Nursing Essay: Analyzing Key Rights of Service Users and Support

This nursing essay delves into the crucial rights of service users, particularly focusing on individuals with intellectual and physical disabilities. It emphasizes the role of health support workers in empowering clients by providing them with options that align with their interests and lifestyle choices, thereby enhancing their mental and physical well-being. The essay underscores the importance of involving service users in decision-making processes to promote confidence and happiness, as well as engaging their families in the care plan. It also addresses practical aspects such as community engagement through transport options, cultural sensitivity in therapy plans, effective communication skills, and attention to personal needs like grooming and meal assistance. Furthermore, the essay highlights the significance of gathering feedback from clients and their families to continuously improve the practice approach.

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Key Rights of Service Users
The job of a Health Support Worker is work with people who live with intellectual
impairment and physical disability. Empowering clients and providing tem independence to
choose from options, make them feel valued and confident.
Providing options for service users
Options must be provided based on strengths of the client like their interest, lifestyle
choices. Providing options and empowering them to choose from it help to increase their
mental and physical well-being.
Decision making
In the decision making process, the wishes and the desire of the service users must be
taken under consideration. This approach will promote empowerment and confidence.
Moreover, empowering their strength help to increase their happiness, making them feel
better.
Involving everyone
Ensuring agreement and happiness with the client and their family member is the key
goal for improving the mental health of the client. This approach also makes the entire family
involved in the care plan.
Community Engagement Options

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Transport
Giving information about community transport services like taxi, buses helps in
empowering client to look at their options and thereby helping to take personal decision about
comfortable transport.
Cultural Factors
The judgement about the client’s therapy plan is guided by the cultural attitude and
experiences of the support workers. Thus in order to increase respect to the client the cultural
competency of the support workers must be increased.
Communication
The communication with the people learning disability or physical disability is
governed by inter-personal communication skills. The inter-personal communication skills
involve both verbal and non-verbal communication skills (active listening and maintenance
of proper body language). Proper communication skills will help to generate trust among the
employees.
Personal Needs
The personal needs of the client like grooming, oral care, assistance in dressing
assistance in having meal must be taken under consideration
Feedback
Feedback must be taken from clients, his or her family members in order to bring
change in the practice approach.