Management of Care Case Study Josepha is working on a medical surgical unit with three other RNs and one LPN. There is also a male and a female patient care tech. Josepha has been a nurse for four months, and after completing two months of orientation she takes a full assignment as a registered nurse. Josepha feels that the assignments she receives are not always fair, as she tends to get the most challenging clients.
The role of an ombudsman is to receive, investigate, identify and resolve problems of those residing in nursing facilities. Ombudsmen also look for resources in the community to assist and residents, their families, along with caregivers. One of the main roles of an ombudsman is to monitor facilities and address any complaints residents or their families have. Long-term care ombudsmen in San Bernardino County
While conducting a face to face interview with Marilyn Harrison the director of the operation, Marilyn stated that Maleigh B. the victim was wearing flip flops on the day of the incident and was informed of the incident when Thelma Honea had brought Mayleigh to her after she fell on the playground, Ms. Harrison stated the child was crying and saying her arm was hurting but there was no swelling of the arm and Mayleigh was moving it around and using it. Ms. Harrison stated that Maleigh runs every where she goes and is continuous told to walk. Ms. Harrison also stated Ashley Barton, another caregiver is the one who called the mother to inform her of the incident. Marilyn stated the mother came at lunch time to pick the child up. Ms. Harrison
Your duty of care is to provide the best possible care to the people you are supporting. Keeping them safe and ensuring that all their needs are met to the very best of your ability. It is important when doing this to record and report any dangers and to follow the organisations policies and procedures at all
As an intern at Preferred Family Healthcare, I am working with individuals in the Residential Care Facility (RCF). I am working with these individuals who 's goal it is to move out of a residential setting into their own apartment. One of the groups I have been facilitating is comprised of three men. These men range in age from early twenties to fifties, but all have the same goal of wanting to move out on their own. Preferred Family Healthcare RCF staff meets weekly to discuss and identify the needs and concerns of these individuals.
This week at my field agency, I took part in the following activities which includes; attending team meeting, supervision, observed intake, individual, family as well as group sessions with the dual-clients.’ I conducted individual and family sessions with the observation of my supervisor; took referrals and scheduled/ rescheduled clients’ appointments. My supervisor sat in with me at my initial sessions, however, I am currently conducting a few of my sessions without supervision. After the first supervision, my supervisor directed me on how to type in the progress note into Patagonia, the Medical Health System utilized by the Health Department to document clients’ clinical assessments as well as progress notes.
A manager is a person responsible for planning and directing the work of group of individuals, monitoring their work and taking action when necessary. Managers may work directly with workers or they may delegate several supervisors to direct workers. In care settings such as care homes, managers are responsible for the day-to-day running of the care homes and must see to it that the quality of service and care workers both direct and indirect meets the needs of residents and the National Minimum Standards in general. A manager must be a good communicator, strong interpersonal skills among others. A care home manager may specialise in working with older people, people with physical disabilities or people with mental health problems.
Welcome! This is a cookbook about helping children advance independently in the kitchen through the form of simple non-heat cooking in a minimalistic style. The recipes included in this book focus on the stage between assisting in the kitchen and beginning to use ovens, stovetops and other elements that require high levels of attention and responsibility. The cookbook allows children to demonstrate their abilities in the kitchen leading up to learning about cooking with heat-related equipment through the use of a microwave, kettle, hot water and powered equipment.
I am able to discuss any work related concerns during my supervision as well and discuss my professional development. Staff is able to access courses, workshops and seminars that enhance the knowledge relating to the implementation of safeguarding policies. Weekly staff meetings improve working practice allowing staff to discuss child safeguarding issues. Nevertheless, not everyone in the team holds same level of safeguarding training, especially agency staff or volunteers that come in contact with children and families, creating great risk to their
Reflection Paper #2: Supervision and Consultation I have been with Clackamas County Juvenile Department for a full four weeks (at the time this paper was originally written) where I have been completing about eight hours a week. My field instructor, Jillian Kellington, and I have only recently connected with each other and established that she will, in fact, be my field instructor. Despite the nature and quickness of my assignments, Jillian and I both found it helpful to establish and discussed the requirements of this assignment. The purpose of this paper will be to reflect on my field instructors and I’s discussion surrounding constructive feedback and describing my supervision and consultation.
This essay is going to reflect on my own management and leadership style in delivering patient care. It will discuss the effectiveness of the other leadership and management style within the multi-disciplinary team and its impact on delivering patient care. I will use as an example, my previous experience back home as a nurse and compare it to my current experience in the United Kingdom (UK). This will show my strength and weakness as well as my new learning skills, which have changed my practice. I will be using Driscoll model of reflection (2007) to guide my thought and refine my ideas.
1.1 Explain what it means to have a duty of care in own work role. Duty of care means to have a legal responsibility towards others. It is a legal requirement that all health care workers must put the interest of their service users first and make sure that the service users do not come to any harm be it abuse or self-harm. As a care giver, my duty is to provide care according to the organisation’s code of practice in my day to day work, to make sure that my service users are supported and treated with dignity and respect by following the policies and procedures set out by my employer, it is my duty of care to involve service user in their care unless it is not possible for them to be involved. Service should be provided in a safe environment
Healthcare organizations’ goals includes provide quality, value priced, safe health care services and ultimately, improve health outcomes. In addition to this primary goal, healthcare organizations also seek financial stability, community value, ethics and employee engagement. In this context, leaders are asked to efficiently use the available resources to optimize the managerial approaches to direct their teams towards more productive environment and positive interactions with patients. Healthcare setting-unlike business setting-is a more complicated system that consists of different professional teams and departments that usually don’t share the same objectives or planning strategies due to the diversity in the services provided.
Demonstrating ‘respect for patients’ values, preferences and expressed needs,’ is one of the eight dimensions of person centred care outlined by the Picker Institute (ref). Morgan and Yoder (2012) described ‘respectful care’ as being an attribute of person centred and while the author does not disagree with this idea of ‘respectful care’ being inherent to person centred care, the author believes that Slater (2006) more accurately describes dignity and respect as being antecedents of person centred care. These antecedents drive respect of personal values, individual needs and decisions, a consequence of which is an improved therapeutic relationship and health outcomes. The author considers this view of dignity, compassion and respect as antecedents
Introduction What is supervision? According to the Supervision Framework for the Social Work Profession in South Africa. 2012. Social work supervision is an interactional and interminable process within the context of a positive, anti-discriminatory relationship, based on distinct theories, models and perspectives on supervision whereby a social work supervisor supervises a social work practitioner by performing educational, supportive and administrative functions in order to promote efficient and professional rendering of social work services.
