Constitution and Importance of a Good Physical Environment for Care and Support at Home and in Hospitals
Part A – Write an essay of no more than 1500 words.
What constitutes a good physical environment for care and support and why is it so important? Illustrate your answer by analysing least two Block 4 care settings.
There are a number of different care settings, however I have decided to discuss and analyse Home and Hospital care, its environments and how the physical environments affect people giving and receiving care.
Healthcare is the prevention, treatment, and management of illness and the preservation of physical and mental well-being through the services offered by the medical health professions. Each type of care facility has its own advantages and disadvantages; I will now go through some of each for home and hospital settings. Being at home the patient is more likely to feel comfortable, at ease and secure, the caregivers (family members) may feel most relaxed about giving and providing for their loved ones at home, loved ones can spend as much as much time as they want with the patient; amongst all these benefits we also must consider the disadvantages of care being given at home, for example there may not be the correct facilities to provide adequate care at home, if there were an emergency at home it may be a little bit more difficult to handle, family caregivers may struggle without enough support. Many people do believe however that if the care needed is non medicational or the patient needs simple medication then home care should be offered for the advantages listed above, the patient would feel comfortable amongst their own therefore hoping to a speedy recovery.
We do also need to look at the hospitals advantages and disadvantages: having care in a hospital provides routine and structure that both the patients will need and quite possibly the families need also, specialized medical and emergency care are available immediately if needed, however there may be little privacy for the patients and their family may feel they are unable to be
What constitutes a good physical environment for care and support and why is it so important? Illustrate your answer by analysing least two Block 4 care settings.
There are a number of different care settings, however I have decided to discuss and analyse Home and Hospital care, its environments and how the physical environments affect people giving and receiving care.
Healthcare is the prevention, treatment, and management of illness and the preservation of physical and mental well-being through the services offered by the medical health professions. Each type of care facility has its own advantages and disadvantages; I will now go through some of each for home and hospital settings. Being at home the patient is more likely to feel comfortable, at ease and secure, the caregivers (family members) may feel most relaxed about giving and providing for their loved ones at home, loved ones can spend as much as much time as they want with the patient; amongst all these benefits we also must consider the disadvantages of care being given at home, for example there may not be the correct facilities to provide adequate care at home, if there were an emergency at home it may be a little bit more difficult to handle, family caregivers may struggle without enough support. Many people do believe however that if the care needed is non medicational or the patient needs simple medication then home care should be offered for the advantages listed above, the patient would feel comfortable amongst their own therefore hoping to a speedy recovery.
We do also need to look at the hospitals advantages and disadvantages: having care in a hospital provides routine and structure that both the patients will need and quite possibly the families need also, specialized medical and emergency care are available immediately if needed, however there may be little privacy for the patients and their family may feel they are unable to be