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Running head: DEVELOPING A CULTURE OF CAREDEVELOPING A CULTURE OF CAREName of the student:Name of the university:Author note:
1DEVELOPING A CULTURE OF CAREIntroduction: With the advancement in the medical field along with the scientific innovations andtechnological revolution, it has now been possible to save lives of huge number of people. Manyof the individuals who previously faced premature death or suffered due to severe acute as wellas chronic disorders are now been able to be saved by the healthcare professionals (Catteau et al.2016). The medical advancement has thereby helped in extending the lifespan of individualsallowing them to live for larger number of years. When data was collected in the year 2014 to2016. It was seen that the life expectancy at birth for males is 80.4 years while that of femalesare 84.6 years. It was seen that in the past 10 years, life expectancy has increased by 1.7 years formales as well as 1.1 users for females. The life expectancy has increased from 47.2 in males and80.8 years in females from the year 1881 to 1890 in such great extent. However, although the lifeexpectancy has increased and modern healthcare are enabling people to love for long, but thequality of life of the aged people has not evolved at the same pace (Vanderberg et al. 2017). Itwas found that a huge number of old individuals of the nation are suffering from different typesof chronic disorders that may range from obesity, arthritis, diabetes to many others likecardiovascular disorders, hypertensions, loss of mobility and falls, constipation and many others.Dementia, Parkinson disorders, delirium, depression and many others are also seen to beassociated with them. Often almost of the old age people are seen to suffer from co morbidsituations that make their lives with difficult, dependent and of poorer quality. Therefore, itresults in huge pressure on the different healthcare professionals working in the geriatric wards,as such patients are not only higher in number in comparison to other specialties but also requirelong term care (Boltz et al., 2016). All these put extra pressure on the geriatric department nursesto meet the standards and provide the best quality care for the patients. This assignment would
2DEVELOPING A CULTURE OF CAREshow how changes are tackling place in the department of the Xyz healthcare centre and furtherrecommendations that would help in development of service.Overview of specialty area of nursing practice and highlighting of the changes:The XYZ healthcare center provides care to geriatric patients who mainly get admittedhere due to various chronic disorders. The healthcare professionals working here providecompassionate as well as empathetic care to the patients trying their best to develop their qualityof life. Over the past decade, the healthcare centre has been able to manage a number of changesthat had been found to have positive effect on the heath of the geriatric patients (Wilson et al.,2017). The most important change that had been initiated is the geriatric department is thegradual shift of the biomedical model of healthcare and nursing to that of the bio-psycho-socialmodel of nursing. Researchers have stated this to be one of the most important models that thehealthcare professionals should include in their care because evidence stays that this model ofcare has higher patient satisfaction and even positive outcomes on the health of the individuals.Previously, the nursing professionals used to follow the biomedical model of care (Sun et al.,2017). This model of care mainly focuses on the different physical as well as the biologicalaspects of the old patients. Doctors and other healthcare professionals only provide importance tocure, diagnosis and treatment of the disorders of the patients. However, such model of care wasnot helping to provide best quality health to the patient. Many researchers are of the opinion thatsuch a model of care can never influence the culture of safety and compassionate care in thehealthcare centers (MewShaw et al., 2017). This type of care that was previously conducted by the nursing professionals used toignore the view that health as well as illness is relative and they are socially constructed.
3DEVELOPING A CULTURE OF CARETherefore, only caring about biological determinants may not ensure successful social life andmental; stability. This model of care made the nursing professionals suggested that healthproblems are individual and thereby they used to ignore the social factors that could lead toillness. This model of care focused too much on treatment and therefore used to provide muchsignificance of medical interventions only. Therefore, the healthcare provided to the patients washalf hearted and they never used to completely recover from ill health. Their disorders wereproperly controlled but often the disorders used to return back resulting in readmissions, loss offinance and higher level of suffering (Brody 2017). With the advancement of the new healthprofessional leaders, the healthcare section of the geriatric department had gone under changes inpattern of providing care and developing better models that would ensure best quality life of theprofessionals. In order to ensure that the old aged patients get the highest quality care, the bio-psycho-social model of care was advised by the leaders to be taken up by the healthcareprofessionals. This is the model of care which actually follows a conceptual framework thatmainly includes the improvements of the patients in both the sectors of healthcare as well as wellbeing. This is mainly done by directing the efforts of the healthcare professionals towardseffective addressing of the social, economical as well as environmental determinants of thehealth. This model is mainly based on the understanding that in order to achieved health gains ofthe patients, social, economic and different environmental determinants must be addressed. Thenursing professionals understood that old aged patients go through different emotional as well asmental and physical turmoil that make them stressed and results them to be dependent. Such afeeling of dependency and being burden on others affects their mental stability (Pierre andConley 2017). Therefore, the nursing professionals of this organization ensured that they aregetting holistic care that helps in developing a connection of the mind-body-spirit-emotion-
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