Supporting Individuals through Significant Life Events

Life events are based on their importance in moulding people's lives. Any event or occurrence will be altered, whether positive or negative, gainful or lossful, but after that, people will change and their personalities will be in some way impacted. The documentary is centred on Supporting Individuals in their life when they are going through substantial transformations and personal growth.

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ICON College of Technology and Management
Department of Health and Social Care
BTEC HND in HealthCare Practice
Coursework
Supporting Individuals through Significant Life
Events
Unit 22
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INTRODUCTION
Life event is based on the significant in reshaping the life of individuals. It will change any
event or occurrence, gain and loss, positive and negative but after that individuals get
changed and personality that is somehow affected. The documentation is based on the
individuals when they are experiencing significant changes and development in their lives.
It is important when they are not supported or given proper guideline which may break
down negative effects on society or community. The report will discuss about the impact of
unexpected and expected significant life event on the individuals at different stages of their
lives and ages. Furthermore, it also pinpoints the response of different groups at the time
of events. Apart from that it stresses and put efforts to analysis of how health, social care
companies provide support to individual person through experiencing, life event situations.
Furthermore, it will describe about how to compare between statutory, voluntary and
external agencies support in the individuals through their life events. The role of health
care assistant in providing appropriate support to individuals as group and perhaps as a
team. However, it will analyse the relationship between the organizational policies that
applied in practical aspects with health care setting, in order to address their life event
experiencing. At last, it will investigate the referral processes available to support
individual and identify effects on social networks through significant life event.
1. Case Study of rape and abortion
It was in June 2004, at age 14, Joan became pregnant from a date rape. She tried to hide
it from her parents, but they soon got to know due to unusual early morning nap,
reluctance to wake up early, slow reaction among other signs and symptoms of early or
the first trimester of pregnancy. The thought of missing College attendance, the need to
support the foetus that was in doubt whether it will eventually form or become a baby
occupied her mind.
With this constant thought and the inability to concentrate, Joan decided to visit the GP
Surgery to seek advice on abortion.
It was not quite long the abortion was over, it felt like her womb was being plucked out of
place and ripped apart, it was terrifyingly degrading and dehumanising. After the
procedure, Joan enquired from the doctor, ‘’What was the baby’s sex?’’ The doctor
answered, ‘’it is not certain what it was because it came out in pieces.’’
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It was hard to come to terms with the impact of the abortion, Joan resorted to prostitution,
engaged in indiscriminate and unprotected sexual intercourse with men and slept with
whoever requested for sex without questioning. Each month Joan was either pregnant or
in deep but unexplained depression.
Soon, Joan dropped out of College and became defiant, but tried several times to kill
myself but was not courageous enough to put the rope around her neck, tried
unsuccessfully to get sleeping tablets from the counter and later resorted to heavy
alcoholic beverage consumption.
After few months, Joan got married to a man who perhaps was driven by the need to have
a child knowing well that her parents are not likely to disagree with this decision. Joan had
five children out of nine pregnancies but was shortly advised to quit having children by her
doctor because of the attendant risk to her life.
Reflecting on this unexpected events, Joan finds it difficult to forgive herself, her mum and
dad who insisted that the abortion was the right thing to do after all and have no regrets
but decided to join the a local Charity organisation counselling as she constantly
struggles to overcome her guilt and depression.
2. Case Study: Car Accident.
FH was a retired train driver at 62 who started working at age16 until retirement. FH looks
forwarding to self-employment and working on his own post retirement, as a result he
visits the local food store to acquire additional experience towards self-employment, he
also looks forward to working on his own inside his garden admiring his work.
On Thursday 15th September 2011 all these aspirations and visions evaporate and came
to a halt with the potential that it may not be possible to engage in physically demanding
activities for a long time or never again.
When FH was driving along Angel Road, a young drunken driver crashed and hit his car. It
was a day that eventually changed his life and those of his relatives, friends and
neighbours. FH was lucky to escape from the accident alive, the fire men cut through his
car to remove him to nearby waiting ambulance and taken to the A&E, soon on arrival the,
the surgeon did not waste time to identify that FH has had an internal bleeding and would
need an immediate abdominal surgery. FH remained in the Hospital for a while supported
by his wife, children and three grandchildren, they were not able to hide the grief on their
faces it was terrifying, they all supported FH with encouraging words.
