Oh what can I say other than I have a million and one things going through my head and I am not sure how fast or in the right order they will come out but I am a little blown away and I am not too sure if that is a good thing or a bad.
The first thing I did when I got there was to sit down with the giant policies and procedures there was 10 section to it and I only went through 2 there was so much to get through I only wrote a brief description of each on and I had filled three pages of A4 I think I may need to set an action plan regarding taking notes to jot things down.
I felt a little like a spare part but the dep manager made me feel so welcome
I was able to walk in and spend time with the residents and I was able to walk away when personal care was needed this in its self was alien to me due to me working in care homes before I was used to getting scrubbed in and helping out, one thing that was strange was in the past we weren’t really advised to sit down with the resident which in itself broke my heart. It was very refreshing to see staffs are encouraged to go and sit with residents and help calm anxiety by some contact and reassurance.
I had a very strange day I thought I knew dementia due to working with residents before but I do not these resident are not just to lovely confused residents, many have underlying mental health issues and illnesses which makes it much harder to help them. Violence out of fear is an often occurrence, training is adamant within this profession to be able to sensitive restrain someone for their own safety.
it was such a wonderful home the staff and the residents are lovely and I really do think I will love this placement so so much I am already looking forward to next week.
I will sure try and keep writing in this blog it will be nice to just type..
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