Supporting Individuals Through Significant Life Events

This report discusses the impact of significant life events on individuals and their families, focusing on pregnancy and road accidents. It explores the physical, emotional, social, and economic impacts of these events and the support provided by healthcare professionals. The report also highlights the role of voluntary and statutory agencies in supporting individuals through these life events.

SUPPORTING
INDIVIDUALS THROUGH
SIGNIFICANT LIFE
EVENTS

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
LO1..................................................................................................................................................3
P1: Impact of Significant Life Events on an Individual..............................................................3
P2: Impact of Significant Life Event on Individual’s Family and Social Network.....................5
LO2..................................................................................................................................................6
P3: Support Provide to Individuals..............................................................................................6
P4: Role of Healthcare or Care Assistant in Providing Support..................................................8
LO3..................................................................................................................................................9
P5: Relationship Between Organisational Policies and Practical Support..................................9
LO4................................................................................................................................................11
P6: Period of Appropriate Support............................................................................................11
P7: Referral Processes Available to Support.............................................................................12
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................13
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................14

INTRODUCTION
Social health care organisation and many other organisations which work in social
welfare always takes various steps towards providing a happy and healthy zone to different
people. Currently many organisations within the United Kingdom are running different activities
in public or social welfare which supports to a person who is suffering from any sickness and
significant life events. These steps of social healthcare organisations are too favourable for an
individual. Currently NHS (National Health Service) is one most popular organisations within
the UK which effectively conducts various activities towards creating a happy and healthy zone
for people. Currently local government within different countries are encouraging to people to
start such organisations which will provide better health conditions to people. Government of the
UK also promotes and support those organisations which can provide proper health to different
people. This report discusses ways to support individuals through two significant life events
called pregnancy and road accident. Various policies and practices also has mentioned in this
report which support to pregnant woman and victim of road accident Some major actions also
have discussed in this report which different organisations provides to woman who is suffering
from pregnancy and road accident victim.
LO1
P1: Impact of Significant Life Events on an Individual
I as a healthcare provided once looked after a pregnant lady who never initially thought
that pregnancy would become such a significantly life defining event for her and have such an
immense impact on her as an individual. But after the ordeal was over, she was truly a changed
person who understood the significance and impact pregnancy can have on any woman, whether
she is prepared for the experience or unprepared. Though she was lucky enough by God’s grace
to come out of such a significant life defining event, having a positive experience and my baby
being born safely, she can now understand the pain and heartache of couples and their relatives
who unfortunately face complications during pregnancy and have to endure negative experience
(World Health Organization, 2016). Thankfully, she had the help of extremely capable

healthcare providers who looked after all of her healthcare needs and a loving family who also
took immense care of her during such a precarious period of pregnancy.
I also provided care to a male who had suffered damages and broken his hand in a car
accident Pregnancy and the car accident became such a significant life event in both their lives
and affected them in various different ways:
Physical Impact: Pregnancy had immense impact on the lady’s personal physique in addition to
the traditional vomiting and sickness. During the later months of her pregnancy period, she was
asked by me, her healthcare professional to remain completely bid ridden, which had a massive
impact on her physically. Though by then her belly had grown a significant amount, she still
enjoyed taking occasional walks, which was now advised against and her family wouldn’t allow
her any kind of physical exercise or even remote exertion out of fear of numerous complications
that might arise. Though she now realises this was necessary, pregnancy made her quite
physically lethargic and the inactivity also bored me immensely. But she was also exclusively
given nutritious food, which ultimately helped by body cope with the demands of pregnancy.
The male recovering from car crash was also bed ridden for a long time, with his hand plastered.
This also made him very lethargic and impatient due to his inability to move from bed.
Emotional Impact: Pregnancy also had significant impact on the lady’s emotional and mental
wellbeing. This was also a lot due to how ignorant and unprepared she was for the life defining
event that is pregnancy in a woman’s life. During the starting months, she was quite scared about
every little change in her body and had to call up me for now seemingly obvious symptoms as
she had absolutely no idea how her body was supposed to react to such a change (de Masi and
et.al., 2017). During the middle months of pregnancy, she had constant mood changes where she
would snap back at her friends and husband for no reason only to apologise profusely and cry
one hour later for her rude behaviour. All this also added to the stress of being pregnant which
was emotionally taxing for her. The male also became quite depressed as his car had completely
been destroyed in the car crash, which was a gift from his late father. He became a recluse for
few weeks as he coped with the trauma.
Social and Economic Impact: During the later stages of the lady’s pregnancy when she was
asked to remain bed ridden, she had immense issues with the loss of her independence which

