Moorwood Cottage Care Home: Safeguarding in Health and Social Care

This report examines safeguarding practices and strategies implemented at Moorwood Cottage Care Home to minimise abuse within the health and social care setting. It analyzes two key strategies: intentional rounding and staff rota reorganisation, evaluating their advantages and disadvantages. Intentional rounding involves regular monitoring of residents, while staff rota changes aim to improve care delivery by assigning specific roles. The report highlights potential improvements, such as staff rotations, 24/7 resident support, and additional staff recruitment to enhance consistency and quality of care. The analysis emphasizes the importance of evaluating and refining these strategies to meet the needs of vulnerable residents and maintain high standards, as per CQC inspection requirements.

While giving specific roles to individuals within Moorwood Cottage Care
Home, it might cause burden among the staff members as same role would
be kept on repeated by them daily. It might cause work stress which could
lead to incompetence. In addition, no recruitment of outside staff might
further enhance the burden that is never good in places where consistent
performance is required.
3.3 Possible improvements to working practices and strategies to minimise
abuse in health and social care
Consistency is the key to provide utmost effective healthcare to residents
of Moorwood Cottage Care Home. This is because these patients require
severe medical attention and care which is essential and must be treated as
priority at the care home as per CQC inspection. Thus, it is crucial that
strategies adopted by them are evaluated and improved in case
effectiveness be maintained and expected standards be delivered. As for
intentional rounding up, staff rotations seem to be one of the crucial
approaches as this would allow staff members to be present in case
someone needs their assistance. In addition to this, there must be at least
two members who are fully present with residents 24x7 on rotational basis
that would further enhance care given to them. This would result in
consistency within the staff and their efforts would rightfully be subjected
for improving quality of healthcare. Where staff rota is concerned,
responsibilities must be shifted periodically which would be resulting in
new methods and ways in which healthcare would be provided.
Furthermore, new members must be hired that would help the staff cope
up with innovative methods like fluid champion. In addition, health and
social care could always use extra individuals that would further provide
better care to elderly and fulfil their supportive needs.
3.1 Working practices and strategies designed to minimise abuse in
health and social care
Minimisation of abuses and risk within healthcare is an essential
practice and must effectively be implemented within the health and
social care organisations. It is an essential element that must be
prioritised and must be most important aspect of such associations.
Moorwood Cottage Care Home have started using various practices
and strategies within their care home to achieve this purpose. These
practices and strategies are mentioned below:
Intentional Rounding: Within Moorwood Cottage Care Home, a
new strategy has been implemented where employees are engaged
in intentional rounding up which consists of monitoring residents at
care home effectively. The intention of adopting this strategy is to
effectively check elderly people who have high dependency needs.
In addition to this, this rounding up is being done on various
purposes such as recording information related to their
repositioning, changing incontinence pads and to monitor their
fluids.
Staff Rota: Another strategy which is being adopted at Moorwood
Cottage Care Home is the reorganisation of staff rota to achieve
better healthcare standards and to enhance their performance within
the care home. Under this strategy, nurses will be completely in
charge regarding care provided to elderly people, whereas, care
workers would be operating in teams along wit an extra care giver
as assistance. This strategy was implemented with existing staff
without recruiting new individuals. Thus, it denotes that effective
care could be provided by staff of Moorwood Cottage Care Home
by shifting their roles appropriately.
Both of these strategies aimed at improving the care standards
within the organisation and implement a culture which treats health
of residents as a prime concern.
3.2 Effectiveness of working practices and strategies used to minimise
abuse in health and social care
Each strategy applied in health and social care are required to be
evaluated as there is always a scope of improvement while providing
quality healthcare to patients. Evaluation is necessary as each new
modification could be appropriately used to enhance services within
health and social care organisations. Moorwood Cottage Care Home,
applied various strategies as there was a dire need of improving its
quality of services given to elderly residents. Out of these, two
strategies seemed to have maximum effect and helped the firm in
achieving its goal for improvement and protecting their residents from
any sort of abuse. However, there are various advantages and
disadvantages of these strategies that are mentioned below:
Advantages and Drawbacks of Intentional Rounding: One of the most
effective strategies used by Moorwood Cottage Care Home was setting
up staff for intentional round-ups. This was a contributor in achieving
the desired standards and its biggest advantage was that appropriate
care would be given to patients. Moreover, this would help in removing
any sort of inconsistency as proper monitoring would support all the
needs of elderly people within the care home. However, intentional
round-ups denote that there is no specific timetable followed by the
staff, which might rise incompetence in long run. Moreover, immediate
needs might not be addressed due to absence of regular and consistent
round-ups.
Advantages and Drawbacks of Staff Rota: Reorganisation of staff was
another strategy followed by Moorwood Cottage Care Home, which
was associated in giving different duties to various healthcare
professionals, mainly nurses and care workers. Its prime advantage is
that adopting this method would enhance competence within the
workforce of care home. Moreover, each member would be developing
their skills in relation to provide the most appropriate care to elderly
people. However, there are some drawbacks of this approach in various
SAFEGUARDING IN HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE