Adult Health And Social Care: A Case Study

Sorry to know you had to experience the illness of a loved with whom you have shared your life with for such a long time. Hopefully you will be strengthen by the joy and good times you shared.

The 2030 Problem: Caring for Aging Baby Boomers by James R Knickman and Emily K Snell

In health and social care settings there are principles which govern the practice of healthcare workers to ensure that quality care is provided for service users. This essay will discuss how principles of support are implemented in health and social care practice. It will also explain the theories that underpin health and social care practice and make some contribution to the development and implementation of health and social care organisational policy.

Health and social care organisations increasingly need to work together in partnership to get better value from the available resources and improve services and outcomes for service users, by improving quality of support for service users. Good relationships between partners, a common vision and understanding of expected achievements and what outcomes need to be delivered are critical to the success of partnerships. This will enable a more responsive service, which is well co-ordinated approach to the service delivery, and better value for money by ensuring reduced duplication of services.

Gaps and issues in this stability threaten a patient’s condition and introduce possible risk factors. The key role of health care providers is to sustain an environment that optimizes a safe, effective and secure environment for patients. This safe environment can easily be jeopardized by common risk factors. The already demanding level of the job, death of a patient/friend/family, financial problems, abuse, chaotic work-life balance and mental instability are all examples of possible risk factors that can easily affect a health care workers ability to complete their job at a high standard. If a person is dominated by ‘risk factors’ it can be easy for the nurse or doctor to ‘burn out’. A Masten (1989) argues “maladaptation is more likely to occur when risk factors outweigh protective factors in any given context”. The lack of social and psychological support has affect on one’s ability to perform their job at the highest quality. Thus the level of care for a patient would decrease, breaking the vital communication and trust between patient and

This paper is a critique of a qualitative research article written by Jean-Louis Barsoux and Mittia Gilmartin (2007). The paper clearly outlines and shows how due to government pressure, The King Edgar NHS trust comprising of three hospitals; Clover Hospital, Friar Hospital and Bronte Hospital was developed in 2002. Within a year of its birth the trust was already under the hawk-eyed media for problems regarding long waiting lists in the hospitals. As a solution the Nurse Led Discharge project was developed to deal with this critical issue. This project was a long standing ambition for Tracey Burns who was the executive director of nursing. She took on this project with much enthusiasm being that she had previously been a matron and therefore was relatively aware of the situation in the hospitals first hand. She wanted to ease discomfort of patients who had to wait up to 12 hours in trolleys in the accident and emergency (A&E) department and also to highlight the role of nurses in hospitals which was highly overlooked.

This unit develops understanding of the values and principles that underpin the practice of all those who work in health and social care. The essay consider theories and policies that underpin health and social care practice and explore formal and informal mechanisms required to promote good practice by individuals in the workforce, including strategies that can influence the performance of others. The first part of this essay will consider how principles of support are implemented by using Overton house residential care home to evaluate and explain how principles of support are applied. Key concepts such as person-centred approach and dilemmas and conflicts arising from the

At the time I felt that she was being sent home without appropriate support, but as a first year student nurse I did not confident enough to make my opinions heard. During her last admission Evelyn was made homeless but noöne on the ward seemed concerned by this, so I contacted Evelyn's social worker myself, being aware that whilst fundamentally important to Evelyn's well being arranging accommodation was beyond the scope of my practice and so required the involvement of other health and social care professionals. If Evelyn's social worker had not been able to arrange new housing for her I often wonder what might have happened, my colleagues seemed quite content to concentrate on their own speciality, and neglect the other health and social care needs of our patients (Glasby 2003). From this experience I feel I gained some confidence to stand up for my patients, and I gained knowledge of the rôle other health and social care professionals play in the care of our patients. Assessment of needs at admission and discharge is often subjective and dependent on the nurse assessing (Lees & Emmerson 2006). Our assessment can have long term consequences for our patients' future (in)dependence (Anon 2005) – providing 'too much' care can lead to increased dependence, lack of confidence to cope alone and can lead to premature admission to care homes

At the end of second years, she left Singapore and went to Europe for holiday before returning back to Melbourne in July 2015.

In this essay I want to carefully examine a broad range of issues concerning elderly people in contemporary British society today. In particular I will want to focus on Residential homes and Older People in Community Care services. I will define residential homes and explain how they have become established from the Poor Law workhouses until present day. I will also discuss relevant government legislation with the viewpoints of older people’s pressure groups and the service users who use residential homes. I will try and suggest changes that could be made in social policy that could help advantage retired and elderly people in this the twenty-first century.

a) 8 A hospital ward wants to computerize its data about patients and medications / dosages prescribed for

There is an increase of chronic diseases and complex medical conditions within our society of health and social care as a result there is a growing need of health and social care services to provide support and high quality care to these service users. To ensure safe and effective care health and social care organisations need to recognise and understand the relationship between this growing disease and how more services are required to offer support and guidance for individuals for example the need for expertise, training, partnership working, funding, and improving individuals living conditions. Health and social care organisations have many key priorities for example maintaining a good level of hygiene and maintaining safety and security,

The patient is an 89-year-old gentleman who is brought to the ED via fire department and with complaints of altered mental status. The patient's primary caregiver is his wife at home. This morning when the wife called for the patient he did not respond so she called the police. The police found the patient in bed, awakened him and he was alert and oriented therefore Adult Protective Services was called to evaluate the situation. APS arrived later in the morning, and found the patient babbling and not making any sense so they then called and sent the patient to the emergency room. The patient has a history of congestive failure, hypertension and he also has a colostomy. There is no clinical documentation as to why he has a colostomy.

The primary role of any functioning society It's to ensure its citizens have access to all the necessary tools to survive, strive, and make the community better as a whole, this concept should include but, not limited to the following : food, shelter, rights, duties, functioning justice system, access to education, jobs and, access to health care among many other primordial components to ensure a safe and healthy community and stronger society. In The United States of America citizens enjoy a system designed to care and protect the less privileged and the most vulnerable, and the dedicated people who are in charge of delivering this important life changing task are called Human Service Professionals.

Always Best Care Senior Services is a senior care that has the program for Alzheimer’s diseases. This office mainly covers most of the south bay area including Torrance, Palos Verdes, Lomita, Harbor City, Redondo Beach, Hermosa Beach, San Pedro, Lawndale, and Hawthorne. The address is 21250 Hawthorne Boulevard, Suite 500, Torrance, CA 90503, and it opens 24 hours. Also, walk-in is welcomed for this senior care organization. It has the services of family support, memory care, in-home care and assisted living finder. For Alzheimer’s disease, there is a specific team called MCT, The Memory Care Team, that provide training to caregivers about how to communicate with patients with memory loss, and how to manage and improve difficult behaviors. Also,