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Nurse’s care for several patients in a day and it is important to understand the patient as a whole person to treat them effectively. The purpose of this assignment is to explore a patient’s disease to understand the nursing judgments and interventions involved, the medications for this diagnosis, and to understand the disease. The patient described in this paper will be referred to as Jonathan to ensure patient confidentiality.

Before going into further details, I first asked Ms. Katie to tell me about herself. She started sharing her experience with working in the child welfare for almost 16 years and how she she has enjoyed the experience. The field helped her gain more knowledge than what she had expected. In the past, she has done a little bit of In-home and foster care, which were not her preferences, but benefited her gain experiences. Ms. Katie’s job interest is working with high conflict cases, such as substance abuse, neglect, and child fatality, which she is currently doing at her job. What she does is when all cases, such as abuse, of children under the age of 18 are reported to her unit, she treats them as a 24 hour or immediately case, where the next step is to meet or be in contact with the families and different people for data collection. After this stage, she closes the case or send them to the in-home unit, which addresses any concern that the families may have as well as help them with available resources. Ms. Katie has had a positive

My field placement will be at Child protective services in El Paso TX. The department of child Protective Services withholds a wide range of services and responsibilities that include, investigating reports of abuse and neglect of children, provide services to children and families in their homes, providing services to help youth in foster care successfully transition to adulthood and helping children find adoption. There are many subdivisions within the department itself which offers different amenities during an open case with CPS, although these services solely justify the department, there is a unit known as Family Based Services or also FBSS which focuses on resources that will strengthen the family’s privation in order to ensure child safety and wellbeing. The Department predominantly benefits from task groups rather than treatment groups, because the department is on deadlines with each individual case, a treatment group would not benefit for the departments ultimate value which is Family Reunification. If the department is involved with a family for too long this may cause emotional distress on the children as well as the family. Every year in the United States, more than one out of every hundred children are victims of substantiated child abuse and neglect. For instance, in 2006, 3.6 million cases of child maltreatment were investigated, which is a rate of 47.8 per 1,000 children. In that year, nearly 1 million maltreatment claims were substantiated

My Field Supervisor updated me about a report she received from a foster parent about child on child sexual interaction. Immediately a feeling of disgust came over me. As my mind started to process what she said, I began to wonder what have the children been exposed. Upon further investigation my supervisor told me that one of the foster children disclosed to the foster parent that they had engaged in sexual activity with her step-father. This made me feel sad for the foster child, because I have observed her in past visit and she is very temperamental. Learning about sexual abuse in children, I now understand the behaviors she displays. This was the first time she disclosed any type of sexual abuse. Hearing about this foster family made me angry, because the child is so young and innocent and it makes me mad that someone would take of advantage of her in this way. This makes me think about how I will react if a client discloses to me the field.

Alysha told me she walked out of shelter care because she was running away from her problems. She articulated being gone for almost a year. Alysha would not disclose who she was staying with and who assisted her this whole time. She reported no exploitation or being a victim of sexual assault. Alysha told me she is not afraid of being home, but whould not choose a number to articulate her safety. She paused and began to laugh, stating you know I’m not telling you anything. Alysha told me she doesn’t go to school and admitted to being friends with gang members. Alysha would not articulate a name of a crew and denied commining any criminal acts while she was away from

Interview paper with a Counselor (Rebecca Alexander), and a Social Worker (Mina McVeigh). This interview is for Mrs. Scott’s online class.

To begin, the counselor described her client and the ethical dilemma that took place. CMB was seeing her client, a 36-year-old white woman, for one and a half years. The client’s reason for attending counseling was to work through family issues, particularly, managing the effects of growing up with an alcoholic father. One day, the client asked CMB if she would take on her sister as a client. Initially, the counselor was hesitant, explaining that she does not normally like to take on new clients who have a personal relationship with her current clients. However, the client pushed, and explained that her sister was going through a very specific situation, unrelated to her own therapy, that would only require short term counseling. Further, the client said that is will not interfere with her counseling experience. So, CMB decided to take on her current client’s sister as a new client.