Few hours later, additional x-ray scan revealed further damages to the upper vertebra, FH
was intubated, bandaged around the neck to restrict his movement, he had plastic surgery
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to reset the two broken upper limb bones, the doctor noticed some swellings on his lower
limbs, X-rays later revealed a badly bruised and seriously dislocated left foot.
FH was supported by Health Care Assistants in the hospital during this period while
suffering from excruciating pain and they did everything possible to relieve the discomfort.
He returned home after two weeks and supported by friends and occasionally by
neighbours. Initially, FH experienced insomnia and cried sometimes uncontrollably, his
doctor prescribed antidepressant due to post traumatic stress disorder.
FH was later advised to visit the physiotherapy Unit for support to engage in physical
exercises and to strengthen his spine for about two months.
FH recalled being on his way to one of his friend’s birthday party when the accident
occurred, this made his friend to blame himself for the discomfort experienced by FH. He
felt guilty but reminded him that it was the fault of the drunken driver.
This unexpected experience hangs around every day and perhaps for the rest of his lives.
Describe the impact of unexpected and expected significant life event on
individuals at different ages, stages.
Life event is an experience that can be considered in both expected and unexpected. it
can have either positive as well as negative impact on the overall lifestyle of individuals.
As a result, they are significantly affected by different events (Koo Andersson and Tydén,
2020). The unexpected and expected event can be formed when it may be moving in the
wrong directions. In this way, it can be relating to relevant individuals that they are able to
identify the impact of different events (Friedman and et.al., 2020). On the other hand, it
also recognizes that effects on the individual lives in significant manner. The effect can be
divided into different groups: social, physical and psychological.
The expected life events are those that individuals either look forward to or planned for it
to happen. For instance, physical and physiological changes such as ageing, puberty and
menopause are all expected life events.
The unexpected life events are those that surprised individuals as they are not completely
aware that it could happen. It can be said that they are unplanned. For example,
unexpected death or car accident, incidents at work which could eventually lead to job loss
or unemployment, fire hazards, socio-political events such as Manchester Bombing Arena
and sudden ill health of loved ones are typical of unexpected life events.
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For instance, it has been identified that events such as Pregnancy is a situation
considered as both painful and joyous. The reason behind the situation where concern
about female in proper support. She can enjoy their own moment of childbirth and handle
the unbearable pain easily (Seiler, Fagundes and Christian, 2020).
The physical pain that must be experienced by women in extreme level often has
significant impact on their entire life span. At the time of pregnancy, A women faces a lot
of pain and they often have massive physical impact on them. (Obst, Due and Middleton,
2020). It is very important for individuals or professionals surrounding women to provide
certain comfort or minimal support so that they can easily cope with pain. There are lot of
problem faced such as extensive pain, back aches. Another type of physical pain
experienced by pregnant women and recognized are fatigue issues. It is the most
common issue among women. Sometimes, they feel exhausted, tired or drained which
may eventually develop into insomnia, depression and Schizophrenia among other mental
health problems.
Similarly, Pregnancy may be considered an event subject to situation, experienced at
different stages or various age groups. Sometimes, it directly affects the mental health of
women due to changes in the hormonal secretions into the body. It is normal that women
may become irritable, sad and depressed. In this way, it is mainly symptomatic of the brain
functionality. As a sense, Pregnancy would also have effect on the mental status and
experience significant changes in their thinking styles (Clemens, Dibben and Shortt,
2020). On the other hand, emotional disturbance is the most common at the time of
pregnancy where they get emotional at same time. These types of changes occur in the
women mental condition. In most cases, it is very difficult to handle or manage them. As
per analysis, it has concluded that significant life event relates to pregnancy effects on the
mental as well as physical condition. It also identified that pregnant women bear both
psychological and physical effects in their lifetime.
Describe about the impact of different significant life event on individual’s family,
friends and wider social networks.
