Reflection Assignment 2022

Running head: REFLECTION
Reflection
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1REFLECTION
Introduction
Patients with diverse illness present with unique symptoms and issues and health care
professionals have the duty to adequately respond to their unique needs and maintain dignity
during care too. However, health care professional’s experience regarding caring for dementia
patient shows that they struggle to meet the needs of dementia patient and maintain dignity of
patients. This paper provides a reflection on the experience of the issues and future plans to
resolve the issue in professional practice.
Reporting
The article by Houghton et al. (2016) gave idea about the health care staff’s experience of
caring for people with dementia in the acute setting. In response to caring for dementia patient,
the staffs reported that providing care to dementia was difficult because of lack of appropriate
environment for care, poor emphasis on education and low staffing levels. In busy and stressful
environment, the capacity of staffs to provide appropriate care was found to be low. Boltz et al.
(2015) supports that hospitalized patients with dementia have special needs and health care
workers need specific knowledge related to nutrition, agitation, pain, hygiene, communication
and spiritual care to improve health of such patients.
Responding
After looking at the experience of staffs regarding dementia care, I feel distressed by the
situation of the health care professionals. As the dementia patient gets very aggressive
sometimes, I understand how difficult it must be for clinicians or nurse to manage aggressive
patient as well as balance the values of dignity and respect. I observed from one of the response
that restraint was commonly used by staffs to control challenging behavior of such patient. I