Nursing Care: Person-Centered Approach, Rights and Responsibilities, Restraint, and Quality Standards

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1. As a nurse there is a need that I can provide a patient centered approach to all the
patients. Person-centred care is not about providing the individuals with their choice of
treatment or information but it also considers the values, desires, family situations, lifestyle,
and circumstances that will help the individual along with the nurses to develop the
appropriate solution (Gilligan and Weinstein 2014). The nurses can get the information for
having the holistic approach by the past medical history as well as the patient details. The
benefit of having such an approach is that the patient and the nurse both are comfortable with
each other as well as the nurse can provide the patient with the required amount of care and
treatment. The development of biologic, social, and psychological theories of ageing attempts
to understand, explain and explore the various dimensions of ageing. These theories of ageing
are used as a guide to develop a holistic nursing theory for practice application when caring
for the elderly. The application of the Maslow’s motivational theory can be linked to the
process of aging. The nurses can link the need of love and belongingness to the treatment of
the adults. Maslow says that the adults who are staying alone or away from their children try
to overcome loneliness and alienation emotions. This includes providing love, affection and
feeling of belonging as well as getting it. Here it is the duty of the nurse to identify such
emotional crisis in the older population and to provide them with care and assurance (Kaur
2013).
2. a) The rights and responsibilities of older persons do not diminish with age, and
they can enjoy the same rights to freedom, respect and to be treated fairly, regardless of their
physical and mental capacities to use their rights. Enrolled nurses can support the older
persons through demonstrated knowledge and skills nursing care, and facilitate them in
exercising their autonomy, their lifestyle, and respecting their choices (McManus et al. 2015).
Every year, the elderly experience violations of human rights, ranging from discrimination
and social and political exclusion, abuse in nursing facilities, negligence in humanitarian

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environments, and rejection and rationing of the healthcare. Healthcare services should strive
at maintaining integrity and autonomy and minimizing patient distress. The literature
indicates that in healthcare environments, both the dignity and autonomy of the elderly are
often undermined (Gilligan and Weinstein, 2014). Dignity is questioned mainly by adverse
interactions between employees and patients, a lack of respect for the privacy of patients, and
a common insensitivity to an elderly population's requirements and wishes. If patients are not
offered appropriate data or the chance to fully comprehend their diagnosis and make
informed decisions about their care, autonomy is endangered. In specific, older individuals
are readily disabled in healthcare environments (Hepburn et al. 2015).
b) The Aged Care Act establishes the principles relating to the environment, care and
management of elderly people, including funding, access and scope of aged care services,
Mandatory Reporting for abuse and neglect and supporting the rights to services of the
elderly people. The role of the enrolled nurse is to work with the patients as well as the other
healthcare professionals to provide the nursing care and also to promote safe working
environment in areas such as administering medication and behavioural management, health
emergency responses, and infection prevention and controls (Connolly et al. 2014). It is
important for the nurses and the allied professionals to have knowledge of the relevant acts as
then they will be able to educate the elderly about the services that are available which they
can avail in order to get better healthcare services. This can be helpful for the nurses’ to have
a patient centered approach towards the patients. This will also strengthen the bond between
the nurses and the patients along with improving the knowledge of the nurses. Apart from the
Aged Care Act, 1997 there are a number of other acts that are related to the aged care in
Australia (Kaine and Ravenswood 2013). These acts involve the Aged Care (Transitional
Provisions) Act 1997, Aged Care (Accommodation Payment Security) Act 2006, Aged Care