STUDENT NAME: ___Hai Lin_____ Psychosocial Aspects of Patient Care – Fall 2016 Take-Home, Final Examination - 25 points Dec. 5-Dec.11, 2016 (Deliver electronic copy via Dropbox on Sakai, Word format by Sunday Dec. 11 at midnight) Please note: Answers should be concise but complete. For case-based questions: make sure your answer is specific to the scenario. Spelling, grammar, and sentence structure count toward your grade. Good luck! 1. Self-reflection and self-awareness are integral components that impact both our personal and professional growth and development. Identify 2 of your own personal values and beliefs in regards to health, illness and/or disability and explain how they have changed/evolved over time. (5 pts total) a) One belief that has changed over time throughout this course was my bias on individuals with disabilities. Initially, I believed that being healthy and disabled were mutually exclusive from one another. I fail to recognize that being healthy wasn’t strictly being physically well but also can be emotionally, spiritually, socially well. The guest speakers …show more content…
Initially, my viewpoint was that the care an individual receives from their caregiver is linear to a positive health outcome. As a result, if the individual demonstrated a poor health outcome then the caregiver isn’t doing enough for the person. What I failed to realize is that the person providing the care may also have external factors influencing the delivery of care. A caregiver’s health can go from helpful to a state of mental and physical exhaustion. As a healthcare practitioner we can succumb to this as well and it has made me realize that if we want to provide the utmost care to our patients we should also be in a good state of health for optimal health delivery. It is important to recognize when ‘caregiver burnout” manifests so we can address it before it influences healthcare
This essay has served to give a brief understanding of the theories and practices of the medical and social models of disabilities, and how they affect people with disabilities. It is an important issue to consider as there are still many things in the world the disable people and we still have steps to make society inclusive.
However, this type of care brings a lot of unconditioned difficulties due to the constant care they have to provide the elderly people with dementia. In a recent study it was discovered that caregivers experience stress differently given the circumstance this was shown by analysis of 234 people with dementia (Robertson, Zarit, Duncan, Rovine, & Femia, 2007). The findings were that caregivers in intense and distressed groups experienced higher behaviora...
Another powerful video, Including Samuel, ignited my insight in this week’s class. As I heard in the video, “inclusion is an easy thing to do poorly.” The movie chronicles the life of a young boy, Samuel, and his family. With the shock of learning about their son’s disability, it caused his parents, Dan and Betsy, to experience the unexpected. Nevertheless, they did everything to include their son and help him live a normal life focused on his capabilities, rather than his incapabilities. I even admired how his friends knew so much about him, his likes and dislikes, his strengths and his weaknesses.
The author starts by identifying the issue of assumption and labeling of people with disabilities. This issue is a common problem faced by all members of society today, as we constantly strive to avoid labelling and segregating people with exceptionalities. This overall teaches readers that making or creating assumptions and labels is wrong and can be hurtful. Furthermore, the author progresses by giving numerous examples and circumstances of people with exceptionalities. For example, If you need glasses to see or special scissors to cut with, you are using a special equipment to help you do your best. Some children are born with a disability and some have a disability because they have had an illness or have been in an accident” (Thomas, 14-16). The author’s examples are accurate portrayals of people with disabilities. It teaches readers that situations and circumstances such as birth, accidents and illnesses greatly influence the lives of everyone. Essentially disability is a condition that nobody has control or power
‘“Now it’s my turn to make it better for generations that come after, which is why I’ve become, involved in disabilities issues”’ (Open University, 2016a).
One of the most striking themes of the book was do not judge a person based upon their disabilities. In the book, the case studies were very unique. However, there was some bias that the author provided, and the talents of each of the patients was overlooked. For example, many of the patients had a debilitating disorder that
Disability is a condition that billions of people deal with in their daily life. Disabilities can range from physical to mental and can be observed in an abundance of ways. Some are obvious and apparent but some are invisible to the naked eye. Knowledge on disability seems to be lacking in this day and age, including how to deal with and talk about them. People seem to be unsure of just how varied disabilities are and just how many people deal with them. There also seems to be a stigma with disabilities that frankly, there is no need for. According to The Disabled Word, approximately 10% of the WORLD’S population deals with a disability and it is crucial that more people become of aware of what they are, how to remove the stigma that follows
The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 states that a person with a disability (1) has a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more major life activities, (2) has a record of such an impairment, or (3) is regarded as having such an impairment (42 USC 12101 [2]). Students with disabilities experience specific struggles that negatively impact their academic and social engagement. However, their needs are often not met by higher education institutions in comparison to other student identities. This comes from the stigma in our society surrounding disabilities. Children are taught from a young age that it is inappropriate ask an individual with a disability about their experience. These children grow up to be adults who feel uncomfortable being around those who may have a disability.
