Clinical Project: Aged Care, Skill Development, and Patient Outcomes

This clinical project focuses on aged care, examining the relevance of the topic, the rationale behind its selection, and identified skill gaps within the field. The project outlines the main and different objectives, emphasizing the benefits of skill acquisition, and highlights past issues that prompted the need for enhanced skills. It provides findings to support the benefits of learning, details achievements, and discusses the implications of learning specific skills in the context of aged care. The project emphasizes the importance of interpersonal, nursing, and technical skills in providing effective care, improving patient outcomes, and ensuring a comfortable environment for elderly individuals. The conclusion summarizes the overall skills, practices, and policies that contribute to improving the comfort level of senior citizens.

Clinical Project

Table of Contents
• Introduction
• Relevance of aged care
• Reason behind selecting aged care
• Gaps in skills to encourage about gaining knowledge
• Main objective of the project
• Different objectives of the project
• Benefits of learning the skill
• Particular issue in past which encourage to learn specific skill
• Findings to support benefits of learning the skill
• Achievements of learning skill
• Implications of learning specific skill related to aged care
• Conclusion
• References

Introduction
• Aged care can be described as an effective system for providing
support and care to old age people to make their live more
comfortable.
• It includes to make of people comfortable to carrying out their daily
activities with ease and spend their lives by remaining well-being.

Relevance of aged care
• The aged care is very
important to be analysed in
order to gain knowledge about
more effective policies and
practices of welfare of senior
citizens.

Reason behind selecting aged care
• The reason behind analysing about care about old age people
because family members are not capable to support their elders then
it is necessary to focus on them in order to make their lives
comfortable.
• Basically it is essential for care professionals to acquire special skills
and capabilities to provide services for old people in order to reduce
their discomfort in daily living due to elderly weakness which
impacts negatively on daily living of them.

Gaps in skills to encourage about gaining
knowledge about them
• The appropriate skills are very important for care professionals in
terms of providing proper care services to senior citizens for making
their lives easy through improving their physical fitness and
wellbeing.
• It involves acquiring desired capabilities such as interpersonal,
nursing and technological skills which facilitate to render more
effective care facilities to old patients for their wellness.

Main objective of the project
• The main objective is to
provide an excellent patient
centred care for the aged
people and give excellent care
to them.

Different objectives of the project
• The number of selected objectives includes developing interpersonal
skills and becoming an expert in handling old aged people to
provide care.
• It is necessary to build effective interpersonal skills like
communication, active listening & positive attitude is helpful to
make patient feel comfortable with carer which impacts positively
on care procedure and related outcomes.

Benefits of learning the skill
• There are number of benefits can be achieved by gaining effective
skill such as perfection in work, improve patient outcomes and
reduce risk of mistakes in practices.
• It includes gaining technical skills in order to utilise innovative aids
& devices for supporting senior citizens for ensuring their better
health to make them comfortable.

Particular issue in past which encourage to
learn specific skill
• The lack of nursing and interpersonal skills create severe issue in
past which an old patient become angry and did not convinced to
take medications due to ignoring their opinions by staff.
• It is necessary to acquire interpersonal skill to understand actual
needs of patient and handle senior citizens in proper manner at the
time of providing proper care facilities respectively.

Findings to support benefits of learning the
skill
• Considering acquired skills of interpersonal and nursing, it has been
analysed that related training sessions are helpful to gain ability of
handling senior citizens and provide proper care services for their
welfare.
• However, it is necessary to make an individual comfortable by
behaviour and way of carrying out clinical procedures which reduce
their fear and results into better outcomes respectively.

Achievements of learning skill
• Acquiring effective communications kills is supportive to establish
efficient relation with old patients so that they can share every single
problem with carers in order to sort out them.
• Meanwhile, it is necessary to analyse actual health problem of an
individual by their views which can be done through making them
friendly and comfortable.