Hazards in Risk Assessment of a Patient with Dementia in Residential Home - Desklib

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Background:
 The purpose of the assignment is to identify the hazards in the
risk assessment regarding morning activity such as gardening of
a new patient in the residential home.
 The following presentation will focus on-
• Hazards related to risk assessment of a patient with dementia.
• Recognizing who might be harmed and how this will occur.
• Understanding the way in which risk assessment will inform care
planning.
• Strategies to overcome the risk.

Identify hazards in the risk
assessment
In the process of risk assessment of the patient with
dementia during gardening the nurses could face many
difficulties such as-
 There is a high risk of fall in case of dementia, thus the
patient may got minor to severe injury during gardening.
 Due to cognitive impairment the patient could face
difficulties in recognizing language thus the nurses could
fail to communicate with the patient in an effective
manner (Reamer 2013).

Identify hazards in the risk
assessment
 Due to the problem of lack of memory the patient may
come out of the residential home during gardening.
 The nurses face difficulties in case of limiting the free
movement of the patient.
 The nurse might face mental and verbal abuse.
 The restriction of the nurse may create irritation to the
patient, thus the patient could harm the nurse during
risk assessment (Reamer 2013).