eWinterbourne View was a hospital in Bristol that treated people with leaning difficulties and autism. Terry Bryan , a 35 year experienced nurse turned to the BBC Panorama programme after his complaints to the management and The CQC were ignored. An undercover reporter took a job there as a support worker, first he had training to show him how to reduce the chance of them getting violent and posing a risk to themselves. The message was all other options should be explored before resorting to holding someone down. During the reporters first days there he found that some of the staff ,as a first resort restrained the patients.
The High Burnout and Turnover Rate of Registered Nurses Registered Nurses are the backbone of any major medical facility. They are the medical personnel you have your first interaction with in a hospital. Nurses are trained to put the needs of others before themselves. They endure emotional stress, as well as, other stress factors usually involved with the healthcare profession. There is an ongoing shortage of nurses, which along with emotional stressors, is said to be the cause of burnout among nurses.
This in turn exposes not only patients, but also nurses to a significant amount of noise and alarms, ultimately leading to the clinical problem called alarm fatigue. As defined by the Joint Commission, alarm fatigue is known as the desensitization of medical staff as a result of sensory overload. This overload ultimately results in a delay of an alarm being answered, and sometimes someone completely missing the alarm altogether (The Joint Commission, 2015). Alarm fatigue has been recognized as a contributing
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.
Assignment 204 Task B Winterbourne View is one of the most known cases of failures to protect individuals from abuse, it was a hospital where alleged abuse was filmed by the BBC. The review was ordered after BBC Panorama filmed patients being physically abused, it was stated that the BBC had recordings of patients being pinned down, slapped and taunted. The Care Quality Commission report on Winterbourne View found owners Castlebeck Care had failed to protect residents living at the unit were protected from risk, this included the risks of unsafe practises by its own staff. It was said “There was a systemic failure to protect people or to investigate allegations of abuse”, also “The provider had failed in its legal duty to notify the Care Quality Commission of serious incidents including injuries to patients or occasions when they had gone missing” Inspectors also noted staff did not appear to understand the needs of the people in their care. The Care Quality Commission director of operations Amanda Sherlock explained that once the investigation had been followed, it was clear the abuse in Winterbourne View was far worse than they were warned.
ASSIGNMENT 204 - TASK B – RESEARCH AND ACCOUNT IDENTIFY TWO REPORTS ON SERIOUS FAILURES TO PROTECT INDIVIDUALS ON ABUSE. WRITE AN ACCOUNT THAT DESCRIBES THE UNSAFE PRACTICES IN THE REVIEWS. REPORT 1 Concerns at Winterbourne View Hospital first came to light after a charge nurse raised the issues with the hospital in October 2010 and his allegations were passed on to the local authority, South Gloucestershire council, in its capacity as lead safeguarding agency and then relayed to the CQC in December 2010 but nothing was done. In May 2011 the BBC released undercover footage about the appalling way vulnerable residents at Winterbourne View Hospital were being treated, once the footage was released it came into light that the owners of Winterbourne View, health regulators, local health services and the police had failed to act upon increasing warning signs. On the 18TH June 2011 the CQC published its findings following an inspection of services provided at Winterbourne View.
The article provides a vignette of the challenges and dilemmas that a new social worker faces while running a group therapy on an inpatient unit of a psychiatric hospital. This social worker became very frustrated when she realized there were many challenges she was facing. Some of these challenges were patients poorly attending this group therapy, the patients were unmotivated, and would wander in and out frequently. This vignette provides a scenario of the challenges that group practitioners face. The purpose of this article is to illustrate guidelines that could be helpful for practitioners when facing dilemmas and issues while developing a group therapy program.
Abuse: An undercover reporter recorded secret footage of patients being abused by carers. The employees of the hospital appear to slap the victims, pull their ears and hair, push them, kick
Even though it is unintentional it can lead to tragedy. Using different cases this paper will explain reasons, actions and consequences regarding this problem. New Jersey Nurses should work within certain rules and regulations, when they fail to do so they will face serious consequences which can change or ruin their future career. The name of the first case study is “Nurse’s Negligence- a Tragic Error”, which tells the story about 57 years old man who, while watching television, began to speak incoherently. His wife took him to the hospital, where he was
Three aspects of burnout are emotional exhaustion, negative, cynical attitudes and feelings about one’s clients and the tendency to evaluate oneself negatively with regards to one’s work with clients. Consequences of burnout can have serious consequences to staff, patients and the healthcare institutions involved. The studies conducted led to the development of the Maslach Burnnout Inventory