Working with the elderly has given me a different perceptive of life and allowed me to appreciate those around us that can truly make a
In my opinion I highly agree on this job because I, myself love to help elders on anything they need help with. I also have the patience to work in the environment with elders. They also make good amount of money, and the employment outlook is very
Critical Reflection: Provider The site I observed at was Nazareth senior living center. The facility provides short term and long term care to older adults. The health care staff working at the facility includes: Nurses, social worker, dietitian, physical therapist, occupational therapist, speech therapist recreation therapist and a part time physician.
This last week was not the best. I might've bombed my Chemistry final; I studied for days from the book and practice exams. The test was nothing like I expected it to be, and now my hopes of getting into the nursing program are going down the drain. I still need to find out what I got, but I just feel defeated. Thank you for your prayers, I need them right now.
“To work with the elderly, one must have compassion and patience” (Warta, par.5). This is something we all should know because elderly do not have enough strength to keep themselves moving alone all the time. They move slower and to work with them you need plenty of patience if not that is not the best place for you to work. When I first arrived before even beginning to volunteer there, we passed this big cafeteria and everybody was moving slow. I was just secretly looking because I knew many elderly do not like to be starred at especially from me that looks way too young to be there.
The age-old threshold of self-responsibility is something every teenager passes when moving on from high school. I had a taste of this life when participating in the Carnegie Mellon University Pre-College Program during this last summer. I was part of the National High School Game Academy, where we learned about game development and made our own video games. Life on campus was liberating, yet stressful, as I learned there were many entertaining activities as well as deadlines to meet during this six week program. Temptations such as clubs and amusement park trips plagued my entire stay on campus.
This meant that I was required to properly communicate with older adults and discuss things many different areas. Speaking to so many different personalities was definitely challenging at first. However, I managed and learned how to tackle this problem from different angles until I became ultimately comfortable with speaking to older age groups. As a volunteer, this was a significant responsibility that required exceptional people skills along with time management
Time feels accelerated when I see my grandparents as though I am seeing them in a time-lapsed movie. Aside from the additional wrinkles, slower movement, and frailty that comes with aging, observing them, I have come to realize that life is short, perhaps too short. They have lived in my house throughout my life, and being close with them from a young age has given way to listening to many important life lessons, sometimes wanting to listen willfully and other times forcing myself to do so. One thing I have come to understand is that the advice and experiences of one’s elders serves an important function, to impart wisdom. They recommended to me to pursue my passions, so during my college career, I became involved in the Pre-health Professions
My initial recommendation would be to first coordinate all of the services available to senior citizens on a state and national database. Seniors could visit one agency in their community, go online, or call a 1-800 number to access services. This one agency could sign them up for social security benefits, food assistance programs, employment training or job placement, in home care services, transportation, etc. They could also advise seniors and their family members on what services they qualify for and help them get all that they are entitled to receive. This would allow seniors to feel less stressed and know that they are not alone.
The idea I can’t stop thinking about is universal health coverage, or more realistically, a system of nationally funded public healthcare. From the time I was little, healthcare and medicine has been a part of my life. I chased my older sister around our house with bandaids, and I played school nurse with my mom in the care while we waited for my sister to finish school. Healthcare has shaped the way I think about people and the world. I have followed our system of healthcare since I was old enough to understand politics.
It is very important in your job role as health care assistant to know all the information about the individual take for example they wont know there children as adults they would only know them as children and even though there husband has died they still will think they are alive. You might get upset or frustrated in trying to explain to them there children are all grown up and that there husband died along time ago you have to patient it is important to use the right tone of and to role play along with service user in order to make them feel comfortable or remind them of what day and year .Sometimes it can be very difficult to get threw to an individual who has dementia. It is very important to always smile using eye contact greet them good morning how are you today the weather is really sunny
My passion for healthcare lies with patient care. I enjoy taking care of patients and their family. I have chosen to become a family nurse practitioner because I can combine nursing and medicine to provide a higher level of care to my patients. As a nurse practitioner will be able to make an impact on my patient’s health through, health promotion, disease prevention, managing acute and chronic conditions and improving patient’s health (Wynne,
Besides, the health care worker must have strategies that enhance communication with older adult. The older adults need more attention in order to promote wellness and
Barely walking, stomach aching, head spinning as I got into the car. I had to go to the hospital in the middle of the night and I had no idea why. I was alone with me and a nurse from summer’s best two weeks. It had only been a day, and it was happening again. It had been a year since I had gone to summer’s best two weeks in Boswell, PA, but the joy of seeing my friends from the previous year did not last long.
It to notice that elder people faces various issues in terms of their job, societal and family perspective. One of my clients Mr ABC visited and informed me that he was facing the issue at his work place and he has speech therapy problem, due to which he was unable to communicate effectively. I got through his profile and got to know that his experience in the field was exceptional, but after facing with an incident he got some serious injuries and that resulted in getting his left arm effected. He was unable to get the job again because he started losing his confidence. He became really disheartened and disappointed from whatever he was going through.
