Healthcare: Approaches and Interventions for Specific Needs - Report

This report provides a comprehensive overview of approaches and interventions designed to support individuals with specific needs within healthcare settings. It explores various strategies, including self-help, direct action, and partnerships, to address the diverse requirements of patients with disabilities or serious illnesses. The report delves into the effectiveness of these interventions, emphasizing their role in maintaining quality and safety, establishing clinical governance, and promoting ethical practices. It also examines the dilemmas arising from healthcare policies, such as balancing patient autonomy with the need for medical intervention. Furthermore, the report discusses the positive risk approach, the impact of the Mental Capacity Act 2005, and the influence of emerging developments in medicine and technology, particularly in areas like dementia care. The conclusion highlights the significance of healthcare safety, the importance of intervention strategies, and the management of challenging behaviors associated with specific needs, supported by references to relevant literature.

Understanding Specific Needs

Health and social care services are defined as the integration
between several services which are available as well as
provided by medical professionals to patients in hospital.
People who suffers from specific disability or deadly disease
required special care as well as medication
INTRODUCTION

APPROACHES
SELF-HELP: It is the practice of performing the
certain activities by oneself.
DIRECT ACTION: It is the straightforward
approach of dealing an issue and its
rectification.
PARTNERSHIP: An agreement between two
partners that will help in better performance
of the activities.
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Explain the approaches and interventions available to
support individuals with specific needs.
• There are different approaches and strategies for the service users in
order to full fill the basic requirements and give them best treatment.
• As per the case with Mr. Simon Pen that they are suffering from multiple
disorders thus needs much attention and required to pay much attention
in order to meet the needs.
• Mr. Simon Pen along with that it will be more explaining. Along with it will
be the more it will be the more challenging (Batterham, Hawkins and
Collins, 2016).

EFFECTIVESS OF
INTERVENTION AND
APPROACHES
• It helps in maintaining quality and safety of clinical setting.
• It assist in setting suitable measure of clinical governance.
• It aid in establishing ethics and responsibility in nursing
practices.
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DILEMA -SERVICE VERSUS
POLICIES
The foremost dilemma of nursing policies and services of patient
care in which it is the responsibility of nurse to ensure timely
medication where dilemma is to anise whether to force service
user to take medicine or to coordinate according to their wish.
Following timely routine of clinical setting or to ensure patient
comfort is another dilemma between policies and services.
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POSITIVE RISK APPROACH
• Timely medication
• Successful recovery
• Patient safety
• Management of medication
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Mental Capacity Act 2005
Primary purpose behind enforcing this act is to
protect mentally disabled people who lack
capacity of making decision in case of
emergency.
Under this care providers are responsible for
making decision on behalf of people who are
unable to make decision by their own.
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IMPACT OF EMERGING DEVELOPMENTS ON
SUPPORT INDIVIDUALS WITH SPECIFIC
NEEDS.
• For dementia, there are various processes or treatment which is
practically incurable.
• But rapid development is given great impact on the new area.
• Besides, it will be beneficial for the people who take care the needs of
service users (Quinn, Henneberger and Braun, 2015.).
• As per the given case dementia is the case where service user requires
more care and precautions
• which helps service users to take care the better protection level.

Emerging development of medicine technology and
legislation
 Technology has been given great impact on medicine growth. New
technology provides new treatment techniques and growth for dealing
with challenging behaviour.
 New techniques and medicines has been given more challenging and
impactful decision making approach.
 It provides better opportunity and growth.

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