Healthcare Professional Report: Maximizing Patient Independence

This report explores the crucial role of healthcare professionals in enhancing patient independence and well-being. It details effective actions and treatments for various patient scenarios, including an elderly partially sighted lady, a woman post C-section, and a male soldier with amputation. The report discusses strategies to maximize independence in each case, such as providing guidance, training, and specialized therapies like mirror box therapy and physical therapy. Furthermore, it examines factors affecting patient well-being across psychological (confidence, self-esteem), physical (nutrients, exercise), and social (interaction, growth opportunities) domains. The report concludes by emphasizing the healthcare professionals' responsibility to improve patients' health and address their specific needs through tailored interventions. The references include various journals, books and online resources to support the findings.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
First Half..........................................................................................................................................1
1 Description of various effective action and treatment of healthcare professional should take
to clients and their families to achieve maximum independence................................................1
Second half.......................................................................................................................................2
2 Discussion about two factor that affects patients well-being in each of following area..........2
Psychological area-.....................................................................................................................2
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................3
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................4

INTRODUCTION
In the medical sector, health care experts and service provider play a very crucial role in
delivering quality care services to patients so that they can improve their disability and health
issue (Health and safety in care homes. 2014). In order to provide effective treatment and care,
independence and privacy of patients is most important to make them feel free comfortable in the
hospital. The following project addresses various effective action and treatment which is
provided by care experts in the health care organisation in different situation to achieve
maximum independence. In addition to this, various components that affect the well-being of the
service users has also studied in this report.
FIRST HALF
1 Description of various effective action and treatment of healthcare professional should adopt to
clients and their families to achieve maximum independence
Healthcare experts and service provider have the major responsibility to facilitates clients or
patients in the hospital in such manner so as they can able to feel and comfortable in the health
and care organisation. In this manner, privacy and independence are important aspect so patients
and their family can feel free and comfortable. In order to provide maximum independence in
different situation, health care experts should deal with patients in the following manner-
 According to the given situation, an elderly lady is living at home but she is partially
sighted. It means that lady has issue that she is unable to see properly or she is able to see
very little. She is not completely blind but faced the difficulties while she see something.
In this case, health experts should conduct meeting with that lady and check their eye
disability on the regular basis (Alhatmi, 2011). By providing effective guidance such as
telling her about stairs as they approach them and easily access that whether they go up
and down. Furthermore, the practitioner also can suggest non optical aids to help partially
sighted lady with low vision enjoy life more fully. Health experts can also provide
training to that partially blind lady so that she can carry out its daily routine work
effectively. By using the mentioned treatment and action, health experts can make the
partial sighted lady independent at her home.
 In a second situation, health practitioner provides maximum independence by arranging
effective facilities and treatments to the lady who just had a C section and now shifted
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back on the ward. In this situation, practitioner should provide effective guidance and
knowledge about the start walking, eat right food and nutrition, breastfeed with support,
avoid crunches etc (Health and safety in care homes. 2014). Health experts should render
knowledge regarding after pregnancy activities so that the lady can become independent
herself (Bernard, 2013). They can provide extra phone charger, breast feeding pillows,
high rise maternity underwear, facial cleaning cloths, slipper and socks etc. By use of
these things, lady can take care of own and be independent in the hospital.
 In the third situation, a male soldier is patient of amputation so in this case health
professionals can take various things while they treat him. They should provide mirror
box therapy under which the patient actually watches in a mirror while receiving PT to
re-map the brain's neural pathways to register that the limb is no longer there. Further,
health experts can provide physical therapy so that the male patient can coordinate with
his body and can balance in an effective manner (Clark, 2011). Both balance and
coordination are required for weight shifting from one limb to another. In addition to this,
transfer skills are essential to make independent amputation patient. By using these skills
he can learn the ways to do toilet, shower and basic activities of life. Before discharging
the patient, health experts should provide transfer skills to patient which can assist him to
become independent.
SECOND HALF
2 Discussion about two factor that affects patients well-being in each of following area
Psychological area- Confidence- Client should be encouraged to discover own unique qualities and have the
confidence to face challenge and task risk. Self esteem- People with high self esteem generally have a positive outlook and are
satisfied by themselves most of the time. Clients can improve their health well-being by
developing positive self image and a sense of self worth (Clark, 2011).
Physical area- Nutrients-This factor affect the patient health well-being because nutrients directly
impact on the patient’s health. Whatever he/she takes a food that influences his growth of
health. For example, eating junk food which can increase the fat in the body of individual
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(Earls and Myers, 2010). On the other hand, protein consumed in an adequate quantity
increases stamina. Exercise- Exercise assists the patients in improving their health and fitness. By doing
exercise in regular basis, individual can increase their stamina and decrease obesity.
Furthermore, by taking regular exercise, client can make his body flexible and overcome
various physical and health disability.
Social area-
Interaction- Health well-being is largely affected by interaction and social relationship
with other. Individual is a social animal who always want to get in touch in people so interaction
with societies such as family, friends, and colleagues is influence the well-being of individual.
Opportunities for growth- In the individual life, when they take the growth opportunity
them then it provide effective well-being to them. Every individual wants to grow and progress
in their life. On the other hand, if there is no growth opportunity in the human being life then
they will de-motivate and will make the person depressed (Emerson and et.al., 2012). So it can
be said that growth opportunity is another major social factor for the client.
CONCLUSION
From this project it has been concluded that health care experts and professional have
major responsibility to improve health disability and health issue of patients in the hospital. By
using various treatments and effective action, service providers can easily deal with partially
sighted patients, C section patient and amputation patients in the hospital.
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REFERENCES
Journal & Book
Alhatmi, Y., 2011. Safety as a hospital organizational priority: a case study. Clinical
Governance: An International Journal. 16(3). pp.203 – 219.
Bernard, C., 2013. Achieving age equality in health and social care. Working with Older People.
17(1). pp. 19–24.
Brand, D., 2012. Social and health care integration: (1) The individual dimension. Journal of
Integrated Care. 20(6). pp. 371–378.
Clark, M., 2011. Mental health care clusters and payment by results: considerations for social
inclusion and recovery. Mental Health and Social Inclusion. 15(2). pp. 71–77.
Earls, J. and Myers, T., 2010. Fascial Release for Structural Balance. North Atlantic Books.
Emerson, E. and et.al., 2012. Improving health and lives: The Learning Disabilities Public
Health Observatory. Advances in Mental Health and Intellectual Disabilities. 6(1). pp.
26–32.
Online
Health and safety in care homes. 2014. Health and Safety Executive. [PDF]. Available Through:
<http:// www.hse.gov.uk/pUbns/priced/hsg220.pdf >. [Accessed on 19th January 2017].
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