Tens of millions of American seniors receive home care assistance from family members. Without help and support, the seniors could not safely remain in their own home. While family caregivers tend to do an outstanding job in the short-term, caregiver burnout is extremely common as the stress of long-term caregiving takes over.
The term ‘carer’ is someone, who is providing an on-going significant level of care to a person who is limited by chronic conditions (DOH 2012). Caregiving involves from a short period of post-acute care to long term period of on-going care in accordance with the dependency level of care recipients. Family caregivers form the backbone of the social care delivery system by rendering an important proportion of their time and energy for the chronically ill or older adults (Angelo 2013). In fact, there are 164,000 older people with support needs in various communities across Ireland (TILDA 2012). Greater numbers of caregivers in Ireland are unpaid workers (89.5%), when compared to the 10.5% of paid carers (TILDA 2012). Most of the older adults need help from their close family members or friends, who spend a large amount of time interacting with their dear ones, while providing a comprehensive range of care activities. The provision of long-term care by family members has been found to be stressful in the sense of increased burden and anxiety (Neri et al. 2012). The difficulties, which resulted from multiple tasks leaves a personal strain on family caregivers, who often sacrifice their pastimes and own health needs for others (Angelo et al. 2014). In this study, the first part mainly focuses on the impacts of care giving as well as the needs of family caregivers. The second section will discuss the contribution of a gerontology nurse and the importance of education in the carer’s area of practice.
Disabilities. Many people don’t realize how lucky they are. They feel like they are hard done by and complain about all sorts of things, when they don’t realize the agonies that some people have to go through just to make it through the day. I will be comparing two different instances of disabilities. One from a book called The Miracle Worker, where a girl named Helen has had a disease that left her blind and deaf. And the other from the movie The piano, where the main character Sylvia, has been mute since she was 6 years old. I will talk about how the people around the one impaired were effected, how the person impaired was treated, and how they overcame their disability.
Primary caregivers are given an opportunity to take care of their loved ones; however, this job comes with a lot of stress and its consequences (Tsai, 2003). Primary caregivers take care of those with a chronic illness such as a family member or friend, are given a task that is so immense that it induces a lot of stress. In the previous decades, many research articles have developed studies which focused on stressors that were associated with the task of being the primary caregiver; yet, a theory surrounding this topic has not been developed until the early 2000s. Tsai (2003) developed the Theory of Caregiver Stress based on the Roy Adaptation Model to identify the caregiver’s response, perceptions, and adaptations to the stress and burden that primary caregiver’s experience.
Providing your loved one with constant and close care is no easy job. Caregivers have to work hard and it’s often a 24/7 balancing act keeping everything under control. Given these facts, it’s hardly surprising that many caregivers suffer from stress and end up caving under the weight of the burden.
Over the course of the caretaking role, it is important that the caregiver be surrounded by his/her own support system to provide the caregiver with encouragement and optimism (Haley, 2003). A high or low degree of social supports for the caregiver may also play a role in how well one copes with his/her new role, and one's ability to continue to fulfill it. Research has shown a positive correlation between increased levels of social support and caregiver health (Nijboer et al., 1998; Schulz & Sherwood, 2008). An increase in social supports is correlated to people that are happier, live healthier lives, and live longer than those who do not have support from others (Schulz & Sherwood, 2008). It's also important that caregivers be provided with support from healthcare professionals who are knowledgeable about the family member's sickness, and can also aid in making medical decisions. Professionals can help the caregiver cope, as well as decreasing the amount of stress he/she is facing (Haley, 2003). Just as essential is that the family members are able to support one another throughout the sickness. Depending upon the type of sickness, it can be viewed as a loss for families, and grief can often present itself. During this time, it is important that the family system is able to unite
Selway, D. and Ashman, A. (1998) Disability, Religion and Health: A literature review in search of the spiritual dimensions of disability. Disability & Society, 13(3), pp.429-439.