Unsafe practices in Hillcroft nursing home in Slyne-with-Hest near Lancaster (May 2010 – September 2011): In report it states that nursing home staff neglected, emotionally and physically abused a persons with lack of capacity under The Mental Capacity Act 2000 because they would have no memory of the abuse and they couldn’t report it by themselves. There are few examples of how abuse happen: deliberately tipping resident out of wheelchair, striking, slapping, mocking and bullying resident, pelting residents with bean bags and balls at their heads “for entertainment as abusers felt bored”, laughing about residents. Failures to protect individuals: • Failure from staff team to provide care, treatment and support that meets people's needs.
Lack of effective delivery of patients and services: Due to a negative impact on the Porter services of the hospital, delivery of patients and services on time has been affected significantly. This may lead to a delay in any emergency situation and thus a bad reputation of the hospital. This bad reputation can cost a lot and can even affect their current expansion process of the hospital. Unsatisfied employees: Clearly, the staff at Greenlands General Hospital were unhappy with the current scenario. The staff included both Porter’s as well as nurses and doctors.
Discrimination within the healthcare system towards minorities has been notable for quite some time. In 2000, President Clinton signed a bill into law which helps to track the health issues and access problems by minorities (Modern Healthcare 4). Multiple studies have been conducted over several years in such a wide range of areas to streamline the disparities within the doctor’s offices, hospitals, or any other contact with medical personnel. These areas include: “…the delivery of health care services, the prevention of disease, the promotion of positive health behavior, appropriate approaches for reducing the barriers to accessing preventive health services (including specific disease related screening programs), and the best methods for providing state-of-the-art treatment to underserved populations” (Mason 1). As stated in a Health Services Research editorial, A key component common to each of these efforts seeks to target reducing disparities and promoting equity in health care, with a central focus on the systematic
The third article focuses on a case study in which an elderly woman was abused and no proper investigation was completed within a nursing home setting. Analysis and conclusion of the research will be provided at the end of the paper. Problem Identification Identifying elder abuse within a long term care setting can be difficult. Nursing home residents often have poor safety awareness and a high rate of falls and related injuries. (Lachs & Boyer, 2002) It is sometimes hard to determine if a fracture or bruise comes from an unpreventable incident in a confused elder or if it came from abuse or negligence.
Distrust in Health Care Over the years, I have gained more understanding of why people do not trust the United States Health Care system. Growing up as children we all dreaded going to the doctor because we knew it meant we were getting shots. But even when you get older, you still avoid going to the doctor due to the fact that you may not have health insurance, scared or maybe because you don’t have trust in your primary physician. Throughout this essay I will discuss the different factors that cause specialized populations to distrust the United States Health Care system, the importance of trust in the health care system and why it’s so difficult for specialized populations to trust the ones that are providing health care. There are various different factors that have caused specialized populations distrust in the United States health care system.
On one occasion a service user (S.U) was distressed so kept pulling the buzzer. I asked on a few occasions if she needed any help but refused to tell me what was wrong. A member of staff came and asked the S.U what was wrong in a calm and reassuring tone to show the S.U that she was there to help. The S.U told the member of staff that she was upset as during the night the nurse didn’t come to see her very often during the night and she couldn’t get in touch with her partner as he wouldn’t answer the phone. She then became very upset and began to cry.
Indicators: Going to the hospital a lot due to factures, burns and broken bones. The person may not want to be touched because they don’t trust you and are scared. They may also have unexplained bruising and marks on their skin. Case study on physical abuse: Mark is 54 years old, 10 years ago had a stroke which left him partially paralysed. He has carers came into his home three times a day, but his wife cares for him the rest of the time.
Throughout “Long Day’s Journey into Night” by Eugene O’Neill, the issue of the past is one that is brought up quite often, by the entire Tyrone family. Mary; the mother; resents that she has never been able to feel at home, while also battling her addiction to morphine because her husband was too stingy to pay for a real doctor. As well as the men of the family’s addiction to alcohol. The children hate their father for his cheap ways and for the way they were brought up. And lastly, Tyrone resents taking on a family, because it kept him from making his “big break” as an actor.
The main reason for the poor social adjustment of the mentally ill is pointed towards the attitude of the family members towards the mental illness and mentally ill. Not only the society, family also viewed the mental illness as an incurable fate and hence were put inside the bars and are stigmatized in every day situation. Many studies showed that the family members usually neglect the fact that they have a mentally sick at their home. Even the parents refuse to accept the mental difficulty of their children. Mental illness is a source of serious social problem, not just because of the number of people affected by it but also due to the extent to which social life is affected. It is estimated that out of the total, which counts to almost 28% of the population having a mental illness, only 8% will actively seek treatment
There are many people who become seriously ill and is so sick that they are about to die. Malik had promised the population to prevent this, but Malik could not heal people. He did not have the medicine needed to heal people. Malik meets a female foreign doctor who has no medicine to the sick, but Malik is being tested to the medical assistants because they are helpless, and people get sick everywhere. Malik becomes frustrated because he can’t help the sick in the village.