The significant life event has become increased challenges in the individuals lives so as
important to concern about individuals’ people like FH, give support and other necessary
help from family or friends. These people play an important role for providing emotional
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support to individuals. They can undergo such significant life events with proper comfort
and ease (Seiler, Fagundes and Christian, 2020). These supports would be crucial for
individuals where they can face any type of situation and overcome the same. Therefore,
A pregnant woman needs support from their family members, friends, social contacts and
the larger community to soften the impact of events on individuals whilst encouraging to
take control of their lives once again. With appropriate supports in place the foetus is given
adequate protection and a higher degree of chances of survival to be born alive without
birth defects.
Apart from that it is not wrong to say that some of important people who will provide extra
support and aids to women with her family (Flouri, Francesconi and Lewis, 2020). They
are giving positive response towards pregnant women otherwise it may turn into negative
ways. So as necessary to show positive attitude, behaviour in front of pregnant women. In
families, parents and husband who will be happier and more excited. In such cases, they
can extend every kind of care, support and ensure that all occur with positive outcome.
Similarly, friends also play important role for individual life where they can provide support
for women as they also wish in future. They are always aiming to make pregnant women
happy, whilst providing both physical and emotional support. There are more chances
where family members become highly worried and stressed because of pregnant women
handling (Koo Andersson and Tydén, 2020). They can try to keep and maintain healthy
environment free from other kind of pressure or stress. Because there are lot of chances
where women may become stressed and irritable due to hormonal changes.
In normal cases, the response to pregnancy would be positive and show the sign of
excitement. In this way, family member would take steps and ensure that women become
safe, healthy and happy. It also analysed that response of family members towards
pregnancy could be mixed with proportion of same which belonging to positive responses
(Obst, Due and Middleton, 2020). In this way, it can go life event towards good attitude
and assume it is to be good situation.
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Differentiate how different types of external voluntary and statutory agencies
support individuals through significant life events.
The significant life event related Pregnancy in case where they can influence the care
users, but they also affect individuals, who will provide essential health care services
(Seiler, Fagundes and Christian, 2020). thus, Significant life event have become
prominent influence over health care workers and other practitioners which provides better
and appropriate care to individual. This is the main reason to understand how healthcare
worker affects pregnancy event (Tian and Solomon, 2020).
It has been observed that health care professionals support and develop personal
relationship with patient in order to solve problems for example like Joan and FH cases.
External voluntary agencies support Women in their Pregnancy life event.
As per given case studies, care setting health organization have developed appropriate
policies and procedures to support individuals within their significant life events ( Seiler,
Fagundes and Christian, 2020). The external voluntary agency such as WHO guidelines
and make provision for proper management of health care services. This provides the
opportunity to analyse the strength and weaknesses of Agency Policies and Procedures
on how to manage or treat pregnant women during childbirth. It helps them to maintain
comfortable and normal daily activities.
Higher authorities of WHO that have developed different treatment plan for handling
pregnant women with other complication. Because the primary reason is to alleviate their
problem and monitor movement activity of child on regular basis (Armengaud. and
Simeoni, 2020). Sometimes, WHO can be divided into three different treatment steps:
psychological, care giving and pharmaceutical. Initially, agency provides different kind of
medicine which have been developed to maintain overall activities. Another option is
psychological intervention method. It is the most common approach that required for
pregnant women because at that time there are lots of hormonal changes in body. As A
Result, they can directly impact on physical as well as mental condition (Harries, Nicholas
and Mohan, 2020). This method is simulating the different part of brain. Another step is
normal care which provides support to pregnant women. There will be no medicine or
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intervention technique used because it only gives routine check-up, care. Therefore, it
helps for controlling mood swings, attitude and behaviour.
Statutory agencies support Women in their Pregnancy life event.
Many statutory agencies such as NHS that have established the view to support
individuals who have different condition and situation. The agency may consider the prime
bodies that provide better services and facilities. The primary objective is to generate
awareness among people about the different kind of complications during pregnancy
(Seiler, Fagundes and Christian, 2020). In this way, it helps for providing better services in
terms of curing and treating problem for individuals. The primary goal of NHS is to connect
with individuals and identify their significant life events. In order to connect with all those
individuals, bodies working for providing better service to patient. On the other hand, they
are increasing awareness about the assistive technologies that can be used to check
overall patient’s health. It helps them with much greater effective method to identify the
entire health conditions on every patient.
