Question

Charles Darwin is a 47-year-old male client of Lotus Compassionate Care’s Home and Community Support Services. Charles is partially blind and paraplegic. Charles was able to see and walk 2 months ago, before he was involved in an accident. He has just been allowed to go home after a 2-month confinement in the hospital.
Charles lives in a two-storey apartment that has lifts, with his wife Lisa. As they anticipate that Charles will need to adjust to his current condition, Charles and Lisa decided to avail Lotus Compassionate Care’s Home and Community Support Services. Lisa is a small lady and is unable to safely assist Charles transferring from his wheelchair to the bed, from the wheelchair to the toilet, etc

Lisa is an administrative supervisor and used to work at an office every day from 9AM to 5PM. However, since the accident, Lisa has reduced her work hours to 10am to 2PM so she can be at home to assist with Charles’ morning personal care needs like showering, and preparing evening meals. Lisa also ensures meals are prepared for during the day for Charles and placed in the fridge before she leaves for work.
Charles and Lisa has arranged for Lotus Compassionate Care to send home care assistance Mondays through Fridays to assist with showering in the morning, and Charles was an IT manager, and has stopped working since the accident. This is the first time Charles has stopped working since he was 16 years old.ommunity access such as visit to the physiotherapy and some cleaning.

⦁   Based on the information provided about Lisa, identify relevant knowledge and skills that she may have that can complement your role as a support worker providing support to her and Charles.
Guidance: List one example of knowledge and one example of skill that Lisa may have that can complement how you deliver support services to her and Charles

⦁   Knowledge

⦁   Skill

Answer 1

Answer:

SKILLS:

Stress management

Stress management is an important skill needed by the one who look after a paraplegic patient.Here Mr Charles is unable to stand up by himself,stoped his work because of his physical condition and spending most of the time inside the house, thi can increase his stress level.So the support worker , with the help of Ms Lisa, should make him to understandto learn to live with his current physical status. involvement of family member ( especially spause) is important in this concern. Here Lisa find time to spend more time with Charls by doing only half day job.

The ability to do multitask

Ms Lisa was managed to continue her job along with the care of her husband and household work. This shows her multitasking ability.( this is the example for one skill).

Other skills she may have: patience and compassion, observation skill, or identifying the needsof the patient.

KNOWLEDGE

Maintaining skin integrity

Maintaining skin integity is a big challege while caring a paraplegic patient, as they are more prone to develope pressure injury or ulcer.The care giver should be knowledgable about the needs and technique of position change, supporting sufaces( cushions, pillows) also to keep the skin free of friction shear and moisture.Nutrion also plays a vital role in skin integrity.Here lisa is concerned about the meals and she make sure that everything is prepared before she leave for job.She herself found, she is unable safely assist charles for moving, so she decide for a support worker, it shows her knowledge.( this is the example for knowledge)