Professional Boundaries in Care

Building meaningful relationships with the people you care for is essential, but it’s equally important to maintain clear professional boundaries. 

This 30 minute course empowers you to understand and uphold these boundaries, ensuring a safe and ethical care environment.

Understanding Boundaries: Explore the concept of professional boundaries and their significance in care work.

Recognising Challenges: Identify potential challenges that can blur professional boundaries.

Setting Limits: Learn how to establish and maintain clear boundaries in various care settings.

Professional Conduct: Understand the importance of ethical behaviour and maintaining professional standards.

Key outcomes:

By the end of this course, you’ll be able to:

  • Understand what professional boundaries are in health and social care
  • Describe the importance of professional boundaries in health and social care
  • Identify the challenges involved in your work and how they could relate to reasons for breaking professional boundaries
  • Recall the major boundaries that could have implications for your practice and behaviour and how to manage them
  • Differentiate between a personal and a professional relationship
  • Understand how communication can be easily misinterpreted and misunderstood
  • Evaluate and identify, using example scenarios, where professional boundaries could be broken.

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