YOUR IDT or RESIDENT CARE TEAM or RESIDENT CARE CONFERENCE

 

Resident Care Team

IDT

---Here is a picture of ''Your Care Team,'' [IDT], or ''Interdisciplinary Team.'' The team is made up of physicians, nurses, dietitians, activity therapists and other staff. As far as your stay in Laguna Honda Hospital I feel this is the best way to optimize your time while here. It is where the rubber meets the road. Your Care Plan will be developed for you based on your clinical's team assessment of you.

---Your needs + preferences are taken into consideration along with the list of medical needs with which you present. You are allegedly residing in a unit that best meets your clinical needs. Your active participation with your care planning is encouraged, valued and will help make your care plan more effective. Your family or other relations involved in making decisions regarding your care if you have that need, called surrogate decision makers, may also contribute to your care planning. You or you and your surrogate will be notified by your social worker of all quarterly team meetings.

---Your Care Team will meet with you regularly to evaluate your appropriate level of skilled nursing care and clerical needs. If the assigned Care Unit is no longer the optimal place to address your needs, you may be relocated to a more appropriate unit. Your cooperation and input within this process is greatly appreciated.

---I always thought that the following would be a huge-plus to the care of the patient. That would be if someone from your Care Team was assigned to be your ''Go -To'' person. He or she will meet with you on a regular basis until no longer necessary, especially as you begin your stay at LHH. He/she will answer questions and help to orient you to your new surroundings and to keep the tenets of your last Care Team Conference (provided you had one,) going. He or she will keep  your next RCC fresh in your mind. He or she jots down requests or questions that you may have over the course of the three months whose answer needs to come from your Care Team. He or she is responsible for ''how things are going for you...on the unit (and the hospital) overall.'' The ''Go -To'' person is NOT in place as I think it should be.

ORIGINALLY WRITTEN IN OLD HOSPITAL

THE BETTER THE CARE TEAM KNOWS YOU or THE BETTER YOU KNOW THE CARE TEAM, THE BETTER THE RESULTS.

THE BETTER ONE KNOWS HIM/HER SELF, THE BETTER HE/SHE WILL DO IN LIFE!

MASLOW'S HIERARCHY of NEEDS

 Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs

Maslow’s hierarchy of needs is a theory that was proposed by psychologist Abraham Maslow in a 1943 paper titled A Theory of Human Motivation. The theory describes, in five stages, what he believed to be necessary for human subsistence and satisfaction.

THE FIVE STAGES

Maslow’s hierarchy is intended to track growth and development in human beings, beginning with infants, who aim to have only their most basic needs met. Typically, people reach different stages of the hierarchy throughout life, and at different times they might experience a deficit in a certain stage. When this occurs, a person will often temporarily abandon pursuit of a higher stage in order to have the more fundamental needs met. However, not all adult humans reach the top of the hierarchy, and poverty, illness, and other factors can interfere with a person’s development in Maslow’s hierarchy.

People who have not had their needs met in one area might also have their needs from another stage sufficiently met. For example, a person in poor health who has little financial security may be part of a community, have an intimate partner, and maintain close relationships with family and friends. Thus, the person’s safety needs are not adequately met, but community and belonging needs are. One might also have every fundamental need met but suddenly experience a threat to safety and shelter. In order to maintain this essential of survival, that person may then leave off pursuit of esteem or belonging needs until the threat to safety passes.

Maslow’s hierarchy originally contained five stages:

Physiological needs: These are the needs necessary to maintain life: oxygen, food, and water. These basic needs are required by all animals and are the primary focus of infants.

1. Safety needs: When an individual’s physiological needs are met, the focus typically shifts to safety needs, which may include health, freedom from war, and financial security.

2. Community and belonging: If safety and physiological needs are met, a person will focus on the need for a community and love. These needs are typically met by friends, family, and romantic partners.

3. Esteem: Esteem is necessary for self-actualization, and a person may work to achieve esteem once needs for love and a sense of belonging are met. Self-confidence and acceptance from others are important components of this need.

4. Self-actualization: Self-actualization is the ability to meet one’s true potential, and the necessary components of self-actualization vary from person to person. A scientist may be self-actualized when able to complete research in a chosen field. A father might be self-actualized when able to competently care for his children.

Between esteem and self-actualization, Maslow later added cognitive and aesthetic needs, which refer to what he considered the needs of academics and artists, respectively.

Viktor Frankl, a prominent 20th century psychologist and the founder of logotherapy, later added self-transcendence as a final stage in Maslow’s hierarchy, bringing the total number of stages to eight. This level concerns an individual’s ability to experience spirituality and relate to the larger universe.

MASLOW’S HIERARCHY AND MENTAL WELL-BEING

Maslow argued that the failure to have needs met at various stages of the hierarchy could lead to illness, particularly psychiatric illness or mental health issues. Individuals whose physiological needs are not met may die or become extremely ill. When safety needs are not met, posttraumatic stress may occur. Individuals who do not feel love or belonging may experience depression or anxiety. Lack of esteem or the inability to self-actualize may also contribute to depression and anxiety.

References:

1. Huitt, W. (2007). Maslow’s hierarchy of needs. Educational Psychology Interactive. Valdosta, GA: Valdosta State University. Retrieved from http://www.edpsycinteractive.org/topics/regsys/maslow.html

2. Martin, D., & Joomis, K. (2007). Building teachers: A constructivist approach to introducing education. Belmont, CA: Thomson/Wadsworth.

3. Maslow’s Hierarchy. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://changingminds.org/explanations/needs/maslow.htm

IMPORTANT: REAL NEEDS BEING MET!

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