Social Care Issues

Sorry to know you had to experience the illness of a loved with whom you have shared your life with for such a long time. Hopefully you will be strengthen by the joy and good times you shared.

The term burnout, according to Catalano, is a continuing depletion of energy and strength combined with a loss of motivation and commitment after prolonged exposure to high occupational stress (2015). When a unit or facility is understaffed, not only do the nursing staff get burnt out, the patients also don’t receive the quality of care they deserve. Due to the increase in workload, nursing staff are more prone to making mistakes and medical errors and sometime times do not fellow facility policies. The nurse-patient ratio aspect sometimes gets overlooked at and that could lead to possible medication errors, lack of communication, falls, neglect, abuse and/or death may occur. Sometimes, it become so overwhelming people turn to leave the workforce all together. When nurses and CNA workload increase, they become frustrated and unhappy, and the desire to leave

is recognising that we are "one" even though we are not the "same". The act of inclusion

The American Association of Critical-Care Nurses, state that there are several factors that lead to successful, healthy work environments. “The ingredients for success — skilled communication, true collaboration, effective decision making, appropriate staffing, meaningful recognition and authentic leadership” (American Association of Critical-Care Nurses, 2016, para. 4). However, I have to disagree to the idea that the nurses’ work environments are totally at blame. What are the main causes of unhealthy work environments? There are several elements that lead to unhealthy work environments such as job stressors, different work environment perceptions, and unique employee characteristics.

I learned that in the beginning the Catholic Church provided human services. They supplied services for the poor, orphans, the elderly, and people with disabilities. People with deviant behaviors would be put into asylums.

In the ever changing world of healthcare, healthcare organizations in order to be the most efficient in their delivery of healthcare, streamline their organizational structure to stay competitive, while providing the best patient care possible. This process can place increasingly undue stress onto its staff resulting in nurses having to do more with less available resources which ultimately increases their workload, has them working longer hours due to staff shortage, which contributes to an increase in the nurse burnout rates. This eventually filters down to the patient’s level of care and means less time spent on each

Personalisation is when the public services and social care in an entirely different way. They do this by starting with the person rather than the service; it will require the transformation of adult Social Care. There is going to be new legislation brought in 2013 for mental health issues based on autonomy, this is respecting the individual Capacity to decide and act on his own and his rights and to subject to restraint by others. Justice, this is to the law is equal; therefore if a person with learning disabilities or mental health disorder should retain the same rights and entitlement as others. Benefits, this is a way of acting in the individual best interest and finally least harm this is when treatment and care must be provided in

At the end of second years, she left Singapore and went to Europe for holiday before returning back to Melbourne in July 2015.

Analyse your own value base and describe its relationship to social care values and the goals of your agency. Values are our views and beliefs about what we feel is important to us, useful and are of worth, we hold our values in high regard. http://www.oxforddictionaries.com, (2016) Like all people in society I have learned my values through primary socialisation, which begins at childhood, it is based on family and it’s where we learn our cultures, language, values and expectations for socially accepted behaviours. We can follow on our parent’s values and turn them into our own or we can hold our own personal values throughout life. The next part of the socialisation process which can have an influence on an individual and has had an influence

Have you ever sat and thought about how nurses can give good ethical quality of care when they seem to always be understaffed and overcrowded? In this Research paper, I will look at what the effects of understaffing is on nurses and patients. Per the CUPE website their research show that one in ten patients in Canada acquire a nosocomial infection during their visits to the hospital. This seems to be a very alarming rate. Their research has also come to show that thirty percent of these infections are preventable, and that understaffing is one of the major attributors to this growing problem.

Principles for implementing duty of care in health, social care or children’s and young people’s settings

Social justice refers to providing unbiased/impartial care and social supports for the most disadvantaged members of society (Stanhope and Lancaster, p 721). Patients who receive nursing interventions from short staffed facility is also under vulnerable population. The podiatric surgery centers I work started practicing more patients than before so that the medical manager hired more per diem nurses and anesthesiologist. However it could not help when we had two nurses to have sick days leave for four to six weeks. One day we had only one post op nurse with three patients out of OR, which delayed proper post op care for the other two patients. One nurse and I had to jump from pre op to post op and vice versa. All the patients have rights

There are numerous elements that contribute to stress in the healthcare setting. Nurses’ days are full of physical, mental and emotional demands. There are societal demands and workplace demands created by the shortage. These stressors can become increasingly overwhelming and if there is no stress relief, job performance can and will be hindered. When fatigue and stress combine there is potential for “performance decrements”. This can include diminished capacity to manage a specific level of workload resulting in errors in the delivery of nursing care. This can produce damaging effects on the safety and advantageous outcomes for both the nurses and patients. (Reese, 2011). Therefore, finding a balance between lowering stress levels of

The reason that I chose this article is because it directly affects my life. My wife, who works in an Emergency 911 Call Center, is currently experiencing issues that were discussed in the article. In the article, it states that if an employee fails to maintain good health due to increased demand at work and work stress they will eventually become physically and emotionally worn out (Zhong et al., 2009). With the employee becoming worn out their job satisfaction will suffer and it will adversely affect the organization (Zhong et al., 2009). The main goal of modern organizational management is to increase the employee’s motivation and their capabilities so that it maximizes job satisfaction and their performance in the organization (Pfeffer,

There is currently a critical global shortage of nurses and it is projected to grow logistically in the prospective years. The reasons for the nurse shortage is multifactorial but one of the more prominent reasons is that nurses are at an increased risk for work related stress particularly in specialty areas such as mental health nursing. Psychiatric nurses are frequent victims of burn out and workplace violence because of the nature of patients they serve, the demands of the institution, and the shortage of trained staff. According to Qi et al. (2014), “Nurses working in mental health hospitals have been found to suffer from higher levels of work-related stress, as they are frequently exposed to violent behavior by mental health patients