The Importance Of Life In The Nursing Home

As a registered nurse practicing in the state of California I am responsible for practicing within my states legal regulations and nursing scope of practice. My concern for the welfare of the sick and injured allows me to practice ethical provisions of nursing. These are required if I am to carry out competent and effective nursing care. Nursing encompasses the prevention of illness, the alleviation of suffering, and the protection, promotion, and restoration of health in the care of individuals. Therefore, as health care professionals we must be familiar with the different philosophical forces, ethical principles, theories and values that influence nursing. At the same time, we must be respectful to our patient’s

During my placement during at an aged care facility, it was an important process to ensure that nursing interventions were carried out to ensure a respectful behaviour of a resident’s dignity, culture, values beliefs and

This episode of care occurred in a community setting. Sara has a diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease. She live alone, has no children and is a diabetic. Sara does not speak English and her first language is Polish. Sara support worker developed a close relationship with Sara but said recently her dementia as gotten wrong and she sometimes does not remember who she is. Sara has cellulitis on her legs and was refusing to let the support worker change her dressing. She kept saying it was ok and she didn't want it to be changed. The student nurse and the district nurse tried reassuring Sara and explaining why it was importance to treat her leg but she just became more agitated and aggressive. The district nurse and support worker knew it was important

Giving myself time to read up on nursing experiences, attending more clinical practice labs, participating and watching these duties in the health care setting will allow me to develop a secure level of confidence the next time that this type of situation may occur. Staying in the room allowed me to experience the feeling of support while looking past social norms and how they are challenged. I met my personal values, and I believe that one should respect another person`s privacy. This understanding allowed me to be there to support the resident during her time of need. In the article `starting out` by Jane Schulz, a nursing student shares her experience of helping her colleague assist an elderly patient with daily care. Observing the compassion and care between nurse and patient from fundamental tasks, she took away a valued lesson of how our support and caring methods affect an individual. My relation to this story allowed me to reflect on the effects my care and supporting actions had on our patient.

Taking care of the individuals that are getting older takes many different needs. Most of these needs cannot be given from the help of a family. This causes the need of having to put your love one into a home and causing for the worry of how they will be treated. It is important for the family and also the soon to be client to feel at home in their new environment. This has been an issue with the care being provided for each individual, which has lead to the need of making sure individuals have their own health care plan.

At West View Nursing Home, the idea of person-centered care is drilled into each new staff member’s brain at their first interview and orientation. It is the principle that guides all of the work here, no matter if you are a janitor, social worker, nurse, dietician, etc. Some examples of the general principles associated with this type of intervention and care are that the needs of the client have priority and social services exist to benefit him or her, everyone has their own strengths and weaknesses, and not revoking people’s choice about their own behavior (Miller & Rollnick, 2013). No matter their health status or mental state, everyone is entitled to make their own decisions as much as possible, even if the social worker does not necessarily agree. The three main characteristics that a social worker demonstrated when utilizing the person-centered care theory are empathy, unconditional positive regard, and congruence/genuineness. He or she is expected to be objected and unbiased, come with experience to provide appropriate suggestions, and be able to accept that clients’ perspectives are true and best for them as a person (Walsh, 2014).

When on a placement in a care home, the elderly were treated without respect, they were shouted at by the staff and poor manual handling was used when moving the elderly residents. This was just one care home out of hundreds, not all care homes are like this and the clients will be treated with respect and dignity.

Like demonstrated in chapter four of the book, they lose all sense of independence and privacy, and are forced to get dressed, take their medicine or do activities when told to instead of being able to decide for themselves. With the idea of assisted living, Keren Wilson will allow her mother to “be Jesse again, a person living in a apartment instead of a patient in a bed.”(Gawande, 2014, p. 89). I feel it is important to treat those with serious infirmities, like physical or mental weakness, with respect and independence because many of them don’t have a say or voice on where they are placed. They are unable to live on their own so they are forced to be put in nursing homes, where they become sheltered, abandoned, and sadly sometimes forgotten. This is why showing them respect, dignity, and giving them some independence will go a long way.

