Hnc Social Care Assignment

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I am doing my placement at Crosshouse Hospital in ward 1B which is a paediatric ward, as part of my HNC I need to complete a graded unit and this consists of doing an activity with a patient in my care. I have discussed with the staff in my placement on who is the best to do my activity with. In accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998 and NMC The Code which protects the patient from their name being used. I will be keeping my patients name anonymous, this is to do with confidentiality so that the patient is not recognised.
Patient X is currently in hospital due to having a fall at home and breaking his right femur, he stays at home with his mum, dad and baby brother. His mum and dad do not work so they are there all day with him, he also goes to nursery so has contact with other children. With his mum and dad both not working they are there to take care of him once he goes home. However, with them not working they may be on benefits meaning that they are low on the social ladder
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The objectives that help me to achieve this is to take his observation in the same time span each time so I will do this by taking every 2 hours, I have discussed this with the nurse. My goal for the activity is that his observation is checked to make sure that there are no changes in his charts.
The nursing model that I am going to discuss is the Roy Adaptation Model that I find fits with my patient. Roy states that there are four components that make the model these are person, health, environment and nursing. The model looks at the person as well as in groups these are in families, organisations and the community it also includes the society. Roy has four implicit assumptions which state that:
• A person can be reduced to parts for care and