This essay aims to demonstrate an understanding of discrimination and power and how important it is to nursing and social work practice.
Nursing is the provision of clinical, psychosocial care while promoting and achieving a good quality of life whatever the ailment until death, whereas Social workers are agents of social control and stability while promoting social justice, empowerment and enhancing the wellbeing of a dignified life and keeping in line with their values.
Power is the ability to make others do what you want them to do. It is a central theme in society and should be used positively to empower clients. It is sometimes subconsciously used in daily practice by the integrated practitioners.
It is also important to note that …show more content…
We are legally protected from discrimination by the Equality Act 2010.
The outcome of unfair discrimination is oppression. Both nursing and social work professions must practice good anti-discriminatory practice in the health and social care services. It is a moral duty to practice anti-discriminatory practice. The NMC, HCPC and BASW codes of conduct/ethics strictly express the practice of good Anti-Discrimination as part of the regulations. The client groups in this field are susceptible to discrimination, and many of the problems faced as in this sector are exacerbated by discrimination.
To further understand the characteristics of these inequalities and power differences in society which exist co-dependent of each other Neil Thompson (2001) explains it in a form of P(personal)C(cultural), S(structural)analysis model of daily life which sees society in structures of similarities, he says people are grouped or divided according to the latter. E.g. gender, class, race, sexuality and …show more content…
Conflict theory, on the other hand, focuses on how power structures inequality impact on people’s lives. Karl Marx analyses society in the 19th century and finding that society revolves around different stages namely feudalism, capitalism and socialism, thus coming up with that society is divided into the rich and poor he calls them the Bourgeoise and Proletariat, The Bourgeoise being the rich who own factories and capitalised on the profits and production whereas the Proletariat working class being the poor labour force earning wages from the rich owners who exploit them. The proletariat gets to a point of realisation of inequality of classes and wants a change then came about the middle classes who are in between the rich and poor and take on supervisory positions in factories. This shows no equality after a while, it still brings unhappiness to the poor labourers as they are still not in power, as the middle class and the rich are now all in power. Social order and Social changes are still creating instability among groups, this brings about the Conflict theory. In this theory, he believes that all groups of society experience some form of injustice and discrimination. He says that groups are all equal, but some are more equal than others. The bourgeois state serves as a mutual insurance pact which protects the interests of the bourgeois class at the
Nursing is the provision of clinical, psychosocial care while promoting and achieving a good quality of life whatever the ailment until death, whereas Social workers are agents of social control and stability while promoting social justice, empowerment and enhancing the wellbeing of a dignified life and keeping in line with their values.
Power is the ability to make others do what you want them to do. It is a central theme in society and should be used positively to empower clients. It is sometimes subconsciously used in daily practice by the integrated practitioners.
It is also important to note that …show more content…
We are legally protected from discrimination by the Equality Act 2010.
The outcome of unfair discrimination is oppression. Both nursing and social work professions must practice good anti-discriminatory practice in the health and social care services. It is a moral duty to practice anti-discriminatory practice. The NMC, HCPC and BASW codes of conduct/ethics strictly express the practice of good Anti-Discrimination as part of the regulations. The client groups in this field are susceptible to discrimination, and many of the problems faced as in this sector are exacerbated by discrimination.
To further understand the characteristics of these inequalities and power differences in society which exist co-dependent of each other Neil Thompson (2001) explains it in a form of P(personal)C(cultural), S(structural)analysis model of daily life which sees society in structures of similarities, he says people are grouped or divided according to the latter. E.g. gender, class, race, sexuality and …show more content…
Conflict theory, on the other hand, focuses on how power structures inequality impact on people’s lives. Karl Marx analyses society in the 19th century and finding that society revolves around different stages namely feudalism, capitalism and socialism, thus coming up with that society is divided into the rich and poor he calls them the Bourgeoise and Proletariat, The Bourgeoise being the rich who own factories and capitalised on the profits and production whereas the Proletariat working class being the poor labour force earning wages from the rich owners who exploit them. The proletariat gets to a point of realisation of inequality of classes and wants a change then came about the middle classes who are in between the rich and poor and take on supervisory positions in factories. This shows no equality after a while, it still brings unhappiness to the poor labourers as they are still not in power, as the middle class and the rich are now all in power. Social order and Social changes are still creating instability among groups, this brings about the Conflict theory. In this theory, he believes that all groups of society experience some form of injustice and discrimination. He says that groups are all equal, but some are more equal than others. The bourgeois state serves as a mutual insurance pact which protects the interests of the bourgeois class at the