Reference no: EM133602334
Assignment:
Aged care
Context of situation
A) Identify and describe a specific situation in aged care where you contributed to a person's ongoing skills development using a strengths based approach.
B) While ensuring client confidentiality, provide relevant details for Person A that may include: Age, Gender, Cultural background, Specific needs of the client.
Contribute to skills assessment
1) Explain how you respected the persons right when observing their skills and competencies?
2) Explain how you supported others to become involved in this assessment and the reasons why they were involved. This may include family, carers, work colleagues, health professionals.
3) Record the observation here accurately and objectively using terms that can be clearly understood by:
a) Briefly describing the skills being reviewed
b) Explaining what steps you took to review the clients skills during the activity
c) Summarising your findings.
4) What did you, or would you, do if you noticed the person's ability to perform the skills in different environments had changed or if changes in their status were affecting their skills development?
Assist with ongoing skills development according to individualsed plan
5) Explain what information, skills and support you provided the person to encourage them to engage as actively as possible in activities.
6) What skills development strategies in the persons individual plan did you follow?
7) How did you encourage and assist the person to identify their strengths and goals for skill development?
8) How did you assist the person to identify what resources they needed to complement their strengths?
9) Explain how you supported this person to continue to develop their skills.
10) What constructive feedback did you give the person?
11) What discussions did you have, or would have, with the person or relevant others about real and /or potential difficulties in this persons skill development?
12) Explain how you used the advice from your supervisor when monitoring
a) The effectiveness of the strategies
b) the persons level of engagement in the activity.
Support incidental learning opportunities to enhance skills development
13) Give at least 3 examples of how you encouraged incidental learning for this person.
14) Explain how you promoted enjoyment and maximised engagement for this person.
15) Explain a) at what point and b) why, you withdrew your support to an appropriate level, in consultation with the supervisor, to encourage the person to learn from their own experience.
Complete documentation
16) What reporting did your organisation require from you in this situation?
17) How did you maintain this person's documentation in this situation?