responsibilities are to provide care to residents‚ preserving their privacy and dignity‚ also to promote the residents independence and to make sure they maintain their freedom of choice. The expectations of my work role are to provide the resident with their personal needs as instructed in their individual care plans. I am expected to follow the home’s codes of practice and conduct and the CSSIW’s care standards. My work role includes promoting the need to safeguard each resident and promote their rights‚ interests
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End-of-life care is not an obvious focus of the nursing home industry. With more residents being cared for in these facilities rather than transferring to the hospital or to a hospice‚ end-of-life care has become more common in the nursing home environment. There is a need to bring more clarity to end-of-life decisions for the residents and those with decision making rights. Lachman (2010) states that “family members often misconstrue do not resuscitate (DNR) as giving permission to terminate an
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Quiet room for punishment I read an article about the abuse of residents in care home. These older people were beaten‚ locked up‚ dragged through the floor and on the seven people that have cared for them. This article fright raised up in me and I was not able to believe in what I read. Care assistant residents treated worse than animals. Shut them in the so-called "quiet room" for punishment if they behaved in relation to aggressive care assistance or were not tolerable. Residence times we spend
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victims‚ as well as Respiratory‚ Hospice and Respite care. Not all of the residents of this home suffer from any of these diseases‚ or require special care‚ but care is available to these particular patients should it be applicable. The first question that I asked Nurse Egan was what she thought was the best part about working for Lakeview. She told me that one of the better things about working here is that many of the residents of this home are from or have family living in the Lincoln Park Area
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hidden cameras revealed certain residents being roughly handled and taunted. Call bells were being left unanswered for unacceptable amounts of time‚ even being pulled out on one occasion. At one time also‚ a lady was even slapped. Staff were also asked about the quality of care they believed was being given in the home. Most staff said they were happy with the care being given however they did state that they were usually short staffed and because of this residents had to wait an unacceptable length
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duties as a care assistant include assisting residents that require assistance with personal care‚ which can include bathing‚ washing and dressing‚ assistance with going to the toilet‚ help with incontinence‚ weather this could be change of incontinence pads or just make sure that they are there for when they need them. Assisting with residents mobility. Assisting residents that may require help with eating there meals. Providing and encouraging residents to be included with activities‚ monitoring
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Winterbourne View care home which cares for people with learning difficulties and autism. Four people were arrested from there in 2011 after secret filming by BBC’s Panorama showed a pattern of serious abuse. Instead of trying to get on with the residents some of the care staff were seen pinning them down with chairs and kicking them until they apologized for whatever the staff thought they should be sorry for. It didn’t matter whether they had done anything wrong or not they were repeatedly
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setting Relating to the physical environment; If you were in a care setting e.g. Residential home‚ and the ventilation stopped working‚ or was not working as it should do. For example if some of the residents had an illness that could be passed on through air‚ then the probability is that all the residents and also staff would end up with the illness this is an acquired infection. Equipment; If you were in a care home for elderly people and they couldn’t use their legs or get up from sitting down
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Resident physicians are usually the first to see patients in most teaching institutions‚ and should protect themselves against infectious agents. Their knowledge of infectious agents and disease process is critical. Knowledge of EVD is not only important to residents‚ but to the general public as a whole. Although the 2014 West African Ebola epidemic was prevalent in the news‚ only 6.7% of the residents identified all of the early symptoms of EVD. Residents exhibited poor knowledge of good hygiene
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remembering the positive interactions between them and their resident advisor (RA) their freshman year of college. An excellent resident advisor has a huge impact on a student’s enjoyment of living in the dorms. I hope to allow everyone to be able to have a positive first year experience in college‚ and especially at Western. I hope to become an RA to ensure that everyone has a positive‚ valuable‚ safe time while at college. Being a Resident Advisor for me is important and interesting because I know
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