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Unit 4: Ethics

8 You should communicate effectively with service users and your education provider and placement providers.

  • You should take all reasonable steps to make sure that you can communicate appropriately and effectively with service users.
  • You should communicate effectively and cooperate with colleagues to benefit service users.
  • You should communicate effectively and cooperate with the programme team and placement team.
  • Where appropriate, you should share your knowledge with colleagues.

9 You should get ‘informed consent’ from service users to carry out any intervention, except in emergencies.

Informed consent is when someone has all the information they need, in a format they can understand, to make a decision about whether or not they want to give their permission to have a particular intervention.
You should do the following (except in emergencies):

  • You should make sure that before you carry out any intervention, the service user is aware that you are a student.
  • You should make sure that the service user has given their permission for the intervention to be carried out by a student.
  • You should explain the intervention you are planning to carry out.
  • Before you carry out any intervention, you should explain any risks associated with it.
  • You should follow your education provider’s or placement provider’s policy on consent.

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SMILE - Ethics by The BPS code of human research ethics, The HPC guidance on conduct and ethics for students, modified by Marion Kelt Glasgow Caledonian University is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.
Based on a work at http://www.bps.org.uk/sites/default/files/documents/code_of_human_research_ethics.pdf, http://www.hpc-uk.org/assets/documents/10002D1BGuidanceonconductandethicsforstudents.pdf, http://www.gcal.ac.uk/hr/policies/general/code_of_good_practice_in_research.doc, http://www.gcu.ac.uk/registry/secretariat/documents/EthicsBookletMarch2011asonwebsite.doc.