Carers coping with stress

Stress is an individual experience and may be caused by one or more of many different factors however a common consensus is that on-going stress can lead to health problems, affecting your well being which also impacts on those around you. The table below consists of common symptoms of stress, both physical and emotional. 

Physical Symptoms	Emotional Symptoms
Headaches	Tearfulness
Tiredness	Anxiety
Aches and Pains	Panic
Changes in weight	Anger
Changes in appetite	Loneliness
Changes in sleeping pattern

Recommendation on how carers can cope with stress  

First and foremost I think it is important that you acknowledge that you are experiencing stress and identify exactly what is causing the stress. After which you can attempt different options to minimising the stress.

This may mean eliminating the stressful situation completely; however in some cases this may not be possible.  The list below may be helpful in coping with stress. It is never OK to live with stress as this WILL have major consequences to your health.  

Ø  Speak to your manager, although this may be a scary thought they may offer practical solutions that may benefit you (e.g. change shift patterns). 

Ø  Look at time management, as this will help you to priorities your daily duties and not do too much in a day. 

Ø  Practice relaxation to control any negative physical symptoms of stress (e.g. counting to ten)   Often it is worth talking to your GP who may be able to refer you to counseling or other methods of support. 

Ø  Speaking with family and friends, having a support network to express how you’re feeling will help you to better cope with a situation rather than keeping it all to yourself. 

Ø  Attend local support groups, if you cannot find one start one yourself chances are others are in similar situations.      

Ø  Keep a weekly stress diary to reflect and identify specific events of what triggered the stress.

Whatever you are going through take care of yourself!!!

Optimising Home health care

Optimizing home health care enhances values and improves outcomes. modernizing the health care system allow the patient to engage with their care from the comfort of their home . Optimizing health care system helps to improve patient care and make the health system more effective and efficient in strengthening the health care service for patient at home in order to minimize their limitation in activities of daily living . check out this cool info -graphics on optimising home health care from http://www.homecaredaily.com

Hospital to Home healthcare

This day because of the causes among Medicare patients 15 % - 20 % will experience re- admission to hospital within 30 day of discharge. various studies has shown that up to 27 % of the re-admission are avoidable, especially elderly patients and those who suffer multiple diseases are vulnerable in the time of discharge when the transiting of care from facility are not managed properly. Whether in communication or lack of appropriate follow up . To make sure the patient get proper care even after discharge is by placing a transiting care co-ordinator before the transition from hospital to home. 

The transiting nurses and carer will see the patient as early as possible hopefully 24 hours before discharge , to begin to develop a relationship with the patient.  To provide support to the patient following a hospital discharge .The transiting carer and nurse will start liaising with the hospital discharge team, the family or health workers to access the patient holistic and social need, other equipment needed to aid their care at home ensuring they are in place and ready for use on your return .

Whether they are transiting directly home after a hospitalization or moving through the care through rehabilitation or medical care facility. Hospital to home healthcare service is a key to resource for safe and successful recovery process. one of the leading causes of hospital of slow post hospitization recovery is the lack of proper support of immediately following a hospital discharged .

Managing Stress

Managing Stress

Managing stress

Stress is an inevitable part of our life, how we react to it has a bearing on how significantly it affect our bodies. Stress causes physical changes.

• Increase heart rate
• Increase blood pressure
• Quicker breathing

Stress causes blood to be sent away from our gut to the big muscles in the arms and legs and blood gets ready to clot in case we start to bleed. Continuing stress can lead to health problem, causing distress to your own well-being which also impacts on those around you.

In the golden age when we lived in caves hunting and gathering, this responses help to protect us. But today if we become stress the same response occurs and long term stress is not beneficial. In order to manage stress we need to learn how our body react to it.

Solution

•  Identify what causing it

• Take steps to deal with the causes

• Talk with your doctor if stressful symptoms last for more than a few week as depression and anxiety may be developing

Social Care

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