Introduction to Professional Practice: Client Care Scenario Analysis

This report analyzes a case scenario involving an 85-year-old client, Rob, diagnosed with early-stage dementia and diabetes, who is experiencing social isolation and memory loss. The report identifies Rob as the primary client and outlines his main issues, including his recent move, loss of his wife, and declining health. It then identifies the health and human service professionals involved in an interdisciplinary team, including nurses, psychologists, counselors, therapists, and doctors, detailing the expertise each member brings. The report addresses the questions and concerns each team member might have, such as how to best approach Rob's care given his age and condition. It explores available care options, such as rehabilitation centers or a coordinated team of professionals, and nominates a preferred option: a team-based approach. Finally, the report discusses how effective collaborative practice can be achieved in planning and managing Rob's care, emphasizing the importance of each professional's expertise and the benefits of a coordinated approach to improve his overall well-being. The report references several relevant sources to support its analysis and recommendations.

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Table of Contents
Identify who is the primary client/patient..................................................................................2
Describe the main issues or concerns for the client/patient in the scenario...............................2
Identify all the types of health and human service professionals that would be involved in the
interdisciplinary team/case conference for this scenario...........................................................2
Identify all the expertise each member of the interdisciplinary team brings to the
interdisciplinary team/case conference......................................................................................3
Identify the questions, considerations or concerns each member of the interdisciplinary team
would have in relation to this scenario.......................................................................................4
Identify some of the available care options that are appropriate for the client/patient in this
scenario......................................................................................................................................5
Nominate, with justification, a preferred care option for the client/patient...............................5
Comment on as to how effective collaborative practice would be achieved in the planning and
management of client/patient care scenario...............................................................................6
References..................................................................................................................................7

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Identify who is the primary client/patient.
The prime client, in this case, is Rob, who is 85 years of age. He is diagnosed with
diabetes mellitus which he has kept in control by himself. Now, he is showing the signs of the
first stages of dementia as he had started to behave in an agitated and disoriented manner and
showing signs of memory loss.
Describe the main issues or concerns for the client/patient in the scenario.
The main concerns for the client are that he has moved from his family home to a
small unit when his wife aged 60 years died from cancer. He mostly lives alone and remains
sad after his wife died due to cancer. He has withdrawn from all of his social networks. He
takes less care of himself now. He was recently admitted to the hospital when he started
acting differently. He started behaving in an agitated and disoriented manner. He has started
to behave in a way which shows early signs of dementia (Arunachalam & Mohan, 2018). He
also at times fails to recognize her elder daughter Sally and is even not aware of her presence
at times.
Identify all the types of health and human service professionals that would
be involved in the interdisciplinary team/case conference for this scenario.
Health and human services professionals helps in finding out the resources that are
available for the clients to offer them. They design programs that assist their clients. They
provide client services, like supporting the family of the patients, rehabilitation,
psychological help, social work, and health services. The range of health and human service
professionals include nurses, child welfare, psychologists, social workers, counselors,
therapists, and sociologists to name a few. The child welfare workers work with families to
create a safe and secure environment to keep families together. The safety of the child is the
primary focus of such a service. They assist in chronic and crisis situation. They help their

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clients to create a healthy lifestyle and environment to live into. They are compassionate and
empathetic to the need of the clients (Hench, 2014). They help their clients cope up with the
challenging situations in life. They have strong interpersonal skills which help them connect
with their clients. They are attentive listeners which assist them to understand the situation
and the condition of the clients and help them assist better in their situation. The major
objective of human service professionals is to find a solution to the problems of human crisis
and providing remedies for their problems. They focus on improving the quality of life of
their clients. They work under the guidance of professional staff. For example, if they are
employed in a mental health service center, they will assist the team, which will comprise of
social workers, psychologists, doctors and other social and public health professionals
(Biharlal srivasthav, 2016).
The health and human service professionals that would be involved in the given
scenario are the psychologists, the doctors, the nurses, and the therapists. Since the client
mostly lives alone; he needs someone to look after him all the time. He needs a nurse to look
after him. He needs a psychologist and a therapist to help him assist in developing the interest
in his life again and overcome the demise of his wife. He needs doctors and psychologists as
he is showing the signs of dementia. He needs proper counseling regarding the importance of
people around him as he has shut himself from social networking and lost touch from his
social circle (Marshall, 2015). He needs to be motivated to take care of his health and well-
being and it is significant to make him understand why it is important for him to do so. The
human services professionals comprising of various experts like counselors, therapists,
doctors can assist by developing a program for him.