only subsided after guidance from her mother. Though thankfully her family and she were
financially secure to get her through this significant life event, it still to this day amazes her just
how significant an impact pregnancy can have on one financially (Tunçalp and et.al., 2017). One
thing she ended up enjoying was meeting new mothers and asking them for advice on how she
should operate in such a delicate period, which was highly informative for her and also allowed
her to create friends. Contrastingly, The recovery was a costly process for the male, as he had
little disposable personal income. He had to take loans from his relatives which depressed him
even further.
Intellectual Impact: Through pregnancy, the lady’s complete understanding of the hardships and
pain a woman can face changed dramatically. Coming out of pregnancy she was not just
immensely proud of herself for being able to endure such hardships, but was also proud of her
mother and all woman in general who have to go through such a difficult period, sometimes even
alone without much care. The male on recovery gained new appreciation for road safety laws and
vowed to never drive above the speed limit, understanding its significance.
P2: Impact of Significant Life Event on Individual’s Family and Social Network
As pregnancy and the car crash became such a significant life event not just for both the
lady and the male but also for their family, friends and social network, it ended up having a
major impact on their lives, roles and responsibilities as well.
Impact on Family: Through all the pain and hardships, joy and excitement that the lady now
believe pregnancy to be, her family was always with her, by her side, providing their unyielding
and eternal support to her, guiding her through the phases of pregnancy and making her feel
proud, even when she wasn’t feeling good about herself. Her husband was a constant pillar that
she leaned against and took care of her every need, requirement, whim or even brattish demands
even at the cost of his job sometimes (Braun and et.al., 2017). The patience with which the
husband sometimes took care of her deepened their bond and proved that he would make just as
good a father as he was a husband. She also heavily relied on her mother’s guidance too during
later stages, when she moved in with the lady to provide help and support to them. Her
pregnancy I think had the same impact on her as on her mother, as she too constantly worried
about the lady’s and her baby’s health and went out of her way to provide pregnant lady with
every comfort imaginable. The male was also frequently visited by his wife, but also missed her

a lot as she had to work and wasn’t always available. Though in the end it was only through the
help of the wife that he could cope with the accident and recover.
Impact on Friends: The lady’s friends also felt major impact in their lives due to her pregnancy,
her close friends and neighbours always made themselves available for any little requirement and
many times came over to entertain and cheer her up during the later stages of her pregnancy. Her
friends gifted her a lot of useful equipment that new parents would require as a gesture of how
much they cared, which affected her deeply. Pregnancy ended up deepening the bonds she had
with her friends. The male also had a vibrant friend circle one of whom was always present with
him as his wife had work. This was surprising for the male who upon recovery gave a grand
celebration to his friends, thanking them for their role in his recovery.
Impact on Social Network: When the lady told her working colleagues that she was pregnant
during my third month and was given maternity leave for the rest of the period, she was surprised
at how much they cared for her and wanted to help (Gold and et.al., 2016). Many of her co-
workers took time out of their lives to come visit her in hospital and later during her delivery in
an effort to cheer her up and to provide her with any help required. This made her realise just
how lucky she was to have such good social network. The male’s professional colleagues also
visited quite often to check on his progress and recovery. This made him realise the importance
of the professional interpersonal relationships he had forged and made him value his co-workers
even more who would take time out of their lives to visit him.
LO2
P3: Support Provide to Individuals
Various external voluntary and statutory agencies that provide support to individual so that
they can spend their life effectively and enhance their living standard. Voluntary organisation
provides various social services as their will to support individual’s life events whereas statutory
agencies are formed by government to provide necessary and basic services to support various
life events of individual. Social welfare agency are part of voluntary that provide large amount of
devices to enhance living standard of people by providing various support such as financial,
mental and behaviour support (Cour, 2019). In case of pregnant lady there are various voluntary

