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Part 1
Across the globe, millions of people spend countless hours as they take care of their loved ones with chronic illnesses and the elderly. They ensure that they take their medications as prescribed, engage I healthcare routine tasks, and help them undertake necessary activities such as eating and bathing. As the health care system grows, nurses continue to offer tremendous support to family caregivers. The nurses train the caregivers to provide quality skills to their loved ones to remain healthy and robust (Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, 2015). The support eases the burden on caregivers who are at high risk of developing health problems. The nurses help the family caregiver overcome psychological challenges that constitute caregiving.
Patient preference is one of the main barriers to the initiation of home care services in communities. Mostly, patients with life-threatening illnesses prefer treatment in the hospital rather than at home. The elderly fear abuse and neglect from their caregivers at home and like being in a health care facility. Notably, the unavailability of critical medical equipment for patients that require acute care is a significant hindrance to home care services (Brant et al., 2019). Hence, this poses a risk to patients in need of life-sustaining medical devices. Environmental hazards such as poor sanitation and lack of education among family caregivers threaten patient safety, thus a great hindrance to home based care. Access to home-based care in rural areas is a challenge due to the associated costs and restrictions of such services. Rural areas are characterized by high crimes that endanger the clinicians’ lives, hence challenging to initiate home-based in such regions.
Part 2
Jean Watson Theory of Human Caring resonates the most with my nursing profession. It stresses the human aspects together with scientific know-how and nursing practice. The model emphasizes nursing’s central role as promoting health care, disease prevention, care for the sick, and restoration of health (Pajnkihar et al., 2017). According to the theorist, care should be the basis of nursing practice as it promotes growth and provides an environment where patients can thrive in their wellbeing. The theory stresses nursing’s four aspects: the person, health, nursing, and the environment. It places the person who is the patient as one worthy of love, care, respect, and ought to be understood and assisted through the process.
Part 3
On working at the bereavement call center, I have encountered several challenges in relaying death news to relatives. It is one of the most sensitive and challenging tasks to take on as a nurse. Significantly, handling the family member’s emotions on passing the death news has been the major challenge. Primarily, this becomes more difficult where the relative did not anticipate the death. In response, I learned that these shattering news are received well from a person who had created a rapport with the family. In cases where I did not have an existing relationship with the deceased’s family members, I will call in a doctor or a nurse who was well known to the family to relay the news.
References
Brant, J. M., Fink, R. M., Thompson, C., Li, Y. H., Rassouli, M., Majima, T., & Lascar, E. (2019). Global Survey of the Roles, Satisfaction, and Barriers of Home Health Care Nurses on the Provision of Palliative Care. Journal of Palliative Medicine, 22(8), 945-960.
Pajnkihar, M., McKenna, H. P., Štiglic, G., & Vrbnjak, D. (2017). Fit for Practice: Analysis and Evaluation of Watson’s Theory of Human Caring. Nursing Science Quarterly, 30(3), 243-252.
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. (2015, November 16). Nurses Help Adults Manage Family Caregiving Responsibilities.
https://www.rwjf.org/en/library/articles-and-news/2015/11/nurses-help-adults-manage-caregiving-responsibilities.html