1.1 Explain The Importance Of Group-Advocacy In Health And Social Care

Staff working in partnership with a service user’s family will become more aware of families' individual needs, and know more about an elderly person's home context, thus enabling them to be aware of how the care home is different or similar to their own home and understand the elderly person’s behaviour with this in mind.

Make sure that the individual’s voice has been heard and that they are included in any decisions made if the individual lacks capacity it may be good to bring in family or an advocate to speak on behalf of the individual so that they still have a voice and their choices and rights are still there for them.

should check the care plan in order to know they are providing the correct care and support and following the individuals wishes. If any problems are recognised then the care plan can be updated to reflect these changes.

In order to exercise your duty of care, staff must ensure that any decisions and choices people make are based on understanding the consequences and potential risks of what they want to do. Care worker role is not to prevent people from doing what they want, but making sure that they know the possible results. This can result in some very finely balanced decisions, especially where there are concerns about someone’s capacity to understand the possible risks and consequences from their actions. The question of capacity to make decisions is highly complex and staff must consider it carefully. It is very easy to make the assumption that because someone has dementia, a learning disability or a long-term mental health problem, for example, they lack the capacity to make decisions about important issues affecting their own life.

Nursing is defined as the promotion, protection and the prevention of illness and Injury, the treatment of a patient’s disease or diseases, the patient’s response to a disease, as well as one big thing that nurses are known for, and that is being a patient’s advocate nursing has been one of the fastest growing fields since the 1990’s (Mueller et al.,2012). Advocacy is defined as an action in which a person speaks out, argues a cause, supports and defends on the behalf of others. I believe that the role of being a patient advocate is one of the most important things a nurse can do because there are many patients that cannot speak on their behalf, I believe that it is up to the nurses to be those patients as well as all patient’s voices (Mueller et al., 2012).

1.1 Explain how and why person centred values must influence all aspects of health and social care work.

This involves considering the ability of service providers to continually listen to, learn about, and facilitate opportunities with, the people they are supporting. It is important to note that the individual with care and support needs, their participation is considered beyond the individual planning meeting. (which may be an important part of the decision making process). Rather, active participation throughout the entire individual planning process is discussed. There are four common themes in person-centred planning assessments. These are:

Of course there will be important conflicts of interest between service users and their carers which will need to be faced up to at an individual level. But services should not be provided by exploiting the personal commitment and dedication of carers. Families who care for individuals whose behaviour presents challenges are subject to considerable and continual stress, both physical and psychological. Although staffs is not permanently on duty as family carers can be, they are still subject to the same stresses when supporting people whose behaviour challenges. This is true even in settings which aim to do no more than contain people. Similar concerns apply to staff as to carers. The higher aspirations often found in progressive services impose extra strain on staff and here too it is important to balance the demands of working constructively with people who can be very difficult, day in and day out, with the needs of individual staff for emotional and practical respite and ongoing support. Demographic changes and rising expectations will

I am going to discuss the care strategies that can be used to support individuals and discuss the circumstances in which they might use.

It is important to review care and support plans as people’s needs change. By including the person, their family then everyone knows what is happening and the family can help to monitor mood swings and behaviour. The individual and the family can express their views and preferences and any relevant risk assessments may be done with everyone involved. By monitoring the individual, a decision can be made as to whether the changes are effective and if the best care is being given to encourage independence and promote dignity.

The key factor that had been identified to facilitating advocacy is to develop ‘nurse-patient relationship’. Piper (2010) had mentioned that, this relationship is indeed necessary to create the right climate for decision making. From patients’ perspective, appropriate relationship between a nurse and patient is necessary for advocacy. Patients had even mentioned that, the establish relationship between nurse and patient is more important that family relationship as nurses gave them a sense of security and patients value it. The nurse role of an advocator can be influence by the quality of nurse-patient relationship. Having this professional relationship had promoted the patient’s involvement in their self

2. The residents and their relatives must be at the centre of decisions about their care. Their voices and those of their promoters must be heard, and their decisions and needs are known and regarded. (Persons Centred)

Advocacy, while used in a plethora of forms, contexts and situations, the term in itself can be quite vague unfortunately resulting in various interpretations into its meaning (Vaartio, 2006). A literature search review conducted on five search topics: advocacy, patient advocacy, nursing advocacy, and

I am able to perform multiple skills in my role as a nurse administrator as well as a family nurse practitioner. The nurse administrator role will allow the opportunity for me to act in the role of an nurse leader and advocate throughout the institution. The impact can be magnified as the nurse administrator can act as a catalyst to all nursing staff. Patient advocacy is a component that is essential to the practice of nursing. According to Shulman (2015), “The

Living a long, thriving and healthy life is a vision many Americans strive to make into a reality. Unfortunately, HIV/AIDS epidemic has deprived many people of this dream. HIV/AIDS is one of the worlds’ most serious and the deadliest diseases and a $30.4 billion drain on healthcare cost in the United States, and of this figures’ 57% is appropriated for routine care, 10% for housing and social support assistance, 9% for research and 22% for global assistance to address the epidemic (The Henry J. Kaiser Foundation, 2016). According to Small & Kerr, (2011), HIV/AIDS research has had a long and peculiar history in evidence-based advances related to disease management, education, and antiretroviral medication. With all the advances to increase HIV/AIDS awareness, access to care, fear of stigma and lack of confidentiality act as reasoning for treatment and testing refusal. The purpose of this paper is to discuss the possible course of public policy mandate reporting and incorporating responses to legal and ethical dilemmas through effective advocacy programs and supportive lobbyists.