organisations that provide mental health support that helps in effective development and growth
of child. Behaviour support provide by such voluntary organisation helps in formation of
behaviour and nature of child and its mother by emotional supporting to think positive and
behave in particular manner. There are various local support groups that provide appropriate
strategies and plan that support pregnant lady to stay health and fit for overall growth and
development of child. This local support group provide various financial and other issues related
advice to support pregnant lady so that it can manage all its work and stay health and fit to give
birth to new child. Children and family services are some of the voluntary organisation that
support development and growth of family in good environment by providing various necessary
commodities (Huggins, 2020). Such organisation by providing support to families and growth of
children helps in economic development and growth of country. Voluntary agencies also support
people that they have lost their hand and leg in car accidents by provide consultant and food so
that they can live their life. Due to loss of hand individual is not able to get a job so social worker
provides such opportunity that it can used to earn a living for himself and its family. Such
financial and emotional support for social worker helps individual to take various initiative to
live a better life independently.
Whereas statutory agencies are responsible to provide various essential services in order to
support life of various people for economic growth and development of country. Such
organisation supervises and monitors various activities that are happening within society to uplift
living standard of people. Statutory agencies offer various services as per laws of government to
support various individual life events. Health consultant provides advice to pregnant lady that it
needs to follow for better health and growth of child. Counsellor guide pregnant lady to avoid
specific things and to follow certain rules, instruction for safety and security and better growth of
child. Specialist nurses in statutory agencies are essential to render qualitative services to
pregnant lady and for better health of individual and child (Cuny, 2017). Dieticians services are
also offered in statutory agencies that can be used by pregnant to maintain appropriate diet and
health of child. Such services help in overall growth and development of child as appropriate
nutrition and diet is followed by lady thus it is important services that support individual life
events. Psychologist by using its expertise knowledge and skills is able to provide qualitative
services and support to pregnant lady by changing its behaviour, attitude to stay strong and
health. Therefore, it can be illustrated that various statutory and voluntary agencies through

offering different types of services to people helps in supporting individual life incident and
improving living standard of people. Health consultant can helps individual to increase its
immune power by in taking proper nutrition so that it can perform various function. Specialist
nurse help in providing special treatment to individual and proper take care of people that have
lost its hand in an accident. Psychologist help in providing mental support to individual that have
not only lost hand but hope to live so such services are knows as statutory that are provide by
government for health and safety of individual and support individual life events.
P4: Role of Healthcare or Care Assistant in Providing Support
Health care is considered as among the crucial sector in business environment. Health
care and health care assistant play the following role in supporting health care of individual’s in
society.
Provide cure: Healthcare and healthcare assistant play huge role in curing the patients
influenced with any disease. Providing cure is among the primary role involved in healthcare
services. Based on the cure process of pregnant women health care and other patients like road
accident cater all the needs related to cure of the patient (Kiwanuka and et.al., 2019). Providing
cure involve regular checkups, addressing tablets of the women and other essential requirements
involved in the health care of the patients.
Maintaining hygiene: Health care process also require a proper maintenance of the hygiene
surrounded to the patient. Healthcare assistant play huge role in maintain the hygiene in
surrounded to the patient. This is an important part of the treatment process of patient.
Physical examination: Physical examination is also an important functional role involve in the
health care process related to patients like pregnant women and road accidents. Physical
examination involves analysing all the symptoms address by patient, effects of medicines,
improvement in health of patient and other respective physical examinations. This is an
important part of the health care and health care assistant job role. Physical examination is an
important part of the cure process of the patient. In the time of treatment for pregnancy women’s
and road accident patient face plenty of issues physically and at the mental level as well. Health
care team needs to address all the issues of patient in order to providing proper cure to patient.

