Best Care Givers Report

In the health and social care setting it’s imperative that we take a holistic approach within all aspects of our work settings. As carer’s, a holistic approach of person centred care is when planning care needs and considerations, and the type of individually tailored care packages and provision is of great importance.

Johns Hopkins Home Care Group (JHHCG) established in 1983 is a subsidiary of Johns Hopkins Medicine, one of the nation’s leading health systems. It provides home medical equipment, specialty infusion services, pediatrics at home, home health services, personal care and nursing, hospice care, and pharmacy—specialty and community services. JHHCG provided services all over Maryland and in some portions of northern Virginia and southeast Pennsylvania to pediatrics and adults in the comfort of their living space.

My career commitment as a nurse has grown tremendously over the past three years; through my daily experiences as a Medical Assistant. I have devoted my time as a full time student and employee of the health care profession. Both of these occupations have helped shape me into the person I want to be for as long as time allows. Daily I witness these community role models that posses abilities such as problem solving skills, promotion and protection of an individual’s advocacy all tied in with compassion to meet the health care needs of an individual.

Brief Bio: Pamela Mann is the Director of Programs and Rounds Training at The Schwartz Center for Compassionate Healthcare, and is responsible for many aspects of its programs, including the national expansion of The Schwartz Rounds™ program, now offered at 500 healthcare organizations throughout the U.S., Canada and the United Kingdom. Schwartz Rounds provides support to healthcare workers facing social and emotional issues as they care for patients and families. In contrast to traditional medical rounds, the focus is on the human dimension of medicine, with the premise being that caregivers are better able to make personal connections with patients and colleagues when they have greater insight into their own responses and feelings.

The Canadian government has implemented measures to increase the availability of in home care givers in Canada. The laws that have been created have allowed for many people to become fully pledged Canadian citizens. Many of the people coming into Canada to fill in in house care givers vacancies have been predominantly Pilipino women. These women are given the promise of become a Canadian citizen. After an extensive and costly application process these women from the Philippines are placed in the homes of their employer. The migrant work must live within the employers home for a period no shorter than two years, and must maintain only one employer in the two year waiting .l period. Only once the two year commitment is fulfilled is the migrant worker allowed to apply to Canadian citizenship. Many of these workers come to canada with the promise of have social upwards mobility through the program. However, although the program sounds promising the reality of the program is to

First, I want to thank those that were able to make it out today to the meeting. Your attendance was a progressive step towards completing this Healthcare fair's mission. For further meeting dates, a link will be sent out in the next few days to take votes on the most convenient dates and time for us all. To build great teamwork, there must first be people. I envision unity amongst this team and I hope we all can come to an agreement on the next meeting dates.

My former caregivers embody the skilled nursing professional that I hope to one day become. They never allowed their personal beliefs to get in the way of patient care. They were committed to learning and bettering themselves for their patients. They were not afraid to admit what they did not know but they also refused to give up until they found answers. They were willing to help assist other medical professionals because they understood the importance of uplifting their team. They were efficient multitaskers that remained organized and detail oriented. My former nurses were committed to supporting and believing in patients that did not have the strength to do it themselves. For the nurses I encountered, nursing was not a just job. It was a way of life that they were dedicated to and passionate about. I will never be able to fully repay those who helped me, but I can support them by joining them in their continuing efforts to better serve the community.

My paternal grandmother, Lucille, has many chronic conditions, yet we decided to focus on her diabetes for the majority of questions concerning her health and wellness. When asked, Lucille could not remember when she was first diagnosed with diabetes, but does remember when she “switched from taking pills to taking insulin.” She began taking insulin the spring of 2009 after her doctor decided it was time to switch. She has had two incidences where her blood sugar was so low that she could not even call out for help. Both times were in the night and thankfully at that time her husband (my grandfather) found her and was able to get the necessary help. After these incidences, she switched to taking her insulin in the morning instead of before bed.

