Effective Caring: Techniques, Constraints, and Quality of Life

This report discusses the importance of quality of life, key caring techniques, and positive caring in providing good quality patient care. It also highlights the constraints to positive caring, such as language impairment, disability, and vision. The report emphasizes the need for a friendly, safe, and happy relationship between the patient, family, and healthcare professionals to develop trust and provide efficient services.

INTRODUCTION TO
EFFECTIVE CARING

ABSTRACT
The present report is based on how quality of life plays an essential role in providing
improved services to the patients. The present report describes the important things that needs to
be considered by individuals in order to have a high quality of life. It also discusses about the
different kinds of positive caring techniques that are helpful in improving the patient care. Report
also included the description about constraints to the positive caring which highlighted the
impairment in language, disability, vision and other constraints. It also illustrated the range of
discussion over the techniques and positive caring work to accomplished the good quality for
patient.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
ABSTRACT....................................................................................................................................2
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................4
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................4
Factors required for individuals to have a high quality of life....................................................4
F. key caring techniques..............................................................................................................5
G. Four to six constraints for positive caring..............................................................................7
H.) How quality of life, key caring techniques and positive caring work together in order to
achieve good quality patient care................................................................................................8
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................1

INTRODUCTION
Quality of life is a person's perception of position in life within the context of value
system and culture in which they spend their lives and in respective of their expectations, goals,
concerns and standards (Brown, 2021). It has various dynamics of wealth, health, lifestyle,
culture etc. Key caring techniques can be defined as the essential skills and methods required for
providing healthy, caring and supportive measures for the clients. To provide the best possible
care for the dependent clients who put their trust in the practitioner it required to adapt the key
caring techniques in the treatment of the clients. It requires practitioners to know the history or
background and understanding of the clients or patients. Positive caring is defined as the
emphatic and comprehensive approach of caring for the residents and patients. It brings utmost
care and well-being for the patients who are seniors and are in need of the standard care.
MAIN BODY
Factors required for individuals to have a high quality of life
Quality of life is a very subjective topic as it comes different for different individuals. It
is very difficult to measure the quality of life as it varies from person to person. Further the
condition and surroundings one lives in plays a very important role in defining the quality of life,
as a person who lives in healthy surroundings tends top enjoy good quality life. Each county has
different measures to determine the quality of life yet some very important factors which are
required for an individual to have high quality of life is as follows.
Physical health: physical well-being of an individual plays an important role in uplifting the
quality of life, as a person who is not physically well will never be happy irrespective of his
wealth status. Physical health is considered as the biggest wealth of an individual. United
kingdom spends high budget for maintaining the physical health of the people as it is one of the
important factors in quality of life in the country.
psychological condition: mental well-being is the very synonym of the psychological condition.
In recent times individual carries a lot of stress due to family, poor work life balance etc. issues.
A healthy mental status defines sense of security, happiness, satisfaction, conviction etc. life
satisfaction has decreased by 0.9% comparatively to the average rating of 7.72% due to factors
like psychological conditions (De Guimarães and et.al., 2020).
independence: the prevalence of freedom of choice, action and life given to the individual in
living life is a crucial indicator in high quality of life. People who tend to have less independence

feels poor quality of life due to lack of control over life. People who tend to have more freedom
and control over life enjoys high quality of life than others who do not have control and freedom.
Relationship: healthy relationship is way of high quality life. People suffer in life because of
problems in the relationship, and this makes them less confident in life. A good state of one's
relationships in life contributes to high quality of life. According to a source 35% people in UK
feels that they are affected by the relationships and it has vital role in building the quality of life
(Uysal, Berbekova and Kim, 2020).
monetary aspect: every individual has some monetary goals in life which keeps him motivated.
Yet in the times of recession, inflation and pandemic people faced low quality of life because of
poor financial and health aspect. Hence, monetary aspect such as wealth and finance plays
important role in determining quality of life.
Environment: the surrounding of an individual where they live affects the way of living and
thinking of an individual. It affects the quality of life of the people. As peaceful surrounding
makes a person less burdened and more productive rather than a hectic and harmful environment.
It plays a vital role, like according to author rural people tend to have low quality of life than the
urban people.
F. key caring techniques
There are different types of caring techniques are used for patients in order to focus more
on providing positive care. Some techniques as follows: Working alongside- This technique can be defined as carer and patient are working at
same place together. This is the positive techniques which help for enhance the
environment in positive direction. Also, in context to health care system it is necessary to
be with patient every time in order to provide them proper care. This is important for the
patient in order to provide them proper attention which is help for decreasing the threat.
For example, when as care worker play with child or join them while playing help for
encourage them. As well as this is the opportunity for growing effectively with the help
of housework. Then carer can be cooking along sides of patient so that it help for
improving the mental and physical activities (Stepp, 2019). Setting challenges- This is related for suggesting different type of task and activities for
the individual which help for improving skills, abilities and confidence. Also, it has been
analysed that there are individuals which help for improving the level of belief that can

