Care certificate standard 07: Privacy and Dignity

The online course for ‘Privacy and Dignity’ helps to provide important information and knowledge to healthcare workers. This knowledge can be used to help toward gaining the ‘Care Certificate’. It can be taken as part of the ‘Care Certificate: Full Package’.

Promote and uphold the privacy, dignity, rights, health and well being of people who use health and care services and their carers at all times.

• Understand the principles of privacy and dignity in care
• Describe the methods of maintaining the privacy and dignity of individuals
• Understanding the individual’s right to make choices and supporting them to make decisions about their care
• Understand how to support active participation
• Support the individual in active participation in their own care