Care Center Reflection

The best way to learn new things is to make mistakes and learn from your mistakes and the best way to understand others is to put your legs in their shoes. Cliff

I learned that anything is possible long as you put mind to it. I also learned that I

The aim of this assignment is to write a reflective commentary on scenario 2 (Mrs Green) and how it has assisted me in meeting the module learning outcomes and build up my clinical skill such as Privacy and Dignity, Personal Hygiene, Elimination, Fluid Balance. Catheter Care, Pressure Area Care, Moving and Handling, Observation and Rapid Assessment.

My responsibility as a care assistant is to deliver a very high standard service to individuals. This includes support for everyday living e.g. bathing, dressing, personal hygiene and general domestic tasks. Before performing any activities for the day, I go through my clients care plan and get all the information about the clients and any changes that may have occurred.

The purpose of this essay is to reflect on my personal role in the inter-professional team and the delivery of healthcare that I have encountered during my duty as a health care assistant in one of the hospitals here in England. In accordance with the NMC (2002) Code of professional conduct, confidentiality shall be maintained and all names have been changed to protect identity. The purpose of reflection as stated by John's (1995) is to promote desirable practice through the practitioner's understanding and learning about his/her lived experiences. I have decided to reflect upon an incident with the nurse in charge in one of my shifts and in order to structure my reflection I

The most important lesson learned from this class was to never give up. I took that class

I learned there will always be a good outcome of a bad problem. In this article they had a real problem. There college closed.

Throughout this course I have really learned a lot. Many of the things that were brought up in lecture and homework were key points to my success. First, an important take away that I have is that Medicare and Medicaid do not cover everything. Long term care is expensive. I learned that this is an on going issue, and something that Obamacare tried to help, but did not succeed with 100%. Also, I learned that there are several issues that come up within ethics. For instance, when dealing with the autonomy of a patient, when do you decide the patient cannot make decisions for themselves? And who decides? The loved ones who are emotionally attached? A takeaway from this is that there are certain rules and regulations that held to shape who gets to decide, but there are still grey areas. A final takeaway that I had was that even though the health care system is changing that brings both opportunities and set backs. Nothing will be right on the first try, and it will take time to figure out. For instance, long term care is not discussed enough. An opportunity was provided through Obamacare, but the setback is many baby boomers are unaware that the Affordable Care Act will not cover their long term care needs post retirement.

Physical health and behavioral health care are typically delivered in separate settings by different providers, often with little collaboration and coordination. This fragmented health care delivery system leads to care deficiencies, specifically for individuals with mental and physical health co-morbidities (Enthoven, 2009). Individuals with mental and substance abuse disorders may die decades earlier than the average person — often from untreated and preventable chronic diseases (Substance Abuse and Mental Health Administration [SAMSHA], 2017). Evidence indicates that the health care system is improving care delivery for members with co-morbidities through the integration of physical and behavioral health care (Enthoven, 2009).

On October 31st I visited Queen's Park Care Centre for my shadow day. Queen's Park is a residential care facility operated by Fraser Health which means the centre is publicly funded. The patients age range from 51-102 years old. It is rare to see anyone 60 years or younger at the care centre as majority of the patients are 65+. Many patients at Queen's Park have knee/hip replacements due to a fall. Occasionally, they do have amputees and stroke patients.

I learned that our thinking can make bad decisions. Our thoughts can change with comparing things. We can say no to one thing, but if it is compared to something else that can change our mind. The comparison can make things look different in our mind to make us make a different decision. The information that I learned is important because it helps you to look at things differently now. Sometimes it is best to stick with your first choice or decision and can cause an irrational decision.

Working in organisation with guardians and families Information ought to be straightforwardly imparted to relatives about youngsters' learning and advancement

On September 28, when we went to Tripler Army Medical Center, I was placed in the Cardiac Ward. At that time, I was able to learn so many diagnosis dealing with the patients. The nurse had briefly explained what was going on with each individual patient and the type of treatments they are doing to help. She had also neatly clarified each medication she was giving them and told me exactly what it was used for. I was able to get an experience of hands on by taking a patient’s temperature. I had shadowed as she did so many things to make the patient feel comfortable and did everything to the best of her ability to make them happy. She had taught me how to record every piece of information about the patients on the computer by showing me what

If you learn nothing else in life, please: do one thing and take care to remember that. In my expansive, albeit short, time of living, I have come to realize that few words amount to more than those four.

As Daniel J. Boorstin said, “Education is learning what you didn 't even know you didn 't know.”