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Identify all the expertise each member of the interdisciplinary team brings
to the interdisciplinary team/case conference.
The team would comprise of the nurses, psychologists, counselors, therapist, and
doctors.
Nurses: The nurses would take care of Rob as he often lives alone and has no interest in
taking care of his health and well-being now. He is often visited by his eldest daughter Sally,
who takes care of his needs and finances. So, the nurse would look after his health all the
time and make sure that he does what is required for him to get well.
Psychologists: The psychologists are needed for him to cope up with the problem of
dementia. Since he is acting in an aggressive way and often shows the loss of memory
situation where he even forgets the presence of his eldest daughter around him, the
psychologist can assist him in reading and identifying the situations which have led to this
state of dementia. Since they have expertise in this area they can better develop a program
where he can be put into check of the signs of dementia (Yang et al., 2014).
Counselors: They can help him understand the importance of society and social networks at
this stage of life so that he cannot indulge in the feeling of loneliness. They can help him
counsel about life and importance for him to be positive in life (Jeffs et al., 2016).
Therapists: They can help him heal from the grief of the loss of his wife and why it is
important for him to take care of his health for him and his children’s sake.
Doctor: The doctor is needed to check up his diabetes levels of sugar and other health issues
which may arise in such a situation. He needs regular check-ups at regular interval of time.
Therefore, these human professionals will form a team of experts who will plan and
execute a program for the well-being of Rob.

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Identify the questions, considerations or concerns each member of the
interdisciplinary team would have in relation to this scenario.
The concerns which the team would have as to which better ways can be adopted to
bring out the best plan for executing the plan for Rob. Since he is 85-years-old, who has his
own way of taking care of himself and is not well physically and mentally and also has
restricted his social life, it will be difficult for the team to develop interpersonal relations with
him to assure that they are there for his well-being and creating a healthy environment for
him to live in. Therefore, making a plan as per this would require a different type of time and
effort (Nordal, 2012).
Identify some of the available care options that are appropriate for the
client/patient in this scenario.
The care options that are available for Rob is that either he can be put into the
rehabilitation center where he will be treated by psychologists and counselors for the problem
of dementia or he can be cured with the help of a team of health and human services
professionals which will be a team of experts taking care of his total well-being which would
include physical, mental, emotional and social well-being (Dhillon, 2015). In this way, he
would not only be treated for a specific problem, but a systematic program will be developed
for him to overcome all the difficult situations which he is facing currently (Ji & Bai, 2016).
Nominate, with justification, a preferred care option for the client/patient.
The best-preferred care option for Rob is a team of human services professionals and
health services professionals. They all will work together as a team and will be guided by
professionals. Every team member will have a role to play in which there would be an
expert, who would know how to deal with the specific problem in such a situation. The team
of nurses, psychologists, counselors, therapist, and doctors would make a better recovery and
improvement plan for Rob (Mayes, 2014). He needs a psychologist and a therapist to help

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him assist in developing and creating the interest in his life again and overcome the demise of
his wife. Everyone in the team will know what outcomes they have to achieve out of the
given plan (Brosseau & Verma, 2011).
Comment on as to how effective collaborative practice would be achieved
in the planning and management of client/patient care scenario.
The collaborative practice as discussed in the above answers would be best for this
scenario. The collaboration would be a team of skilled professionals who would deal with the
area of their expertise. They would be in a better position to understand the requirement of
Rob's condition. Through their individual expertise, they would find a remedy to the
problems of the client’s situation. Even in the case where the family cannot give time to the
patient, these professionals working in a collaborative framework would assist the client in
getting back to the normal life and especially the psychologist would assist him in dealing
with dementia. The management of the client situation would be better done through the
skills of these trained professionals (Riedel, 2015). Therefore, by working on such a situation
with a team of professionals would make it easier for the client's family also as they would
also get support from them in recovering from this situation and crisis.

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