As per discussion, it concludes that both external voluntary and statutory agencies support
individuals through significant life events. It also provides the better facilities and services
required.
Role of healthcare or care assistant in providing support to individuals
There are a lot of changes which take place in a patient who is pregnant and taking care
of them is difficult. There is a physical change and a mental change in the patient which is
going through the stages of pregnancy (Charlton and et.al., 2018). There are a frequent
mood change in the person who is pregnant which have to be controlled and if not then
they must get what they wish to have so that they do not have stress because that can
affect the baby. There is depressive, exhaustion, fatigue, excitement, anxiety and other
emotions all together in the person who is going through this stage.
Roles of healthcare or care assistant are very important and as follows:
Counselling
There is a lot of pressure on the women in pregnancy and having so many emotions at
one time can be very dangerous for which the healthcare has to be very certain as to the
patient should not go in depression (Huybrechts, Bateman and Hernández‐Díaz, 2019).
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There are a lot of complexity which can come when there is a sign of
depression ,therefore it is very essential for me as healthcare assistant to counsel the
patient and talk to find out what they are feeling so that they can be solved/help on time.
Gentle
There must be gentle environment which the healthcare has to provide the patient with so
that they cannot harm themselves or anyhow. There are a lot of factors which can be
dangerous for individuals when they are going through difficulty with any kind of health
issues, as a health care assistant I need to provide a safety place to support my patient
e.g. day centres, therapy counselling.
Diet control
The diet must be healthy, and no unhealthy food is allowed during pregnancy which must
be controlled by the healthcare so that the baby can get the right nutrition which is
required by the baby. During pregnancy there are a lot of cravings which the pregnancy
creates which must be controlled and the healthcare will have to make sure that they are
followed.
Patience/communication
There are a lot of changes in patient that has unexpected significant life event therefore it
is very important as a healthcare assistant to have the right knowledge on how to
communicate dealing with the situation and have a lot of patience so that the patient can
be comfortable around me (Olander and et.al., 2018). There are a lot of tantrums which
the patient will have therefore it is very essential for the healthcare to be sure of how to
handle them in these kinds of situations to achieve a desired outcome.
Regular check ups
Healthcare assistants l must make sure that the patient is getting regular check-up for
themselves so that they can have a healthier health and they can take care of their own
health. For example the case of Joan there is a lot of harm in place, which she need
regular check-ups on mother when give birth therefore there are medicines which are
prescribed by the doctor so as to reduce harm on the foetus as healthcare assistants my
expected to take good care of this condition.
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Relationship between organizational policies and practical support
There is great relationship between organizational policies and the practical support which
is available in health and care settings. For example, currently many health and care
organizations which specially works for women safety and security has formulated many
policies in women favour. In these policies, one policy is that if any woman is pregnant,
and she works in a company. In this situation, management of that organization is
responsible to take care of that woman in their workplace (Erens and et.al., 2017). Another
policy is, when that woman cross seven months of pregnancy, then her company needs to
offer leisure time for her. It is necessary for that pregnant woman, because in pregnancy
time a woman's body become very sensitive. In short, a social health care organization
can create a safe and secure zone for women by developing these policies.
On the other side, many health care organizations currently giving practical support also to
a pregnant woman. For example, organization's policy is to give leisure time to a pregnant
woman. In this case, many organizations, companies and businesses are giving leisure
time to a woman to relax in time of pregnancy. Currently many organizations have created
very supportive policies for pregnant women. In these policies they have made provision
for separate restroom to pregnant women, a nurse will be provided to that woman so she
can take care of her and give leisure time when needed or necessary. These are some
major practical support which many organizations have provided to a pregnant woman.
A pregnant woman feels very well when health care organizations provides this type of
positive treatment for her. When a health care organization make policies for welfare of
pregnant lady, that organization indirectly shows their high standard of humanity and care.
