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Clinical Integration Specialty Practice
TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1 PART A- MODULE 1.....................................................................................................................1 Safety......................................................................................................................................1 MODULE 2: CONFIDENTIALITY...............................................................................................3 Confidentiality........................................................................................................................3 Presenting implications and dilemmas legally and ethically..................................................3 Impact and consequences for not maintaining confidentiality...............................................4 PART B: MODULE 3.....................................................................................................................4 Reflection using Five R's........................................................................................................4 REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8
INTRODUCTION Efforts made by physicians, healthcare system or hospital to create a well-designed coordinated system to improve quality of care and minimise health care cost through advanced and better efficiency are collectively known as Clinical Integration. The report will cover physical and emotional safety in aged care. PART A- MODULE 1 Safety Safety related issues that are involved in nursing are; injuries, diseases, disorders, infections, changes in mental health, etc. (Andersen, Horton & Clarke, 2017). Safety is refers to the discipline concerned with preventing the work place from exposure to hazards that occur due to some activity. It has been noticed that most requests for help that come to Workplace Health and safety are related to Aged care industry. Further, the safety of nurses at workplace reducing injuries & illness which is important to nurses as well as the patients they care for. The existence of healthy nurses at workplace is very essential to provide empathic care to aged people. Moreover, nurses experience significant demands like psychological or physical at the time of work safety environment which can be harmful. Thesehazardoushealthresultsmayincludemusculoskeletaldisorders,andother infectious diseases. It has been determined that link between health & safety and work schedules is difficult and affected by characteristics of time schedule. In nursing, emotional safety in aged care refers to a state of emotions that achieved when people get attached to someone.For this, emotional safety workplace can be attained by making learnings on social and emotional knowledge. This process is considered important as through this adults obtain knowledge, attitude and skills that they need to identify & manage their feelings, & express empathy to others. Competencies in relation to emotional safety learning skills is should be promoted in community by which aged people feel valued, and respected (Dunning, Savage & Duggan, 2016). Manual handling in healthcare refers to activity that requires the utilisation of efforts by an individual to carry, lower, pull, support, or restrain another person. Furthermore, manual handling competencies provide standards to nurses in hospitals that they can use in their professional practice. Theses explain the skills, knowledge and behaviour that need to be 1
implemented by them to reduce manual handling danger to themselves & others. Injuries that can be caused due to manual handling can be acute trauma which include fractures or cuts. Also, the most common causes are; workplace injuries and back pain. It has been discovered that, the competencies standards aim to provide: Standards that are clear and consistent, for which nurses should be able to do this within their practice in aged care associated with manual handling (Oakman & Bartram, 2017). It also provides an in built risk management approach for health care nurses to manual handling, that will inform knowledge and learning assets. Safety in aged care is considered very important component of quality nursing care. However, it has been seen that the care system is full of errors, and can be damaging to safe patient care (Emotional Safety,2018). Yet, in today's world, healthcare providers face many issues in care environment, while trying to keep their patients safe. Here are some strategies that can be followed by nurses to prevent injuries: Become familiar: - It is necessary for nurses to become familiar with aged patients, this will help them to move patients safely and bring them closer emotionally as well. Nurses should make efforts to understand patient's feelings, thoughts and emotions, so that they can take care for them easily. Provide safe companion: - It has been suggested that hospitals must increase safety companions for patients who find it difficult to follow directions (Jeon et al., 2015). Do safety rounds: - It is considered one of the most effective strategies, which should be used to prevent falls, for which safety rounds should be conducted twice a day. 2
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