Final Report

Running head: COMMUNITY CARE TRAINING 1

COMMUNINTY CARE TRAINING 2

Community Care Training

Joseph Toole

Introduction to Health Services and Research

South University

28 Jun 2016

Community Care Training

Community based health care system refers to the practice of administering health care at homes rather than the usual practise of taking patients into the hospitals. This is due to the fact that even in the hospitals, caregivers are usually interns and nurses whereas the doctors or the most professional care givers only attend to the patients for a very short time. Thus for the patients stay I the hospital, they always end up with huge bills for using the facility when the costs for the medication offered are usually very small. This therefore requires a reformed medical system whereby patients can still be attended to while in their homes. However implementing this comes about with some requirement of training of the care givers, addressing trends that may be felt and the setting in which the services are offered. They therefore need to be trained on how to utilize clinical information effectively hence promoting practices based on evidences, how to measure quality and satisfaction so as to better it ("Chapter 13", 2016)

. They should be trained in carrying out experiments, ways of copying up with diverse communities, training on how to reduce rates of injury at the place of work and how to present medical report.

In regards to training them how to promote evidence-based treatment, the health care practitioners should be trained on how to make good use of clinical information; this gives them primary instructions on how they can handle patients with different healthcare needs unlike when they would have been in hospitals being instructed by doctors. They should be trained on how to analyse and identify cases of injury that may need special attention. This is because they may not have all the facilities at hand or have a doctor or a more qualified professional who would otherwise identify the depth of the patients’ problems ("Chapter 13", 2016). In hospital based medication, medical reporting is done by other designated analysers, however in community based health system, the analysers who will also be the care givers should be trained on how to write and present precise medical report that can be read and understood by any other qualified professional in the field of medicine. A very critical and very mandatory training would be on how the practitioners can carry out small clinical experiments. These clinical experiments are the primary basis of what kind of medication a patient receives. Another important aspect of training is the sociability and diversity of the care givers. In a community setting we have very different kinds of people who want or need to be handled in different ways, thus training the practitioners on being social and handling different patients would be a crucial step to undertake. On matters of security, different people behave differently in certain situations. The practitioners should be trained on how to assess the security of the environment or the setting in which they are offering care. This is because patients react differently to medicines and gender of the care givers and may result in harming the practitioner. Also handling sophisticated medical equipment would be an important step to learn. The health-care providers will be required to fix and dismantle this equipment all the time thus needs to know how to precisely do it ("Chapter 13", 2016).

The trends to address are the academic qualifications of the practitioners and monitoring of unlicensed professionals. Many professionals are multi-skilled and this can affect the quality of services they offer, thus there should be scrutinization of their skills and the kind of responsibilities they are given ("Education and Training of the Rural Healthcare Workforce Introduction - Rural Health Information Hub", 2016). The unlicensed care givers can pose some health risk to patients as they may not approach the task appropriately thus they need to be monitored closely to avoid complications on health status of the sick. So as to avoid high rates of cases of injury, there need to be a strict adherence to Occupational Safety and Health Administration models that allow a joint working relationship between the practitioners and their managers to reduce cases of injuries occurring at the place of work. There need to be allocation of adequate resources from the federal government to help in ensuring that most of the medical equipment are available as this kind of practise would need independence of working places as the facilities may not be used jointly or shared by the patients as in the case of hospital-based system whereby the oxygen cylinders can be shared by the patients ("Education and Training of the Rural Healthcare Workforce Introduction - Rural Health Information Hub", 2016). By adhering to the above recommendations, the physician will not be limited in their operations as they may be able to work independently and therefore will perform better as their skills will have been enhanced at greater depth. Also this improves the relationship between the patients and the practitioners as they feel that they are being given a personalised care.

References

Chapter 13.(2016). Archive.ahrq.gov. Retrieved 28 June 2016, from http://archive.ahrq.gov/hcqual/meetings/mar12/chap13.html

Education and Training of the Rural Healthcare Workforce Introduction - Rural Health Information Hub.(2016). Ruralhealthinfo.org. Retrieved 28 June 2016, from https://www.ruralhealthinfo.org/topics/workforce-education-and-training