not bes restricted the activities. It is important for setting challenges which is improving
the roles of carer and then achieving goals.
For example, A physiotherapist can set the challenges for older in order to improve their
performance and then setting criteria for walking, hand movement, etc., This is depended on the
level ability of an individual. Then target should be proposed by carer according to the age of an
individual.
 Safe working practice- According to Management of health and safety at work
regulations 1999 that are help employer in order to focus on by managing in the industry.
In context to HSC it is necessary to work under act of health and safety work act 1974
which can be applied for every activity. In order to follow the care workers training it has
been analysed that some patients are mentally ill and can be injured carer so it is
necessary to makes sure about the mood and nature of patient (Stevens and Yibarbuk,
2019).
For example, For mentally ill patient it is necessary to look upon the activity perform by
them as well as it help for maintaining hygiene practice for all the work. Then for every
carer it is important to work on the basis of maintaining own safety which help for using good
practice.
 Good hygiene practice- Good hygiene practice help for adopt the strategy for good
hygiene practice which help to maintain good health as well as it create positive
environment as well as it is necessary for enhance the daily practice in order to control
infection. There is high chance of scattered the bacteria. This is also important for follow
the guideline which is necessary to protect with care worker and contract of infection.
Also, it has been analysed that patient are related to vulnerable bodies which are
necessary for exposed at large number of individual who can pass the infection. Then
patient are vulnerable bodies that can be fight against individual as well as it is necessary
for recover the individual from illness (Shawahna, 2019).
For example, if the patient is suffering from skin infection it is necessary to maintain hygiene at
patient place so that it helps to remove germs and not scattered the infection on another. Also, it
is necessary for carer to restrict the area for patient so that it help for avoiding infection to others.

G. Four to six constraints for positive caring
NHS England have outlined the potential constraints which have been faced by the health
care over the years it involves the financial difficulty, changes within the governmental policies
and also inhabitants with the substantial amount of serious health issues.
Financial difficulty: financial difficulty is the major constraint that restricts the positive caring
for the person, as most of the time it is seen that medical compensation cost more which the one
could not afford, thus because of this it affects their treatment process (Filo, Fechner and Inoue,
2020). It is manifested by the lack of resources that are needed to provide the positive caring to
patient. Thus it creates the barrier for the one to avail the necessary medical services, it also
impacts their quality of life. For an example if person do not have the medical insurance then it
also causes barrier for them to pay for medical services.
Impairment of language: It is characterised by the complex articulation within the words, it is
manifested in two ways which are receptive language disorder where one is not able to
comprehend the language and other one is expressive language. Thus it creates the barrier for
both patient and service care provider, patient who is having the language problem are more
likely to seen as depending on healthcare services and also experiences the adverse events.
Illiteracy: Patient with the illiteracy having bad health outcomes, it also gives the negative
impact over the patient’s health. It is manifested by the lack of information within the societies
and communities. It has the worse impact for the quality of positive caring. For an instance if
person belongs to the community where lack of education and other things are found than in such
they also refuse to take medical services instead they rely on traditional methods.
Disability: People with disability experiences the stigma and discrimination where it would be
difficult for them to access the medical services. It can be manifested as disability is not only in
deliberate segregation it involves the restrictions within the bodily functions. It is found that in
most of areas disable people face the discrimination to avail the health care services they usually
receive the poor quality services. Thus it affects the positive caring for the patient.
Personality: It also have influence in positive caring, it is found that people with the
conscientious are more likely to make better healthier decisions while people with the high
neuroticism usually seeks for the medical help and have poor social support system (Li and
Jensen, 2019). Due to the restrictions within the social activities personality constraints can be
manifested and it will become more uniform over the time. in health care conscientiousness

contributes towards the health outcomes which directly increases the patient attentiveness with
the physiotherapy. Thus in healthcare it is important that nursing staff to have personality that
will make them able to influence the patient to undertake medical treatment.
Vision: This constraint limits the positive caring and also lead to create the several challenges
for the caring or treatment of patient. Most relevant manifestation of the visual attention is that
one cannot be able to process all things that is seen at the same level of detail. Vision loss affects
the quality of life and this mobility can also be associated with the falls and other injuries.
Other than this lack of effective communication within the healthcare becomes the
constrains in providing the better healthcare services to patient.
H.) How quality of life, key caring techniques and positive caring work together in order to
achieve good quality patient care.
According to World Health Organization, the quality of life refers to the perspective of
different individuals with respect to their position in the city, place or country where they live. It
has been determined that in order to provide the patients within the hospital, the doctors and the
family of the patients should take care of certain things before they proceed and plan to provide
them with enhanced level of satisfaction (Santini, S., and et.al 2020). It has been determined that
in order to improve the health care provide to the patient, it is essential for the doctors and the
family to make sure that the living standard of patient is good, they have been receiving positive
caring and the right kind of practices are being used by the caretakers.
It has been identified that the quality of life of a patient helps the doctors in determining
if there are any kinds of risk to the health of the patients which might be developed because of
the lifestyle of a patient. For instance, if a patient is taking treatment for any kind of lung
infection, the doctors might want to know if the patient does smoking or not. Because, most of
the diseases associated with the lungs are caused due to smoking. Therefore, the doctor might
want to know if an individual smokes or not. This will help the doctors in identifying whether the
patient is at risk of developing any other kind of disease. This in turn will help the health care
specialist in treatment the patient with care and determining if he or she needs any kind of
precaution.
Similarly, the positive caring and the kind of technique used by the health care
professional and nurses plays an essential role in treating the patient and providing them with

better and improved services. Caring is one of the most important aspect of treating a patient
which is suffering from any kind of disease. Caring shows affection and affection has the power
to treat the patient. In order to provide a patient with efficient services, it is the duty of the family
members and the health care professionals to determine the needs and wants of the patient, treat
them with love and affection, allow them to feel that they are safe and if they want they have the
power to make themselves better on their own (Palacio, and Limonero, 2020). If the family,
friends and the health care professionals will develop a friendly, safe and happy relation with the
patient, it will allow the patient to develop trust within themselves. This trust will help the patient
to easily communicate with them, tell them about what they have feeling, are they feeling good
with the treatment or not, do they feel any kind of positive change within their bodies or not. All
of these questions, when answered will allow the health care professionals and the family in
changing their course of treatment if they find that the existing treatment is not showing any kind
of results. Therefore, it can be said that a good quality of life, a positive caring and the caring
techniques plays an essential role in enhancing the level of patient care and their satisfaction
attached with it.

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