During one of my rotations, I was assigned a young adult patient who had run out of insulin and had been admitted to the hospital following a Diabetes Ketoacidosis (DKA) episode. I realized that my patient was probably torn between buying insulin and buying healthy food because her chart showed several admissions in the

Person centred approach to care delivery:: Keeping as a primary concern the true objective to fit in with staff working illustrations, people living in care homes may have expected to get up generously earlier in the morning than they expected to, or go to bed altogether earlier during the evening. This joins getting up and going to bed amid a period that suits them, settling on choices about the support they have to eat, the pieces of clothing they have to wear and the activities they have to

Chapman further defines a Healing Hospital and Radical Loving Care environment to possess the following: all employees will treat patients with loving care, every leader will treat staff with respect and love, all hires must exemplify a Servants Heart, employees’ reviews will be based on outcomes and people who cannot uphold the mission of the hospital will be terminated. The expectations laid out before leaders and frontline employees were simple yet powerful. If compassion and love is not exchanged between co-workers, than how can loving care reach the patient. A Servants Heart is an essential characteristic of all health care workers, they must have a passion to serve and show empathy to those in need. The Baptist Healing Trust’s, Compassionate Care Initiative, further states, “Because we believe in the humanity and dignity of each human being as created by God, we deem that care must be compassionate in order to be truly healing” ( Baptist Healing Trust ). A Healing Hospital embraces the religious teachings of Jesus and encourages employees to demonstrate compassionate and unconditional love as Jesus did when caring for their patients. Chapman’s echoes the message sent by Jesus, do unto others as you would want others to do unto you. For this writer, the way in which the patients’ gown is described as

Interacting with patients at St. Rose Sienna Hospital fulfills my sense of purpose; helping others. Coming across patients ranging from labor contractions to gunshots trains me to stay calm when they are frightened and apprehensive. I am often tasked with the training of new volunteers. Over time, I have been able to build friendships with peers and staff. My main responsibility is discharging inpatients. I do my best to communicate effectively by engaging them in conversation. I spend 15 minutes learning about life stories, current complications, and future plans. I am the last impression a

For as long as I can remember, I have been overwhelmed with a desire to care for those in need, and I feel this ultimately led me to the career choice of nursing. I chose nursing as my profession because I truly believe that the desire to help people through nursing is a calling, and I feel drawn toward helping those in need. Nursing is an honorable career, and should not be treated as just a job to earn a paycheck. My mission is to proudly provide nonjudgmental care to those in need regardless of race, spiritual beliefs, lifestyle choices, financial status, or disability. Before entering to the profession of nursing, it is important to explore my personal values and principles that will guide my nursing practice. My philosophy is that nurses have a responsibility to the public to provide safe, holistic, patient-centered care. This paper will explore the values I feel are necessary in relating to patients as well as health professionals, my personal work culture, and society as a whole.

Our team is comprised of wonderful problem solvers who think quickly on their feet to solve the worst of problems with different brackets of measure in each case. To best help the patient we set goals, Geriatricians, nurses, social workers, pharmacists, etc. do the best they can to achieve each medical, professional, and personal goal. As caregivers it is our job to pay attention to even the smallest of details, once we have identified a problem we do what we can to quickly relieve the stressful situation for the family, friends, and other caregivers as well. After identifying the problem we then focus on the needs as well as the preferences of the individual, come up with a solution, Treat the problem and then we can final go back and re-evaluate the entire assessment. It isn’t until we personal find ourselves in a situation needing help that we wish we could have been better prepared for

Something that I feel strongly about in my career is to advocate and protect the patients I am caring for. The change I advocated for was at my recent work place is the overnight nurses, including myself had to take the 7 am blood sugars with our 5 & 6 o’clock medication pass and record that blood sugar for the morning nurse to then go and administer the insulin as ordered. This strategy is very dangerous and this is why I put in place a policy now starting blood sugars need to be taking within 30-60 minutes administrating insulin. The insulin on the MAR is due at seven thirty in the morning, along with breakfast. As a new nurse coming on the floor I understood the pathophysiology of diabetes and the medication action and how that in two hours a blood sugar can change dramatically. The policy we have on administering medication is we have one hour before and one hour after. Since I knew that taking a blood sugar two hours before the insulin is due I would try and wait to do all of them right at the end of my shift to pass on report a more accurate reading, which most of the 11-7 nurses do not do and will take the blood sugar as they move on with the med