SHNXGB3023: Analyzing Effective Caring Techniques in Healthcare

This report provides a comprehensive overview of effective caring techniques and their impact on the quality of life for service users. It details factors important for a high quality of life, including physical, intellectual, emotional, and social aspects. The report explores various caring techniques such as encouragement, observation, distraction, and self-perception, highlighting their positive and negative effects. It also addresses constraints to positive caring, such as geographic and financial barriers, and emphasizes the importance of effective communication in healthcare. The report concludes by referencing the '6 C's' of care, compassion, competence, communication, courage, and commitment, which are crucial for delivering high-quality care and improving the overall well-being of patients. Desklib offers this report as a valuable resource, alongside a wide range of other solved assignments and past papers, to support students in their studies.

Effective Caring Techniques

ABSTRACT
The aim of the report is to have a clear understanding about the parameters which are
required for an individual to attain the high quality of life. There is a description about the
different techniques which are performed by a carer when they are working with the users.
Moreover, this report also includes different constraints required in positive caring and the steps
to achieve the best quality of care for the service users. It can generated that a carer has a very
important job to follow which holds a great in the life of the service user. In addition to this, the
one thing which can be analysed is the importance of not being dependent on someone makes the
life very easy.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
ABSTRACT....................................................................................................................................2
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................4
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................4
Factors important for high quality of life....................................................................................4
Techniques for caring..................................................................................................................5
The constraints to positive caring................................................................................................6
Key caring techniques and positive caring work.........................................................................8
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................9
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................10

INTRODUCTION
Caring is the very important aspect in one's life. With the help of care, people can deliver
help to individuals and make them improve their health as well as that of the whole community.
Caring is a work where people receiving it are expecting right for them and being consistent
during the different stages of their life. Positive caring is an approach which is important for
caring the patients and the residents (Jain and Fonagy, 2020). It helps in bringing well being and
joy in the lives of people with a good standards of caring. In healthcare, high quality of life is
dependent on various factors such as health status and other parameters leading to well being.
Caring helps the service users to attain their goals along side having a good lifestyle. Moreover,
there are many different techniques used in caring which will help in making the the offered
services best and satisfied. But there are many positive as well as negative effects and is thus
important for the carer to have well knowledge about it and use the appropriate technique in the
process and use it creating just the positive effects. It helps in ensuring that the needs and
requirements of the users are fulfilled and feel good after doing this.
MAIN BODY
Factors important for high quality of life
Quality of life is related to attain the high level of satisfaction within different aspects of
life. Quality of life in general sense is measured on the basis of health, emotions and functioning
of an individual in terms of happiness and so on. There are different factors which will have an
influence on the quality of life. These factors are important for every individual but are
extremely important for the care workers.
Physical factors; It includes physical comfort which is the provision required for
creating a suitable environment and meeting the individual needs which includes comfortable
beds and chairs, no noise place and even the right amount of stimulation. Physical comfort also
refers to offering a care to maintain the comfort and allowing peace during sleeping process.
Every living being requires food to survive which makes the diet an important aspect for the
same (Locsin, 2017). Types of intake foods can affect the quality of life and especially important
when an individual has problems of diabetes or high cholesterol. Regular exercise helps in
providing long term benefits and making them feel better. Children as well as adults must
exercise to develop and maintain the mobility.

Intellectual factors: Stimulation helps in keeping the mind in an active state and stay at
alert (Elera-Fitzcarrald and et.al., 2018). It prevents form boredom and depression which is
caused by not having anything interesting to do. Stimulation such as engaging in story telling to
children, increasing the time for visiting hours and solving puzzle helps in making life interesting
and to be motivated. Engaging in other activities is also a great way of being occupied. These
activities provides a sense of well being and makes them feel worthwhile along with providing
chances for social interactions.
Emotional factors: Every individual has the right to have privacy. This will create
opportunities to be unobserved. It is possible that people will like to share their problems and
other sessions in more confidentiality. Lack of privacy makes them feel less valued. Dignity is
provided by treating each individual with some respect and not demeaning them will keep their
self esteem high and positive. Approval is about showing a sense of affection relating to
someone's action. It helps in maintaining positive self esteem and having values with the actions.
Social factors: It includes social contact which is an opportunity to meet with other
people and without this factor, individuals will be isolated which might lead them towards
depression. Social contact can be formed on the basis of age, likes and dislikes and also the
interests of an individual (Blasdell, 2017). Social support is different from social contact is the
former is more personal. Support is received from the people which the individual has a trust on,
it is someone from the group of friends or family. It helps in providing emotional security and
sharing the problems in order to have help in solving it.
Techniques for caring
Every individual is looking for a ways to grow and maintain a healthy lifestyle. Caring is
the process which helps the individuals to meet the needs of being healthy and active while
helping them into supporting their life regarding the quality factors. Carer play a huge role in the
process of influencing others and to attain the outcome of care. These techniques can have both
positive and negative effects. Some of carer skills and techniques are:
Encouraging: It is important for a carer to encourage in a way which offers motivation
as well as support for the service users to get through the difficult times and different stages of
life. It is important to encourage the individuals to strengthen their behaviours and improve their
health and well being. Every likes to be praised in an encouraging manner and will thus result in

