are always maintained in line with the person’s needs and preferences when providing personal care.
- Explain the importance of maintaining the privacy and dignity of individuals in care.
- Demonstrate that they can support the active participation of individuals in their care.
- List other ways they can use to support active participation.
- Understand the principles that underpin privacy and dignity in care.
- Maintain the privacy and dignity of the individuals in their care.
