Family Recess Clinical Essay

Family Recess Clinical

“Every child deserves a champion, an adult who will never give up on them, who understands the power of connection, and insists that they become the best that they can possibly be” (Pickson n.d.). On Saturday February the 17th of 2018, I walked into a situation that I had no clue what to expect. Having background working with special needs children, help me and my classmate become a better team and provide the best care possible. Throughout the day, the nursing student was able to connect with 9 children that ranged from down syndrome, autism, attention-deficit hyperactive disorder, linked x chromosome disease and development disabilities.

Explore at least 3 challenges special need families experience in day to day

One of the major challenges that I was able to discover at the clinical rotation was the financial strange on most of the families. Having a child with special education comes with financial stresses such as one patient not being able to work due to the lack of child care resources, medical bills increase and the cost of living going up. An example from my clinical experience, was there was a family of three autism brothers and sister. These children’s mother is a single mom and finical stress is present. Another struggle that was seen throughout the day was the emotional and spiritual aspects of this children. Most of these children struggle with communication. With no communication skills, as a mentor is was hard to understand their needs. When this children would express their needs and us mentor where not able to figure out what they needed, that would have a huge impact on their emotional and spiritual aspect. One of the children, would express this emotional and spiritual aspects by throwing toys and/or hitting you with the toys. This kind of action is based on the lack of communication, and unable to express there emotional and spiral aspect through words. In a hand few of these children, physical challenges were noted. Physical challenges can be noted by lack of self-care (diaper changing),

Running away was a common safety issue we dealt with at the clinical rotation. Specific interventions as a team we did to keep this child safe was to have a mentor with this child the whole day. The mentor was there in interaction with the child, and at the same time keep him safe. Another safety issues we dealt with at the clinical rotations was biting. This is a safety issues not only for the mentors, but for the other children at respite. This safety issue is something that can not be complete in done day, but we made sure the child understood the consequences of biting others. The child did happen to bite me while at respite and to help with this safety issues I sat the child down at the “time-out” table so she could understand that though action is not acceptable. Another safety that was brought to my attention was running in the halls. Many of the children enjoyed being able to run free; however, I felt like it was a safety issue. An intervention I tried to implement was no running in the halls. Some of the children understood why; however, some hand a hard time understanding why it wasn’t okay. As a nurse, safety is a big aspect of our job and it important to keep not only our patient safe but us as