These policies are completely followed by people in different places. On the other side,
Tourism authority of the United Kingdom has presented a very favourable policy for
pregnant women. According to that policy, when pregnant woman travels in the public
transport. In this condition, other commuters are expected to make provision for
appropriate seat which had been earlier made available by the Transport for London (TFL)
this is often referred to as priority seats and no one except pregnant woman is allowed to
use these seats in that particular transport vehicle. Currently people in the United Kingdom
completely follow this policy in practical manner as well. This is a great initiative by the
tourism authority of this country (Cameron and et.al., 2016). In this case, people in this
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country practically give support to pregnant woman in public transport. Many literate
people in the UK always try to provide a happy and healthy environment to pregnant
women in public places.
In the United Kingdom, many other policies are also developed by different health and
care organizations. The main aim of these policies is to give an excellent care
environment to women in their time of pregnancy. Women are very satisfied with these
favourable policies, and they have expressed gratitude and have suggested that other
organisations to practically practice these Policies in their day to day activities. These
policies which organization has developed in welfare of pregnant woman are symbol of
humanity and literacy. Each person is necessarily needed to follow these policies in
practical life to create happy and healthy environment for pregnant women.
CONFIDENTIALITY POLICY
The model blueprints the prerequisites that must be met so as to give patients a private
help. Record holders must educate patients regarding the expected utilization of their
data, give them the decision to give or retain their assent just as shielding their
recognizable data from ridiculous revelations. These procedures are between connected
and ought to be progressing to help the improvement of a confidential service.
Confidentiality policy is gotten from Data Protection Act 1998. This Act gives a structure
that oversees the preparing of data that recognizes living people – individual information in
Data Protection terms. Handling incorporates holding, acquiring, recording, utilizing and
revealing of data and the Act applies to all types of media, including paper and pictures. It
applies to classified patient data however is far more extensive in its degree, for example it
additionally covers work force records.
The Data Protection Act 1998 forces imperatives on the preparing of individual data
comparable to living people. It distinguishes eight information insurance rules that set out
norms for data taking care of. This Act gives a structure that oversees the preparing of
data that recognizes living people – personal data2 in Data Protection terms. Preparing
incorporates holding, getting, recording, utilizing and uncovering of data and the Act
applies to all types of media, including paper and pictures. It applies to private patient data
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however is far more extensive in its degree, for example it additionally covers faculty
records.
Human Rights Act 1998 (HRA98)
Article 8 of the HRA98 sets up an option to 'regard for private and family life'. This
underscores the obligation to ensure the protection of people and safeguard the secrecy
of their wellbeing records. Current comprehension is that consistence with the Data
Protection Act 1998 and the customary law of secrecy ought to fulfill Human Rights
prerequisites.
Legislation generally must also be compatible with HRA98, so any proposition for putting
aside commitments of classification through legislation must:
a. seek after an authentic point;
b. be viewed as important in a popularity based society; and
c. be proportionate to the need.
WHISTLE BLOWING POLICY
This implies the detailing by representatives of suspected wrongdoing, illicit acts or
inability to act inside the Council.
The point of this Policy is to empower representatives and other people who have genuine
worries about any part of the Council's work to approach and voice those worries.
Workers are frequently the first to understand that there might be something truly wrong
inside the Council. 'Whistleblowing' is seen by the Council as a positive demonstration that
can make a significant commitment to the Council's effectiveness and long haul
achievement. It isn't backstabbing to associates or the Council to shout out. The Council is
focused on accomplishing the most noteworthy potential principles of administration and
the most elevated conceivable moral measures in open life and in the entirety of its
practices. To help accomplish these models it energizes the right to speak freely of
discourse.
The Policy is intended to guarantee that you can raise your interests about bad behavior
or negligence inside the Council unafraid of exploitation, consequent separation,
hindrance or excusal.
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It is additionally proposed to urge and empower you to raise genuine worries inside the
Council as opposed to disregarding an issue or 'blowing the whistle' outside.
This Policy aims to:
 encourage you to feel confident in raising serious concerns at the earliest opportunity
and to question and act upon concerns about practice
 provide avenues for you to raise those concerns and receive feedback on any action
taken
 ensure that you receive a response to your concerns and that you are aware of how to
pursue them if you are not satisfied
 reassure you that you will be protected from possible reprisals or victimisation if you
have made any disclosure in good faith.
