Professional Boundaries in Aged Care: The Basics
Learn how you can maintain professional boundaries when providing care.
Description
Knowing your place in a professional setting is vital for a healthy workplace and maintaining healthy professional relationships. Boundaries exist to ensure safety, comfort and consistency. Knowing what constitutes as professional and personal is important for both workers and people in their care.
Participants will learn what actions cross professional boundaries and how to identify requests from older Australians that may be considered unwanted and unprofessional.
Learning Objective
By the end of this question set, learners will be able to:
- Recognise actions that cross professional boundaries to ensure unwanted interactions with older Australians do not occur
- Identify approaches to respectfully manage requests to avoid overstepping professional boundaries with older Australians.
Questions
- Accepting gifts
- Giving gifts
- Favours
- Social life
- Sharing stories
- Social media friends
- Social media posts
- Sex and romance
- Set limits
- Check the rules
- Alternative gift suggestions
- Fairness
Professional Boundaries in Aged Care: The Basics
Learn how you can maintain professional boundaries when providing care.
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