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Running head: PERSONAL REFLECTION OF INFORMAL CARE GIVERSPersonal reflection of informal care giversName of the student:Name of the university:Author note:
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1PERSONAL REFLECTION OF INFORMAL CARE GIVERSHealth care has a varied assortment of different professionals, and given themultidisciplinary nature of the health care industry in the current age, the variety of job rolesavailable in the industry is appreciable. The informal caregivers belong with the extendedverity of job roles available in the health care industry. The concept of informal care deviatesa bit from the conventional full time health care providers, where the hired informal careproviders assist the patient in healthy living while in home based environment all the whilenot conventionally belonging to the health care and medical field. However, this difference indesignation often creates a number of challenges in the path for health care delivery for theinformal care providers (Harding et al., 2012). According to the reading by UTHORS, the rise in the frequency of home discharge hassignificantly increased the need for informal care givers and it has spiked the employmentscenario for informal carers as well. However, from my own professional experience, thelack of skill and preparation in the informal carers regarding chronic illness and thepossibility of encountering death is huge. The qualitative study focuses more on the lifeexperiences of the care provider and helps to understand the challenges faced by the informalcare givers (Plank, Mazzoni & Cavada, 2012).The verdict of the study concludes that excessive workload and ‘being responsible foreverything’ has a significant effect on the psych and tolerance of the informal caregiver. Iwould like to add that in the home based environments the entire responsibility of thecritically ill patient falls upon the informal care provider and fulfilling the endlessresponsibilities facilitate extreme burnout in the informal caregivers. In agreement with thefinal verdict of the article, the family members cannot fulfil the need for critically ill patienton their own and the need for skilled professional knowledge (Plank, Mazzoni & Cavada,
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