Period of Support to an Individual and Family Affected by Significant Life Event
After an individual experience of a significant life event such as pregnancy in example
Joan case above is instructive, they and their close social network both require some
additional encouragement, funding and assistance from others in order keep functioning
whilst taking care of the child whether born or unborn. The mother who is pregnant
requires a lot of care and attention during the pregnancy period from her social circles and
requires constant care and help in order to get by their daily activities in such a difficult
period in their lives. As any accidents or mishaps during the pregnancy period can prove
fatal for the baby in the womb, utmost care and relaxation is advised by professionals to
be imparted on the pregnant woman during her entire nine months of pregnancy.
Pregnancy also takes a huge toll on the physical and mental wellbeing of new mothers
and their families and friends (Moore, Dietl and Coleman, 2016). As pregnancy puts high
amount of stress and pressure on the pregnant woman's body and lifestyle, she constantly
requires external support to help her get through for a period of time starting right from the
beginning of pregnancy to some period of time after the child has been safely born. The
support provided to pregnant mothers and their close social circles are as follows:
Mental Support: accident victim can also be supported by this approach for instance (FH)
was given anti dispenser after his accident. Joan was also help using this same method
through her pregnancy has a significant life event in the lives of most couples and families,
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the pregnant woman requires tremendous mental support not just from her family but from
the healthcare facilities in the area in order to ensure the safety and health of the unborn
baby. As mental stress on pregnant mother can impart adverse effects onto the unborn
child, families and friends in the close social circle need to create a positive atmosphere
around the pregnant woman and try to alleviate her of all problems and issues that might
be putting her under pressure or stress. During such significant life events, even a great
amount of stress and pressure is felt by the social circle of the pregnant woman trying to
make everything easy for her (Napso and et.al., 2018). It is imperative for pregnant
mother's family and friends to also look after each other’s mental wellbeing and to provide
each other mental support in their quest to better service the pregnant mother.
Babysitter: After pregnancy is over and the baby is born safe and healthy, the parent's
struggles are not over, on the other hand they are just beginning to emerge. After a baby
is born especially in cases where the baby is the first child to the parents, they require
tremendous guidance and help from others in their social circles to aid them in taking
proper care of the baby. As a new-born baby is extremely fragile and vulnerable to
infections, professional help is appreciated in the form of babysitters and nanny in order to
better support the parents in taking care of their newborn child. It can be especially helpful
to new parents to have their parents babysit for them so they can properly learn the
methods required to fulfil basic needs of a child, without giving up their new-born children
over to strangers.
Maternity and Paternity Leaves: Another major support new parent need in order to
effectively take care of their toddlers is the option to get paid maternity and paternity
leaves from their workplaces. Raising a newborn child is an expensive process for the
parents where a lot of new equipment and goods need to be bought to take care of the
child such as prams, toys, disinfected baby beds etc (Chou and et.al., 2018). Add all this
on top of having to take care of a child and having to do a traditional 9-5 job is close to
impossible for the parents. Therefore, a maternity or paternity leave from workplaces is a
major support to parents affected by such a significant life event.
Antenatal Team: An antenatal team consists of a combination of healthcare professional
such as midwives, paediatricians, obstetricians, anaesthetists and family nurses all of
which provide their services to people undergoing significant life event such as pregnancy.
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Professional Midwives provide great care and attention to pregnant woman taking care of
their every need in order to reduce their stress. Professional obstetricians are doctors who
specialise in taking care of pregnant woman's needs, requirements and issues faced and
are consulted during the entire pregnancy period by the mother and her social circles
(Cheng and et.al., 2016). Professional anaesthetists are consulted during later stages of
pregnancy to provide pain relief to mothers through anaesthetics. After the child has been
born parents also require the support of paediatricians who specialize in taking care of
babies and can identify and address any problems faced by the new-born baby.
Referral processes available to support an individual and their social networks
Referral process can be defined as the procedure which is used to resolve problems such
as safety issue, benefits risk balance of medicines or wide variety class of medicines.