Physical examination also influences all stages of the treatment process of women during
pregnancy.
Personal care: In the entire cure process it is crucial that pregnant women and road accident
patients are treated at personal level. Health care assistant play huge role in addressing patients
all the time in the cure process. Assistant needs to involve at personal level all the time so that
treatment can be conducted efficiently (Zhou and et.al., 2018). Personal care also involves
dealing with the emotional intelligence of the women in the period of pregnancy and cure
process of road accident patient. Many times patients feel uncomfortable due to mental and
emotional reasons especially in case of pregnancy and road accidents. All the health care
assistant play huge role in controlling the patient both physical and emotional level.
Provide moral support: Health care assistant also play huge role in providing moral support to
women’s in the time of pregnancy and road accident. This is also a crucial functional role of
health care assistant. In the period of pregnancy women’s face and patient involved in road
accidents many emotional phases which requires emotional support from the medical treatments
and doctors. By providing support at mental level women’s get strength to deal with all the pain
and also the emotional issues.
Regular feedbacks: Healthcare assistant play huge role in providing regular reports to the
doctors on the situation of the women over pregnancy and road accident patients. This is an
important part of the job role of the healthcare assistant. Regular feedbacks involve giving
regular updates about the situation of patient and also the treatment process.
All the above roles consider as the crucial role healthcare and healthcare assistant play.
LO3
P5: Relationship Between Organisational Policies and Practical Support
There is great relationship between organisational policies and practical support. For
example; NHS has passed different policies and rules and regulations for those women who are
suffering from pregnancy (Ismail and et.al., 2019). Pregnancy is really serious concern, because
woman become very sensitive in her time period of pregnancy. On this situation, each social

health care organisation is responsible to create or develop some productive policies for a
pregnant woman. On the other side, society is also responsible to follow each policy in practical
life, because these steps will make happy to pregnant woman. For example; a woman is working
in a store, in this situation top-level management of that store should provide a specific
relaxation to that woman in her time period of pregnancy. The management is highly responsible
to follow each policy in practical life which to different healthcare organisations has passed in
welfare of pregnant woman. Many policies have created for a victim of road accident as well.
For example; when a person faced road accident, then social healthcare organisations provides
them free ambulance services and appropriate treatment.
Currently government of the United Kingdom has passed special legal and ethical
considerations in the favour of pregnant woman. NHS is also a small governing body, so each
people, company and business is responsible to follow such all laws, policies and regulations
practically which developed and passed in welfare of pregnant woman (Etilé and et.al., 2017).
Currently many commercial organisations are systematically following these policies and
regulations in their workplace. For example; they provide separate toilet facilities to pregnant
woman. These organisations provide leave facility to pregnant woman in her last four months of
pregnancy. On the other side, people help to that person in practical life who faced road accident.
These practices of local people and healthcare organisation are symbol of humanity. These are
some major examples which completely shows an effective relationship between organisational
policies and practical support.
There is proper literacy is very necessary for creating a safe and healthy environment for
a pregnant woman. Currently most people in the United Kingdom are fully literate, that why
these people always promotes different productive policies in welfare of pregnant woman. There
is consideration of these policies in practical life is too necessary, because through consideration
the whole society can easily make a safe and secure zone for pregnant woman (Koskinen, 2016).
Both social healthcare organisations and society highly need to properly fulfil their
responsibilities. For example; social healthcare always responsible to develop different policies
in welfare of pregnant woman and victim of road accident. On the other side, people within
society are highly responsible to follow and adhere those policies in practical life. These factors

