The lighting in the rooms needs to bright enough in order for staff and individuals to carry out any activities. If there is poor lighting the elderly may be liable to fall or trip due to deteriorating eyesight. The staff are also susceptible to falling in poor lighting due to them rushing around and not thinking what may be lying around. Care homes need to have a building with good ventilation. Without this the elderly could become very ill. Airborne diseases such as the common cold or cough or influenza could attack their immune systems causing illness.
The patient may trip or fall do to not being able to see clearly, causing injury. The care provider may give the wrong medication which can be very dangerous causing illness. The stairs can be a challenge to climb even for healthy individuals, this is even more difficult for the vulnerable people especially if there is not adequate support e.g. hand rail or a electric lift. The possible harm of not having adequate support can cause major harm for the patient as they may be more likely to fall and trip
But she was thinking to herself, “How can someone live like this, and how does this happen?” Hoarding, sometimes called compulsive hoarding disorder, is a mental health condition that can seriously affect the person’s safety, health, and family relationships. This newsletter will discuss hoarding, including characteristics, causes, symptoms, and related issues. Also, the role of the home health aide working in a hoarding situation will be covered. What is Hoarding? Hoarding is a condition in which the affected person collects too many items, or allows materials or waste to accumulate in the home.
Dementia is a syndrome which is caused by diseases of the brain and loss of brain tissue. There are several diseases which give rise to dementia, such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s. Causes can be generic, vascular and environment. People with Dementia lose their memory of day to day things but still remember things from their past. As the disease gradually gets worse individuals start to forget about their personal hygiene, personal wellbeing, how to cook or clean in their own home, they forget how to stay safe within their own environment.
Negligence is a failure to exercise the degree of care considered reasonable under the circumstances, resulting in an unintended injury to the patient or to another part, yahoo.com (2014). Negligence occurs in most of the areas, but more likely happens in elderly patients in health care setting for example, hospital unit, convalescent home, and boarding care facilities. Common example of negligence includes medication errors, refusal to provide adequate food, dehydration, poor skin integrity, and physical injuries. Usually a family member is the one who discovers and report the incidents because residents are too fearful, or are unable, to report incidents themselves. According to cecp.org (1999), there are four elements of negligence includes a duty to protect, failing to exercise a reasonable standard of care, proximate cause, and actual injury.
LO: understand potential hazards in health and social care P1- Explain potential hazards and the harm that may arise from each in a health or social care setting There are several hazard categories in a residential care home. This includes security systems, physical environment, working conditions and equipment. This hazard can affect both care workers and service users. Equipment One of the hazard categories in a residential care home is equipment. Equipment refers to all the types of equipment that are used in residential care home, which can harm the care workers and the service users.
Cracked and uneven floors, wet patches on the floor and improperly placed cables and other objects that can contribute to a person losing their balance causing harm to them including minimal bruises to scarring. A slip, trip or fall could occur at Common Lane Mental Health Unit by a patient or member of staff tripping over something that may have been left in the hallway. For example, a chair or a
There are some other factors Cause changes in individual condition with similar symptoms of dementia, like depression, confusional state due to an infection (UTI/chest infections), sensory changes due to age related degeneration, reduced metabolism cause poor appetite, Osteoporosis and fear of falling. Abilities of an individual with dementia may fluctuate because of the changes to physical environment (moving home, starting at a day centre) changes to a social environment (changes in carers, loss of family or friends and social isolation, Bereavement) changes to the emotional environment ( Cares become stressed, experience of abuse) Personal changes ( changes in treatment, changes in medication) Changes in physical condition ( bacteria or viral
The importance of documentation and the ethical principles that will guide any nurse’s practice will be reviewed. West's Encyclopedia of American Law defines negligence “as the failure to use reasonable care that a reasonably prudent person would exercise in like circumstances.” When health care professional duties fail to meet this standard, negligence is the proven outcome. Medication administration not followed by a nurse as ordered, that result the patient's illness worsening or causes death, negligence may be proven. Nurse’s must know and adhere to the standards of care, maintain competency, state board regulations, and seek out further education, failure to do so may result in a charge of negligence. Gross negligence can be defined as a conscious and voluntary disregard of the need to use reasonable care, which is likely to cause foreseeable grave injury or harm to persons, property, or both (West, 1998).
• Biological: including tuberculosis, hepatitis and other infectious diseases faced by healthcare workers, home care staff and other healthcare professionals. Step 2: Decide who may be harmed, and how Identifying who is at risk starts with your organisation's own full- and part-time employees. Employers must also assess risks faced by agency and contract staff visitors, clients and other members of the public on their premises. Employers must review work routines in all the different locations and situations where their staff are employed. For example: • The homecare supervisors must take due account of their client's personal safety in the home, and ensure safe working and lifting arrangements for their own home care staff.