Health promotion doesn’t necessarily mean treating the disease or searching the globe for a new cure, it can mean to try and be as healthy and as comfortable as one person can for their own self. One strategy to help improve the Thomas’ quality of life is to provide emotional support to all of the family members. Emotional support for Mrs. Thomas will help improve her mood, which in turn will help with her everyday life and functionality. She will have a lot of questions and concerns for not only herself, but her family while she is still living and after. Emotional support for Mr. Thomas may help with his depression, and make him feel better about caring for his wife during her illness.
We know our responsibilities and know how to carry them out. Our physicians and nurse manager are supportive in the patient care that we perform, however due to the shortage in staff I do not feel that the highest quality in care is being provided to our patients. Often we are very short staffed and the acuity of each assignment given to nurses is unrealistic to give each patient the attention and care they need. Our manager is aware of this ongoing problem and even protest of assignments are filled out daily by staff but not change has taken place as of yet. Infection rates are rising as well as
Values and Beliefs pape BSHS/ 322 Communication skills November, 5, 2011 Been a human service worker or any job related to this profession helping other have a lot to take into considerations. As a social service worker knowing and learning to control our feelings, thought, values and even beliefs with bad or good experience about life have to be limited when been in a session with a client. In this paper a few will be discusses such as; clinical gestalt, the systems contexts, values and beliefs add to clinical repose to clients acceptations. Coming from different background client have different expectations have different things that are important to their life or as a member. A person faith, conviction and faith even mental attitude
An example, would be a person whose job causes them a lot of stress, or an individual that does not have the means to eat healthy. For a person with a stressful job, looking for a new position with less stress is an option but if that is not possible, then incorporating stress relieving techniques such as walking or practicing yoga daily will help. For individuals that struggle with access to healthy food, they can check if there is assistance available in their area. There are two medications that are made specifically for people with IBS. One is for people with diarrhea predominant IBS and the other is for people that suffer from serious constipation.
Introduction to duty of care The term duty of care means having the duty or the responsibility of being the caretaker for another person. Someone who is too young, too old, too ill, or unfit mentally to care for himself/ herself and requires another person to assist. This could include looking after the person's hygiene (cleanliness), safety, meals, transportation, and other medical or physical needs. It affects my work role as I have a duty of care for all the service users I work with. Some individuals require us to take on more of a duty of care than others depending on their level of capacity.
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There are many areas, which affect the health equity of Mrs Smith, with support it leads to better health. Social support – Mrs Smith and her partner Mike need to engage and receive social support from other family members and the community (nursing, healthcare, social worker) Stress – both Mrs Smith and Mike will feel high anxiety and stress and may have a lack of control over living and work circumstances. This may lead to more mental and physical health. Work – Mike is caring for Mrs Smith and currently refusing home services, his employment opportunities may suffer as a consequence. As health carers we need to ensure Mike and Mrs Smith are educated in understanding the importance and the health care support that is available.
Time management is very important in all aspects of life. If you do not have positive in this area, you will fail to accomplish specific goals, and benchmarks. Again, you must hold yourself accountable to be disciplined enough to manage your time wisely. The consideration and respect you show others is a big aspect of this area. People typically demand respect before giving it.
For example, communicating with people with special needs requires a lot of patience and understanding of the condition they are in, which can be difficult for many people. Also, catering for special needs (like employing people who can use sign language; using Braille; wheelchair access ramps and installing disabled toilets.) can be expensive, which is sometimes a problem for certain health and social care settings that cannot afford this. In addition, there is also the problem of not everyone being able to understand certain special needs communications, which can make communication difficult. Finally, sometimes having advocates or carers can be a problem if the person addressing the special needs person talks to their advocate rather than them.
Some people’s physical and mental abilities deteriorate faster than others’. This does not mean that the elderly population does not deserve respect. I am not biased toward the elderly. When I take care of my patients, whether my patients are elderly, homeless, or alcoholic, I always see myself in them and think that I will be in that bed one day. I also believe that family members should support their elderly parents or grandparents because when they were young, the elderly were the ones who care for them; so, now it is their responsibility to care for the elderly.