(Step 1.1) A brief description of each service user and their specific behaviour.
The two very different service users that I observed are one female and one male with very different medical problems that needed to be handled with care, compassion and understanding.
Jane is a 19 year old female who was bullied in secondary school and college which left her with servery low self-esteem causing her to begin not eating as much and slowly lose weight. In the past year has worsened and is not medically known to have anorexia she is underweight and malnutritioned.
She regularly attended the doctor’s surgery to be weighed and seems to want to get better but will not accept the help of therapy. A week ago she was taken to hospital by a member of staff at the care home because she was unwell and dizzy the choice was made that due to her weight she would be kept in at the st Richards’s hospital for a few days.
When she was just a baby a few months old her father walked out and left Jane and her mother which then led to her mother finding a new partner who turned out to abuse her. Abused as a young child by her mother’s partner she was
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He suffers from the medical conditions diabetes and dementia. David is a non-smoker. In previous years in his fifty’s he was overweight and had very bad eating habits however in his seventies finally he lost the weight and now leads a healthy lifestyle as much as possible. In the ten years David has slowly developed severe dementia and so now his dementia condition is severe he relies heavily on his wife as he is often confused, forgetful and struggles to understand things when people are talking to him which puts a massive strain on his wife who has become his career and wishes for time to herself however she would never want to leave David at home by himself due to fears he would forget things and put himself or others lives in
Mrs Gale is a 70 year old widow and retired unskilled worker. The patient lives alone and relies on her son to provide basic care, medication and meals. Mrs Gale has a history of weight fluctuation owing to lifestyle but is currently at risk of malnutrition due to Parkinson’s disease. Mrs Gale shows signs of early dementia and suffers from poor mobility and pain caused by arthritis. Mrs Gale also has mild depression triggered by loss and has become socially isolated. All names have been changed as per the Nursing and Midwifery Council confidentiality guidelines (2008).
P3,Whatever job you want you need skills and qualities for it, this helps you with your job without this it would make it hard to know what you're doing and hard to adapt to the job. Nursery teachers look after young children from 3 years old to 5 years old.
A. There are many potential barriers to communication such as language barriers, it can be hard to communicate with someone who does not understand your language or vice versa. Also cultural differences may be a problem as different communication aids such as touching, eye contact, or tone, which may be acceptable in one culture may not be
Disability- many people suffer from discrimination when they have a disability. This is because they are different from others and can not physically do the things others can. This leaves them left out, not been able to socialize and feeling upset. For example if there was a man in a wheel chair in an office with his work colleges and everyone ignored him because he was different this would be discrimination.
Your GP can assess whether you have incontinence, decide which type of incontinence you have, give general advice on controlling symptoms of incontinence, provide information on pelvic floor exercises and bladder retraining, and give treatment for incontinence with prescribed medicines. If lifestyle changes and treatments don't solve the problem, your GP can refer you to a continence adviser or specialist.
and they should be used when doing personal care, handling waste, a change of activity to protect the carer and the individual.
Unit 16 Understand Safeguarding of Children & Young People (for those working in the adult sector) and Unit 14 Safeguarding and Protection of Vulnerable Adults Assignment
Over the year both positive and negative influences have influenced my learning. The skill I have developed for learning is my aspiration is to become a midwife, this influences my learning in the way that it gives me the hunger to learn new things and improve my knowledge and grades. By improving my knowledge I will be able to go onto the next stage of my development. I believe that if I did not have such a desire to be a midwife, it would affect my learning by creating a mental blockage which would stop my ability to take things in and learn as I would become lazy and not interested from the lack of direction in my life. As soon as I realised what I wanted to do as a career, it really highlighted my priorities and I found that I have
Different people look at health in different ways. It can depend on their culture, environment, religion or age group. In order to have a clear understanding about how the people look at health, I have conducted a survey from a random sample of people who belongs to the above groups (e.g. people of different ages have been chosen).
Individuals that wear glasses should ensure that there prescription is correct and there glasses are clean and free from any marks, care providers can
Health Promotion This is the process of allowing people to have more control over their health as this will help improve their health and well-being. It focuses on individual behaviour towards a wide range of social and interventions. Health promotion is how health is shown for example to challenge obesity change 4 life is used so people can have a guidance on how to make their lifestyle healthier. It also shows that health promotion is aimed at individuals whose health is at risk from any diseases from lifestyle factors, which lets individuals take control over their health. By being able to have control over their health it shows individuals what may have happened if nothing was done of it
When an individual is referred to as having a deficiency, it means that there is the absence of a particular nutrient in the body. This could be due to the lack of that nutrient being provided though the diet or could be due to a
As people get older they lose independence, they become less mobile and aren’t able to do everything for themselves any more. It is important to ensure that they keep as active as they can to ensure they keep their independence for longer.
D1) Make recommendations in relation to the identified hazards to minimise the risks to the service user.
Honesty is something I value in another person, and I have struggled with service users who haven’t been honest about something. I have tried hard to understand the reasons why someone would not be honest with me. Usually after I have spoken to another member of staff, and heard their input and theories I can begin to see why and move on from the incident.