Charlotte Cowen Task B Research and Account Identify two reports on serious failures to protect individuals from abuse. Winterbourne View Hospital Abuse In june 2011, a serious incident occurred known as the winterbourne view hospital abuse. It was a private hospital in South Gloucestershire which was owned and operated by Castlebeck. It was all broadcasted on television in 2011 in a panorama investigation which expose the physical and psychological abuse which was suffered by people who has learning disabilities and challenging behaviour within the hospital. The local social services and the English national regulator, Care Quality Commission, had received various warnings but the mistreatment continued.
A review of the Winterbourne View panorama documentary When I saw on the documentary Winterbourne View hospital this morning, Winterbourne View hospital was a private residential hospital for adults with learning disabilities and autism accommodating approximately about 30 people. A senior nurse named Terry Bryan blew the whistle about the abuse happening in the hospital with vulnerable people. He reported that there was institutional abuse with CQC (Care Quality Commission) but they did not really believe him. Therefore, he resigned from his work and told BBC about the abuse happening on the winterbourne view hospital. This case was first exposed by BBC panorama programme, A BBC journalist named Joe Casey went there for the employment and he succeeded to get the employment as a support worker in the hospital even he does not have any experience and was trained only for one week.
There is no better source than the individual themselves and it is detrimental to their well being that they are given the support they need to communicate their own background, experiences, wishes and preferences. By overcoming any communication barriers you also provide a good foundation in the relationship. Outcome 3 Know how to address potential power imbalances in a shared lives arrangement 1. A sense of power imbalance can be easily created when sharing own home. When you summarize capabilities, likes or dislikes, financial standing, personality traits, there are many ways.
No matter what Tijuana’s job was at the hospital, she went into personal, confidential records and obtained damaging information. She then took that information and shared it with others. Complete violation of privacy. She had no right to not only snoop in his records but then to spread it around work. She should have been fired from both places of employment and should have had to pay for her ignorance.
Organizational Disconnect: The Real Cost of Workplace Bullying in Healthcare Suzanne Johnston Loyola University Abstract While workplace bullying in healthcare is being recognized worldwide, there still exists a code of silence in many organizations throughout the United States. Inaction by an employee who witnesses a co-worker being abused tends to perpetuate the underreporting of such a costly phenomenon. A bullying culture within an organization can be costly, not only for the victim, but also for the health and welfare of other employees and the delivery of patient care (Gaffney, DeMarco, Hofmeyer, Vessey & Budin, 2012). The costs of bullying are injurious to an organization’s
For example, nursing records showed pseudopatients writing as an aspect of pathological behavior. Hospitalization is counter-therapeutic and dehumanizing. The staff ignored patients’ requests. The absence of eye and verbal contact reflect avoidance and depersonalization. The sources of depersonalization emerge from attitudes of fear and distrust held by all of us toward the mentally ill and hierarchical structure of the psychiatric hospital.
This affects the client because she will not feel safe in a place that she calls home and will always feel paranoid because of the constant physical and verbal abuse which can make the client become depressed. This can also affect the client’s family because they will feel as if they won't be able to trust any other health care worker because of how badly the care worker treated the client which is not ok as mostly everyone except people that use private facilities for their healthcare rely on NHS and this will make people not want to get treated for anything as they don't trust the NHS and don't have enough money to use private facilities. Discrimination against religion in hospitals is also a discriminatory practice that takes place in the workplace. An example of this is in the Royal Devon and Exeter NHS trust Hospital a Christian nurse was directly discriminated against and taken of frontline duties after she
In fact, she does the opposite of curing them. She makes them feel shame, inferiority, reminds them of their problems, and denies the fact that they could leave the institution and go into the outside world. She does group therapy with the patients and instead of doing real therapy she lets all the patients attack each other verbally. Her “treatment methods” are far from treatment methods. Nurse Ratched makes the patients worse as time goes on.
Principles of safeguarding and protection in health and social care Section 4 – Task Four care workers have been sentenced for abusing elderly residents at a care home in Lancashire. The abuse took place from May 2010 to September 2011 at Hillcroft nursing home in Slyne-with-Hest near Lancaster. They were charged with ill-treatment and wilful neglect of a person with lack of capacity under the Mental Capacity Act 2005. Residents were mocked, bullied and tormented because they would have no memory of the abuse. The court was told one man had his foot stamped on deliberately and another was nearly tipped out of his wheelchair.
The Deanery an Essex care home was under investigation by BBC panorama which found residents being neglected and mistreated, An undercover reporter filmed one woman with dimentia who was mocked and slapped by staff, Also another resident with a terminal illness who needed the toilet and was ignored despite her cries for assistance, One man with a chronic illness was left lying in his own excrement. Peoples privacy and dignity and independance were not being met in this report, a man was left in his own excrement (this is abuse) And one woman was being mocked by staff and slapped (this is abuse) There is concerns about the quality of care planning, Unacceptable long waits for call bells to be answered and a lack of suitably skilled staff.