Respect and dignity are closely intertwined, because generally one is affected by the other. Nurses should treat their patients with respect, no matter if the client has a learning disability, a physical ailment that reduces normal functions, or even if the client is disrespectful to the nurses. In the case from Alberta RN, a nurse was found to have failed to professionally communicate with a client in an appropriate manner. The client even discharged himself from the hospital because he felt he was being treated like a child (CARNA, 2015). This is unacceptable behaviour from a nurse because it was unprofessional and destroyed the patient’s dignity enough that he left the hospital in order to get away. This is a prime example of blatant disrespect to a client and how not to follow CNA’s practice standards. This same nurse committed other acts such as failing to chart a client’s refusal to take medication, additionally failing to notify the physician. She also administered medication to a client against the physician’s order to not proceed (CARNA, 2015). Both are examples of disrespecting her job. As stated by Sorenson (2013), professional knowledge, responsibility, and reflection are the antecedents of preserving dignity. It is obvious that the nurse used neither her knowledge nor took responsibility for the actions she made. She should have correctly performed the duties of her occupation. Instead, she was disrespectful and as a consequence her patients’ and her colleagues’ dignities were

The risk that a person turning 65 will need nursing home care is very likely. According to Fledstein, he informs to the reader that, as we age, it is likely that Long-Term Care (LTC) is needed (p. 566). Eventually, LTC is needed more after the age of 65. In addition, 19 percent will be in a nursing home for more than five years (p. 568). In a similar case, a patient who does not have family members to take care from, they are in need of LTC. According to June Schroeder, a certified financial planner (CFP) and a Registered Nurse (RN), she shares her story on Aging.com on how she had to spend down on medical bills and assets for her aunt to qualify for Medicaid. In other words, her aunt could not qualify for Medicaid because she had too much

The lack of attention to the aesthetics of the facility not only created a depressive feel, but also created sanitation issues. Caroline described the staff often placing soiled linens and used bed pans out in the hall for hours without being attended to. For Caroline, this exacerbated the painfulness of this already emotional transition for her when she first arrived. And even though Caroline’s room was cleaned by the staff prior to moving in, it still presented as dirty and with a foul order. The food at the nursing home was unappealing and often leads to the decrease in appetite of most of the residents. In addition, the fact that Caroline was the only female client posed a threat to her development of a support system and created an uncomfortable environment.

Mrs. Seaver was placed in the nursing home because that is what her children thought was best for her. Her children deemed her too old and incapable of deciding what was good for her so they took it upon themselves to make the decision. The loss of her independence began with her children and it only got worse from there. Mrs. Seaver did not get a say in how she wanted to live the remainder of her life. She gave up her house; she gave up all of her belongings and her old life only to be moved into a small room in a nursing home with a roommate. The emotional toll of making that big of a life change at that age is inconceivable. Mrs. Seaver describes that she gets a visitor every now and then and then they will return to the outside world.

Having to struggle through life with many difficult obstacles and problems. Not knowing how to get through the depressing and dark parts within life. This is what people go through on a daily basis, a lot happens during the course of a person's life. But how the actions taken on to becoming a proud and happy person is by the certain, specific choices and hard decisions that are made. This is shown in pieces of texts from the following poems. “Invictus” by William Ernest Henley and “Mother to Son” by Langston Hughes both bring the deep thoughts together that nobody's life is perfect, everyone has struggles within life but there is always a way to get past the difficult times.

What are some things most people live life without enjoying? Most of the time, it is the small things in life. Many people go through life, focusing on a big grand picture, but fail to enjoy the little moments in life that make them happy for just a second or will amuse them for awhile. In my opinion, if you live life worrying about what people think about you, or changing your lifestyle to fit in then you are not really enjoying life.

I couldn 't be happier. Elizabeth had early signs of dementia, I had been worried about her living alone for quite sometime because of her health among other reasons. Only, Elizabeth wanted to stay independent for as long as she had the strength to. I was pleased to hear the news regaurdless, because that meant I didn 't have to worry as much about her health as my family lived 40 minutes from her house.