Case Study: Home Health Scenarios

1. Describe a situation/interaction during today’s clinical day that “stands out” in your mind. Relate a reason the event “stood out” (Personal thoughts, feelings, insights, and actions within the context of this situation) (3 points)

Our last week at Prairie Winds was very emotional and sad. I loved having the dessert party and seeing all the residents come and eat a ton of food. I liked seeing all the happy faces and I know I will truly miss all the residents at Prairie Winds. I was sad that John was unable to attend the party but we were able to save him two plates of food for later. I was very pleased when several residents came up to me and commented how good my cake tasted. Before arriving at Prairie Winds, I was at a home health
The intervention that I am perposing would involve having the nurses go door to door and preform a short home visit for each resident once a month. Since Prairie winds already has two nurses on staff they could divide the workload between each other and every month check in on the patients. I think this would be beneficial because it would make the residents feel important and they truly are important. One barrier to this intervention is that this intervention may add a tremendous amount of work for the nurses who are already busy with their everyday workload and they may be unwilling to participate in the intervention. If that is the case Prairie Winds could hire a third nurses who works with the residents and every week the third nurse can do home visits for a certain amount of residents to ensure that each month every resident gets a home visit at least once. Though if Praire Winds was to hire another nurse that would be an additional coat that they would have to budget. I think most of the residents would be willing to have once a month home visits and would enjoy participating in the intervention. In a study conducted by researchers Renata Santos, and her collegues it was found that “the family and the caregivers of the elderly person need greater support from the healthcare team for the achievement of the agreed care procedures and the home visit is a necessary tool in the Family Health Strategy” (santos et al, 2013). Home visits are not only helpful for the patient or in our cause the residents of Prairie Winds but it can also be very helpful for the family members of residents. Nurses can provide the family members with peace and comfort knowing their loves ones are in the best of care and that people