NSG 4055 Week 2 Discussion: Critical aspects of medicare

The impact of disease on family members: a critical aspect of medical care.

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Authors:

Golics, Catherine Jane1

Basra, Mohammad Khurshid Azam2

Finlay, Andrew Yule2

Salek, Sam

Source:

Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine.Oct2013, Vol.106 Issue 10, p399-407.9p.1 Color Photograph, 4 Charts.

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Abstract:

Most existing health-related quality of life research concerns the impact of disease on patients.However, in several medical specialties including dermatology, oncology, and physical and mental disability, studies have been carried out investigating the impact of disease on the lives of families of patients.The aim of this paper is to review the literature which relates to the impact of disease on family members of patients.

The OVIDSP Medline was selected as the primary database, Searches were limited to sources published in English.158 papers were identified for review.The definition of “family” varied across the literature, and a broad definition was accepted in this review.This review shows that a wide variety of aspects of family members’ lives can be affected, including emotional, financial, family relationships, education and work, leisure time, and social activities.

Many of these themes are linked to one another, with themes including financial impact and social impact being linked to emotional impact. Some positive aspects were also identified from the literature, including family relationships growing stronger. Several instruments exist to measure the impact of illness on the family, and most are disease or specialty- specific. The impact of disease on families of patients is often unrecognised and underestimated.Taking into account the quality of life of families as well as patients can offer the clinician a unique insight into issues such as family relationships and the effect of treatment decisions on the patient’s close social group of partner and family.[ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

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Click here to read the following article from the South University Online Library on the impact of disease on family members:

Golics, C.J., Basra, M.K.A., Finlay, A.Y., & Salek, S.(2013).The impact of disease on family members: A critical aspect of medical care.Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, 106(10), 399–407.

After reviewing the article, which factor do you feel has the most impact on family members? Please support your response with examples from readings.What are some of the reasons it is important to include the support persons in the plan of care?

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SAMPLE APPROACH TO DISCUSSION 2 SOLUTION

Caregiving and its impact on family members.

I feel that caregiving has the most effect on family members. Healthcare settings are projected to change in the coming years; thus, there is a probability that demand for caregivers will continue rising. Care delivery has been pushed to communities, and to caregivers, this has caused the shrinking of the average length of staying in the hospitals. Moreover, the number of aging persons and people with other chronic conditions is also increasing (Golics, Basra, Finlay&Salek, 2013). The majority of individuals want to be staying at home as they age; this will increase the need family caregivers.

Generally, caregiving domains include; providing help with household duties, self-care activities, and movement, offering support both socially and emotionally; surrogacy and medical care, among others. Each of the mentioned domains contains several activities.

Caregiving has adverse psychological effects such as; the view that caregiving is hectic and challenging, depressive symptoms, care professionals can as thoroughly diagnose clinical depression diagnosed, compromised life quality. The quality of life of family members is mostly affected by psychological distress. This mostly results from them feeling helpless and not being in control. This can affect their careers, emotional health, and mental health. Family members mentioned different emotions like feeling guilty, angry, anxious, distressed, frustrated, embarrassment, and relief. Family members are affected in different levels; this is mostly dependent on how severe the patient’s disease is and the time length since the diagnosis occurred (Golics, Basra, Finlay&Salek, 2013). Increased hands-on care by family caregivers increase the distress on family members

Mostly, caregivers tend to consider their care poorer compared to those of non-caregivers. They associate this with the burden of caregiving, a number of caregiving tasks, length of time in the caregiving role, problems of the recipient of care, which may range from impairments like physical, cognitive, and behavioral. Compared t non-caregivers, most caregivers feel they are not in control\if their lives. Caregiving role can also lead to feeling a loss of self-identity, reduced esteem level, and persistent worries. Research indicates that 22% of caregivers think drained as they go to sleep at night, and most of them feel they can’t manage all their caregiving duties Center on Aging Society. (2005).

Support persons should be included in the plan of care. This is because caregivers are vital resources of national healthcare. Their support to the elderly contributes to services that, if purchased, would cost billions of dollars (Capistrant, 2016). Healthcare planning for support persons would lead to a better understanding of the various caregiving experiences and environments and how they impact health.

References:

Capistrant, B. D. (2016). Caregiving for Older Adults and the Caregivers’ Health: an Epidemiologic Review. Current Epidemiology Reports, 3(1), 72–80. doi: 10.1007/s40471-016-0064-x

Center on Aging Society. (2005). How Do Family Caregivers Fare? A Closer Look at Their Experiences. (Data Profile, Number 3). Washington, DC: Georgetown University.

Golics, C. J., Basra, M. K. A., Finlay, A. Y., &Salek, S. (2013). The impact of the disease on family members: A critical aspect of medical care. Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, 106(10), 399–407.

Week 5 Project – Creating a Plan of Care

Utilizing the information you have gathered over the weeks regarding the specific illness group you identified, this week, you will create a plan of care for your chronic illness group.

Create the plan in a 4- to 6-page Microsoft Word document (the 4–6 pages include the holistic care plan). Include the following in your plan:

Start the paper with a brief introduction describing the chronically ill group you selected and provide rationale for selecting this illness and the participants. Clearly identify the Healthy People 2020 topic chosen and why this topic was chosen.

You will want to compile the information gathered from Weeks 1–4 over 2 to 3 pages. This should be in APA format and paragraph form. This is not to be copied and pasted from previous assignments. It is to be a summary of each week.

The paper should include the care plan for your chronic illness group organized under the following headings:

Nursing Diagnoses

Assessment Data (objective and subjective)

Interview Results

Desired Outcomes

Evaluation Criteria

Actions and Interventions

Evaluation of Patient Outcomes

You will need to ensure that the care plan is holistic and includes at least 3 nursing diagnoses related to the topic and interview results from the previous weeks.

Include strategies for the family or caregiver in the care plan and provide your rationale on how they will work.

Include a reference page to provide reference for all citations for the paper as well as the care plan.

On a separate references page, cite all sources using APA format.

Use this APA Citation Helper as a convenient reference for properly citing resources.

This handout will provide you the details of formatting your essay using APA style.

You may create your essay in this APA-formatted template.

NSG 4055 Week 2 Discussion: Critical aspects of medicare