Barbie Harris is a 50 year old female who came into our shelter this morning. In our initial intake and interview this writer can see that Barbie has brought her only belongs: some clothes, blankets, hygiene products, and her prescriptions. Barbie states that most nights she tries to stay at one of her 3 close friends house, however they have families so she does not stay long (Summers, 2012, p. 245). Other than those nights Barbie states she travels from shelter to shelter, at times sleeping on the cold hard ground. In discussing Barbie’s employment history this writer learns she has been unable to work due to issues with her mental health. Up until coming to the shelter today Barbie has been picking up bottles on Calgary streets to pay for

Today was my first day at the Port Human Services Facility Base Crisis (FBC) Unit in Greenville N.C. Today I was shadowing Trudy Sheppard, who is a master’s level social worker who is employed by Port Human Services (FBC) Unit. Trudy and I discussed patient rights, patient obligations, and FBC Unit’s policy and procedures. We also met with the unit’s supervisor and discussed what I will be doing while on the FBC Unit. I was informed that I would be involved in the patient admittance process. I was informed that I would also be conducting patient interviews, assessments, assisting with patient treatment plans, aftercare plans, and substance abuse counseling as well. Also, I will be transporting clients with the company vehicle as well as the

Shannon met with several of Janet’s clients. After meeting with clients, she discovered a pattern in which the clients would report that they have not seen Janet in 2 to 3 months. However, the case files reflected face-to-face contact with all of her clients, despite what her clients stated. When Shannon investigated further, she found that the client notes were all at the same day and time, which is unlikely. Further, several of Janet’s clients needed referrals for counseling, but Janet never

Battered women and abused children become dependent on these residential setting because they see it as a place of comfort. They may encounter issues but due to their situation they try to contend and manage the situation. Four care issues applicable to them are:

What I understand of case management is that it helps Social Workers in helping their clients, meaning social workers take actions to manage the various aspects of cases they are working on. Case management is also a shared process of assessment, planning, facilitation and advocacy for decisions and services to meet an individual’s need through communication and available resources. Case management examines the person’s physical, emotional, environmental state, and promotes quality and cost-effective outcomes. In addition, in Case management the worker helps to empower the clients to become self-sufficient. Moreover, Case management is structure into six principles

Miesha is a 26-year-old African American female. She grew up in a single parent household in Collins, MS with her younger brother. Miesha’s mother worked two jobs and slept most of the time when she was at home. Miesha does know her biological father, however, he has been in and out of her life. Until the age of eighteen, Miesha regularly attended Our Kingdom Come Baptist Church, while living with her mother. Miesha is a high school graduate and is currently unemployed. She receives Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), Medicaid, Section 8 and Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits. Miesha has two children, a son age 10 and a daughter age 5 by two different men. Miesha is not married; she is currently cohabitating with a man she has been dating for the past year. Miesha’s live in boy-friend sells drugs out of her home. Miesha states that he is mentally, verbally and physically abusive to her and has recently started being physically abusive towards her children.

Throughout my 13-year career in the Human Services field, spending the majority of that time working with adolescent girls in residential treatment facilities, I am very much aware of the risks that exist with regard to sexual relationships between professionals and clients. In that time, it came to my attention that at least three employees at programs where I was employed had sexual relationships with clients. In addition to the ethical issues that arose from these situations, all of the clients were under 18 years of age so the actions of these employees had legal ramifications. Many of our clients had been victims of sexual abuse prior to admission into our program. I always viewed our programs as safe places where clients would be treated with respect and could develop strong therapeutic relationships with both their counselors and program staff members. Unfortunately, the actions of a few had a detrimental effect on our programs and also the lives of our clients. Having dealt with these issues and focusing on ethical decision-making throughout my education and professional career, the ethical dilemma of

The interview took place in a small room. There were four members from the Interviewing and Counselling class that were present; myself the counsellor, the client and the two others were technical support. The client gave permission for the other two members to be present because they helped to tape and time of the session. The setting was not very ideal, since there were two additional members and the room was available for a limited time. Nevertheless, it worked because it was a familiar setting where we practice our counselling most of the time. The setting encouraged comfort and disclosure because the door of the room was closed and the client and I trusted the other members. At the