Referral processes plays essential role because it improves and streamline
communication among primary physician, specialists as well as health providers involved
in a patient care (Clemens, Dibben and Short, 2020). Referral process is performed by
referral management system which is powerful techniques for health providers who track
patients care continuously. There are various referral procedures which are used to
support individual and their social network which is affected by pregnancy events. Role of
referral procedures in pregnancy events such as:
Primary care: Referral management system plays essential role in pregnancy event
because they support individual when they suffer from pregnancy event. Pregnancy is a
critical stage for women because it may lead to physical, mental and emotional stress for
individuals. This period requires high attention on health as well as support from the
community. Referral management system offer primary care to individual by providing
nursing services. Nursing staff do not only offer health care services as well as provides
formulary services which is required for pregnancy events. Pregnancy leads to physical
stress such as backache, headache, dizziness, mood swings and vomiting as well. This,
kind of issues can happen to individual during pregnancy event. On the other hand,
emotional stress involves feeling alone, mind disturbances due to personal issue etc.
where referrals process system involves several physician doctors who can take care of
individuals and address them about physical changes. Referral procedures involves
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medication services as well, physical stress can be treated by medication which is more
important for pregnant event. Referral procedure system involves pharmacist because
they have knowledge of which medicine to give to pregnant women. The main reason
behind is that medicine has various classes in which some classes can react to individual
or several can create life threatening condition for individual one.
So, this event requires specialist who can prescribe right medicine which gives positive
impact on pregnant event. Pharmacist helps pregnant event to provide pharmaceutical
compliance as per the requirement of situation (Flouri, Francesconi and Lewis, 2020).
Referrals procedure system involves psychiatrist for pregnancy event because pregnancy
leads to stress as well. Psychiatrist helps individual to resolve their issues which causes
stress in their health. Primary care consultant involves in referrals procedure system which
is aware of individual pregnancy complication which they can face while sleeping such as
stomach-ache, fever and fluctuation in blood pressure, resulting in general weakness of
the body. So, primary care consultant gives some technique for self-medication such as
use of icepacks to control the body temperature when it rises abnormally. Regular basic
exercise is the best option to reduce stress from body. It does not only lead to mental
stability but also keeps the body healthy. Such advice offers by consultant to individual
creates awareness about their health.
Social care: It is another approach which is used by referral procedure system. This
system involves family as well in pregnancy event so that they understand the significance
of pregnancy event and accident victim has showed in Joan and FH case respectively how
to give social care to them. Various charities like WHO promotes pregnancy events by
offering social care services like food, education, medication and financial supports to
them. Charity involve families so that individual doesn't feel alone. Pregnancy requires that
they are pampered by their family or others and wants to spend more time with them.
Hence, it is the main reason to involve family in this event which make them understand
what type of services they can provide to pregnancy event.
Antenatal care: it provides by referrals' procedure system to pregnant event because
most of the places across world doesn't have primary care services. So, it helps to offer
primary care services across the world by establishing primary health care facilities that
includes sub-health centres, primary health centres and community health centres as well
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as provides obesity care. The main goal to provide primary health care facilities to remote
places like rural area and country residents where primary care hospitals are neither
available nor provide primary care to pregnancy events.
Pregnant women receive positive impact of referral procedures because it provides health
care and social care services which is more crucial for them in pregnancy stage. Even
referrals system is aware of individuals on how to keep themselves stress free. While
nursing staff provides health care services and pharmacist offers pharmaceutical services
to them. Antenatal care also provides by referrals' management to various places across
the world so that pregnancy event gets primary care on time.
CONCLUSION
Some life events happening in the lives of people prove to be majorly significant in
shaping and restructuring the rest of their lives. Such significant life events affect people
and their close social circles in many ways and coping with them can become an arduous
task for them, if necessary external support is not received by them. In this report we firstly
assess the impact of unexpected and expected important life events on individual people
and their close social circles belonging to different ages and lifestyles. Then the report
compares the way in which external statutory and voluntary powers provide support to
individuals affected by significant life events, while discussing the wider role that
professional healthcare plays in supporting these individuals affected. The report then
goes on to evaluate the relation between the practical support received and the
organisational policies implemented that are available to individuals affected by
momentous life event. The report also assesses various supports and their time period
available to individuals and groups experiencing important life event. Finally, the report
analyses the referral processes that are present to support individuals and their social
circles who have been experiencing a momentous life event in their lives.
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