Quality Care Relationships Essay

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TMA 01 Establishing and maintaining good quality care relationships can be both rewarding and challenging for all involved. - What are some of the difficulties that may face those providing and receiving care and how might these be overcome? From my own knowledge and understanding, after listening to set case studies on the K101 DVD showing diverse situations with regards to the difficulties faced when providing and receiving care, I have found that there are two main types of carers that are being focused on. The unpaid carer, that willingly cares on for a friend or relative and the paid carer, somebody that is employed to provide care on behalf of either a person, council or care home/company. From my own knowledge and understanding…show more content…
This includes administering medication, undertaking venepuncture, recording ECG’s, siting intravenous cannulea, removing venflons, leading counselling sessions, making decisions about wound dressings and when patients will be seen in A&E departments’. (Johnson/De Souza, 2008, p.152) The quote above taken from ‘understanding health and social care – second edition’ would all be resolved if the correct training were to be given, whether that was to be in-house or out-house, and for correct policy and procedure guidelines to be followed. From my own knowledge and understanding, if all carers, whether that be paid, or unpaid, were to be given set boundaries to follow, and were given the correct training for the specific role in which they play, it would make the job role a lot easier, and therefore less room for any mistakes to be made. In conclusion, I feel that I have talked in depth regarding the difficulties in which those may face when providing and receiving care, and I have also explained in reasons as to how the difficulties may be

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