contribute in building an effective relationship between organisational policies and practical
support.
LO4
P6: Period of Appropriate Support
Currently most organisations, companies and businesses are trying to create a happy and
healthy work culture woman. In this situation, when any woman suffers from her time period of
pregnancy, then most organisations always provide appropriate support to that woman. For
example; currently many companies and organisations has mentioned in their policies that,
existing company provide a decided to leisure time period or leave to that woman who is
suffering from pregnancy (Buys, 2017). These all steps of different companies and organisations
are too favourable in the terms of providing a happy and healthy environment to a pregnant
woman. This is a major responsibility to society for playing an effective role in proving
appropriate support to a pregnant woman in her time period of pregnancy. In appropriate support,
society is able to provide various facilities to pregnant woman. Suppose a pregnant woman is
travelling through a common public transport bus, but she can’t able to take a seat because of
high rush. In this situation, people who also traveling with that woman in bus are highly
responsible to arrange a vacant seat for pregnant woman. Many times different people use own
vehicles to take road accident victim to nearest hospital. If people always take such steps in their
personal life, then they will able to show high standard of their humanity.
Provide appropriate support to pregnant woman and road accident victim is one of the
most important tasks to society. People within society are responsible to make feel happy and
comfortable to a pregnant woman and a person who faced road accident. Currently various
appropriate ways are available to a person for support to that woman and victim. For example;
Many times people within European countries start to sing a song for making comfortable and
happy to a pregnant woman. These all steps which many times people take are too favourable to
a pregnant woman (Hansen and Brott, 2016). A person should understand this little thing that, a
woman become very sensitive in her time period of pregnancy. On the other side, many times
person get mentally unstable due to road accident. That’s everyone within society need to avoid
such activities in the front of pregnant woman and victim of road accident which can put

negative impact on them. People around pregnant woman should stop to that woman for thinking
negative thoughts, because sometimes negative thoughts will put negative impact on baby of that
woman. This is our prime responsibility that provide appropriate support to woman in her time
period of pregnancy.
P7: Referral Processes Available to Support
Currently a social health care organisation is able to able to run various processes for
supporting a woman in her time period of pregnancy and a person who has faced road accident.
Many social healthcare organisations mostly develop various productive policies in welfare of
pregnant woman and accident victim, in which these steps of organisations are also a part of
processes. But many additional processes are still available which a social health care
organisation can run to provide more support to a pregnant woman. In many developed
countries, local health care organisations provide some specific meals to a pregnant to make
enable her for effectively dealing with pain of pregnancy (Warner and Sharp, 2016). In this
situation, NHS should also innovate or develop different processes towards creating a happy and
healthy environment for a pregnant woman and accident victim. On the other side, people within
society are also responsible to give respect to a pregnant woman in public place. They able to
choose many processes or ways to show their respect towards pregnant woman. For example;
many times people offer their seat to that woman in parks, streets and buses etc.
On the other side, social healthcare organisations within the United Kingdom need to run
different processes towards providing free treatment to pregnant women and road accident
victim. Currently many developed countries are running these processes, in which local
government should also employ these processes in own country. Of course, many social
healthcare organisations, like; NHS are providing free treatment to many pregnant women, but
not in effective manner. Local government of the UK need to promote, encourage and support
different social healthcare organisations for providing free treatment to a pregnant woman in
effective manner (George, 2017). These processes will contribute in making such environment
within country, where a woman can easily complete her time period of pregnancy. When existing
social health care organisations are running these innovative processes towards creating healthy
environment for a pregnant woman and a victim of road accident, then they these processes of

organisations promotes humanity within whole country. At the end, the United Kingdom will
able to present its extra-ordinary and effective image in all around the world.
CONCLUSION
It can be concluded that there are different social healthcare organisations, commercial
organisations and people within society are highly responsible to create a happy and healthy
environment for a woman who is suffering from her time period of pregnancy, and also for
victim of road accident. By doing such activities in welfare of that woman and victim,
organisations and people will able to show their high level of humanity. Government of the
United Kingdom should give additional support to those organisations which always works for
providing special and productive treatment to a pregnant woman and an accident victim.
Currently various innovative ways are available to people which they can choose for making
comfortable and happy to that woman who is suffering from pregnancy, and also to person who
faced road accident. People within society need to follow those all policies in practical manner
which different social healthcare organisations has passed in the welfare of pregnant woman and
road accident victim.

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