1110 - (24 qts) Flashcards
(24 cards)
What makes a Family?
Family is comprised of:
A family is a group brought together by shared needs, interests, and mutual concern for the well-being of all its members.
Family is comprised of:
Nuclear
Extended
Single Parent
Blended
Grandmother raising grandchildren
Erikson’s: age range & what happens in that category?
Stage 1: Trust vs Mistrust 0-1 yrs
Stage 2: Autonomy vs Doubt 1-3 yrs
Stage 3: Initiative vs Guilt 3-6 yrs
Stage 4: Competence vs Inferiority 6-12 yrs
Stage 5: Identity vs Role Confusion 12-20 yrs
Stage 6: Intimacy vs Isolation 20-40 yrs
Stage 7: Generativity vs Stagnation 40-65 yrs
Stage 8: Integrity vs Despair 65 yrs so on..
Maslow’s: what constitutes as basic human needs?
Physiological: breathing, food, water, sex, sleep, homeostasis, excretion
What makes a good critical thinker?
Being a good critical thinker is looking at all possibilities and having a passionate drive for clarity and accuracy
Define PCC and caring practice?
Person-centred-care: focusing on the individual’s needs, preferences, and values when planning and providing care.
Changes with aging, emotional and financial repercussion??
Feeling of loss of identity, purpose, routine as well as financial worries about managing on a fixed income and ensuring long-term security
List a few ways to boost self-esteem of the clients
- Encourage them to be as independent as possible.
- Praising the client’s successes or the efforts made.
- Inspire them to indulge in a favourite activity.
- Listen to them with love and empathy
- Keep them connected with family & friends
Definition and Functions of a family
• Physical Maintenance –
food, shelter, clothing, healthy environment, etc.
• Functional support –
through allocation of resources for food, education, shelter, leisure, etc.
• Reproductive and child-rearing -
planning to have children and to rear and launch children in society
• Socialization –
communication skills to interact effectively at home, school, work, etc.
• Maintenance of morale and motivation –
goal setting, encouragement, support, recognition of achievements and adjustment to losses
• Maintenance of values and beliefs –
system of values for effective coping to new roles and responsibilities, religious beliefs, health care practices, lifestyle practices, sexuality, etc.
• Determination of work roles and responsibilities –
earning income, caring for the home, rearing children, etc.
Challenges to the primary caregiver?
what can happen to someone when they become the primary caregiver (not hca, family perhaps)
- Role reversal – child becomes a “parent”
- Overwhelmed with physical, emotional and financial demands → “burn out”
- Assume multiple roles – caregiver, parent, continue to work → feel burdened with the new responsibility.
- May feel a failure for needing help
Why is it important to have a supportive circle of family & friends when it comes to healing?
They provide emotional support, practical assistance, and a sense of belonging, all of which are vital for navigating difficult times.
How to make an older adult feel honoured?
• Recognize and validate their personhood.
• To be acknowledged
• To have a place to really call home
- Recognize
- Negotiate
- Collaborate
- Facilitate
- Play
- Celebrate
- Relax
- Validate
Understand the definition of PCC?
Person-centred-care: focusing on the individual’s needs, preferences, and values when planning and providing care.
What is stress?
State of worry or mental tension caused by a difficult situation.
What is the development tasks of the age groups? Infants - adolescents
- Trust / Mistrust
- Autonomy / Doubt
- Initiative / Guilt
- Competence / Inferiority
Define: Development & Growth
Development: psychological and social changes that an individual experiences as he/she ages
Growth: physical changes that can be measured in a steady and orderly manner
Maslow’s Pyramid
• Self Actualization - morality, creativity, problem solving
• Esteem - self esteem, confidence, achievement
• Love and Belonging - friendship, family, sexual intimacy
• Safety - security of body, finances, employment and property
• Physiological - food, water, sleep, breathing, excretion
Define: Culture
The language, values, beliefs, traditions, and customs that people share and learn.
Define: Holistic Care
What accompanies holistic care?
Holistic Care is about caring for the person as a whole. Providing for their physical, mental, emotional, spiritual, social needs and overall wellbeing.
Define: Fact, Inference, Opinion
Fact: accurate representation of a situation, even, or condition.
Opinion: a person’s ideas or thoughts towards something.
Inference: evidence based guesses or conclusions drawn from a logical review of data.
Steps of Problem Solving process
- Assessment
- Planning
- Action: Implementation
- Evaluate
Role of an HCA during family conflict
- Recognize the conflict
- Inform the supervisor
- Defuse tense situation or encourage communication without taking sides
- Follow agency policy
Why is critical thinking important as an HCA in practice?
Critical thinking allows HCA to identify problems, analyze situations, and develop effective solutions ensuring they receive the best possible care.
How to handle conflict in the workplace?
- acknowledge the problem
- actively listen to all parties
- focus on solutions, not personalities
- seek common ground for resolution or compromise
How to provide dignity & respect to allow residents to maintain sexual relationships?
- Non-judgmental caregiver attitude
- Assist with hygiene & grooming
- Respect preferences – clothing, hair style
- Privacy: Knock before entering rooms and allow the client privacy to be with spouse, visitor
- Client’s sexual practices not to be spoken of disrespectfully, or joked about, among care-providers