increasing the chances of repeating good behaviour and gradually become more standard. It is
important for a carer to not show any objection with the individuals when they are not ready to
increase the well being. This way the information is provided which is related to the effects of
behaviours on each individual in more unique and free way.
Observation: This can be categorised into different types such as medical observation
and visual observation. Medical observation is related to the process of collecting the data ad
information with the help of taking measurements of body temperature, blood pressure, pulse
rate and so on. On the other hand, visual observation is about noticing the changes happening in
the behaviours of the individual which includes their food intake and wakefulness (Gettis and
et.al., 2018). It is important for the carer to be proactive when taking care of an individual.
Proactivity help in anticipating what might happen generate potential responses accordingly in
the prior basis. It helps in avoiding the retro-active behaviour where measures are taken after the
deed is done. It is done with the process of observation and noting down the changes happening
in the individual. It results in preventing from the future complications in the individual caring
process while making sure that the treatment continues.
Distraction: This technique is used to handle the temporary pain and anxiety. When an
individual will continue to think about the discomfort, it will only increase. But, when the main
attention of individuals are focussed to something else, it will result in decreasing the suffering
and making the stress to be reduced. A carer can help the individual in creating their own kind of
distraction technique.
Self perception: It is necessary for the individual to recognise the feelings if the service
user in an quite accurate way along with its needs and requirements. The intentions of such
individuals are depicted with the help of facial expressions, their body language and the tone in
the voice. Intuition is an important key for a carer to receive the non verbal signs (Andersson,
Öhman and Garrison, 2018). Effective communication can be done by having eye contact and
the one who is avoiding having an eye contact is most probably hiding something and being less
truthful. A carer must be aware of these changes.
The constraints to positive caring
This have been seems that geographic barriers that could be led with some individuals
about their health, social care and many other issues. While having such concepts this could led
with having some more better things and make sure for keeping the proper services. In such kind

of patient should be care about their things and make their treatment in such way that could keep
them for working with some better conditions (Palacios, Pérez and Webb, 2020). As health care
should come to know about their patients issue and try to take their proper treatment while
having the distance. As this should be rights for their health care for which the resources must be
available and that might be important for them. In such kind of things this could essential for
keeping some important things and make sure for keeping their patient with right treatment. NHS
have taken many steps in working with service towards the patients and that could being
important for them and could be important for them in keeping the positive thinking. The health
care service also need to keep their long distance solution in which they can easily come to know
about their proper system in which the patients can take their treatment. For this geographic
barrier that could take place and might be important for them. In such cases this could also better
things and that could play their goals for which the patient can come to know about their services
(Candela and et.al., 2020). Moreover, this mobility walk problem with having many issue and
that could solve out with having some strategy and that might be important for them in working
with some better policies.
Financial barriers that could also cause at the treatment so for this problems as UK
government have taken the major steps. Furthermore, they have started the NHS for those people
who cannot afford their money for treatment and that might be important of them in keeping
some better things. As effective communication that could also take place while through which
this come to know about those things which could being important for those patients who are
taking treatment. In such kind of activities as author have also discuss about the communication
at the health care services in which the employee and many other staff easily make sure for their
working system and also effective place in which they can work. For having such kind of things
this could help their people for safely experience. Along with this also led them for working
some more better things and that could also essential for knowing about those things patients
should keep their communication system much better (Naylor, Hadenfeldt and Timmons, 2021).
For these reasons as the employee should know about their imperative things and make sure for
keeping the effective communication at their place. Health and social care the communication
should play their role in providing about the positive and beneficial things for their patients.
Health care services employee should know about their work and that could take care about the
patients with the proper treatments.

Key caring techniques and positive caring work
Naturally focuses that could keeping towards the 6'cs which could help the health and
social care for which patient can receive the better treatment. Along with this also help for
improving the proper quality of life and make sure for having the better concepts at workplace.
Care which could receiving better care and right throughout having the single rights life.
Compassion which could be related with the relationship in care through which the health and
social care work from their system (Wei and et.al., 2020). Along with this also make sure for
keeping some better concepts at their working place. Competence that play the effective role for
which the caring roles could be increased and make sure for keeping some better expertise
clinical and knowledgably staff for working. As usually this could also important for taking
some better things and that could also play their technical things for which the staff can work.
Moreover, keeping their patients for treatment and which could be important for them and
deliver with some of the effective treatment that could based on evidence and research. Caring
role for their employee that must be important for working with some better competence and
make sure for keeping some better concepts. While such things will completely effective with
many things and that could be easily come to know about their better employee while for
working at health and social case sector.
Communication that could being important for the health and social care in which they
can pass the information about the patients (Briggs and Hawkins, 2020). Along with this having
some better essential things no decision that could be taken as per their own (employee).
Courage means right thing for the people who care and speak about the many things. While this
could being important for keeping some better benefits and also make sure for keeping some
more effective terms and goals. While having such things this could also led with having dare to
question and try to give some right and relevant things. In such kind of activities this could also
important for knowing about the confidence while for working with the patients and that might
be important for taking the growth and bring more opportunities for their employee or any other
staff. Commitment which could looks out for everyone in health and social care as proper
worker. In such things private sector that could help their people with having many things and
also make sure for keeping their more financial and geographic barriers to be solve. Carers
should strive to provide the best possible guidance and care for their service users (Suresh,
Kumar and Varatharajan, 2020). This usually keeping and reaching out for the proper solution in

which the system and that could also essential for working with some other things. In such kind
of things that communication that could play their significant and also keeping some better
estimation about the resources.
CONCLUSION
Every single person is expecting a high quality of life which is attained by factors which
can be social or physical or any other thing. These factors are known to have a major impact on
the quality of life of an individual. People involved in taking care of an individual plays a huge
role in their life. Carer is supposed to have some set of skills and techniques along with training
and knowledge. Some of these techniques have positive while some have negative impacts on an
individual which makes it important for the carer to have understanding about this. Techniques
such as observation is helped in reflecting on what should be done at the right time. Positive
caring is the process of treating the individuals with high level of empathy, respect and
compassion. Caring on personal level is a very important responsibility which will protect from
any disregarding and avoidance in the ongoing treatment.

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