Unit 8 Health And Social Care Case Study

Mei may find herself feeling stressed as the pressure of being rushed to carry out her specific duties are pushed to the imit. The feeling of not being able to spend as much quality time with her residents as she used to, could have Mei feeling as though she is not providing the care as she would like to. Mei could find that she could be suffering from headaches or is becoming irritable at being rushed to perform her normal duties such as showers, toileting, making beds and helping the residents with their meals and even preparing the residents for bed.
This could have an adverse effect on the residents too as they will be missing out on the personable contact they Mei used to provide to them.
The best possible thing for Mei to do is to stay

positive, believe in herself and focus on the job at hand. Mei needs to realise that she can only do what can be done in the time frame that has been given to her, it could also be that her fellow team mates are also feeling the stress from not having the same amount of workers as before and it is in the best interest of the team to try and work thru it together. It would be best for Mei to focus on what she is achieving as opposed to what she has not, that way it would take some of the pressure from her shoulders.
In saying that, the ramifications of this could be enormous for Mei, her fellow workers and the facility. The facility has a Duty of Care to each and every resident and worker to provide the safe and healthy environment for the Residents to live in and for the carers to work in. If the workers feel as tho they are pushed for time then they may start to cut corners and miss doing some vital duties for the resident.
Or it may be that Mei will have to leave what she cannot get finished which will then carryon over to the next worker and then it will just snowball. It will get to the stage where everyone has left something out of their normal routine with the residents and then the duty of care will fail, leaving residents in a situation which would be harmful to their health.
The reduction of staff would pose an enormous threat to the amount of care the workers could provide this would be in the way of rushing to have showers done, toileting, making beds increasing the amount of pressure on all levels of carers making it increasingly difficult for them to carry out the duties that they are to do. It would also cut down on the time that they could spend just sitting and spending time with the resident, doing other things such as having normal conversations and interacting with the residents as normal human beings instead of just being the resident who needs to be showered, toileted or fed.