The responsibility of caring for a person if alters among various service providers in different locations, based on the person’s changing conditions and relevant care needs, it is termed as transfer of care. If not approached properly, it leads to adverse events that pose a negative impact on the people and the service provider system as well. Collaboration among all the sectors can overcome the negative consequences of poor transfer and enable the people to access the health and community services properly (Banfield et al. 2013).
The person of focus is Joseph Russo who lives in the suburb of Western Sydney, Blacktown. His wife Sophia suffers from COPD and heart failure and her health was deteriorating. Joseph cared for Sophia until he had an incident. He became unconscious after prolonged exposure to carbon monoxide in his car. He suffered from hypotension, and experienced delirium. Both he and his wife Sophia requires transfer of care. Blacktown Community Health Services provide an array of care for all the people residing in the Eastern sector of the town. People who suffer from chronic health issues are provided proper care to improve their conditions. Services that provide care at people’s home are required for Joseph and his family.
The following principles aim at following a person centred care model rather than a service-driven framework.
Using these principles, Joseph and Sophia’s health can be improved by caring for them with a more person-centred approach (Pollard, Bansback and Bryan 2015).
The Strength Based Nursing Care (SBNC) uses the fundamental belief that healthy functioning and healing of an individual is dependent on the nature of their relationships. SBN aims at creating positive conditions for the person’s relationships with their family (Dyess 2013). Therefore it depends on the theory that for optimum improvement in health the person must have a healthy environment that promotes their health and well-being. With this approach, Joseph and Sophia’s strengths and capabilities can be used to develop an understanding that will enable them to deal with critical situations and even compensate for their deficits and help them overcome their limitations.
SBN consists of four core principles that help improve the nurse-patient interactions. These include:
Ethics in health care is comprised of a few core values that are required to be implemented by the health care professionals in all spheres of their working environments, whether in an organization or in residential care settings (Townsend and Morgan 2017). The ethical principles must be respected while interacting with Joseph, his family or members of his community. The major ethical principles include:
It would be tried to increase Joseph’s interaction with other people from his own community, so that he feels more comfortable around them and starts expressing himself. Joseph originally belonged from Italy, but he came to Sydney long time ago. Therefore, connecting to the roots would be a better idea to help him interact with people he can connect with on a deeper cultural level (LoBiondo-Wood et al. 2013). Learning about the Italian culture would make it easier to care for Joseph and especially Sophia, since she has not been much comfortable with the English language ever since they came to Sydney. It would help understand their cultural values and ethics much more efficiently.
Conclusion:
Therefore, from the above discussion it can be concluded that with the help of the transfer of care principles and the principles of strength based nursing care (SBNC) an appropriate care for Joseph and Sophia can be ensured. They should be treated with the required care and given all the facilities that would help to improve their health. Arranging cultural community programs for them can be helpful for promoting their social interactions, especially within their own Italian community. Establishing a holistic approach to facilitate their care can be proved to be beneficial for the Russo family. All the factors that pose an impact on the health and well-being of the patients Joseph and Sophia, needs to be properly recognized and eliminated as soon as possible.
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