Week 8 Competencies & Reflection

Competencies (1)

1.1 Plan assessment

1.1.1 Define the purpose and scope of the assessment.

1.1.2 Identify priority population.

Summary: Since Sarah and I have updated and changed the guidance of the care guide, this allowed us to redefine the purpose of the care guide (1.1.1). With these updates, we made sure to understand who the care guide is for, and specifically for caregivers who need information and may feel overwhelmed by their newfound role (1.1.2).

1.4 Synthesize assessment findings to inform the planning process.

1.4.2 Prioritize health education and promotion needs.

1.4.3 Summarize the capacity of priority populations to meet the needs of the priority populations.

1.4.4 Develop recommendations based on findings.

1.4.5 Report assessment findings.

Summary: Because we are moving to a more general format for the care guide, this meant understanding the new health education and promotion needs. Specifically, this includes understand dementia, understanding caregiving duties, practicing emotional wellness, and prioritizing micro-goals (1.4.2). With this approach, caregivers may feel less overwhelmed by their role and able to work through the emotional challenges of caregiving, while also working to fills the needs later deadlines (1.4.3). Once the new outline was created for these needs, we created what information and guides would be best for early-stage care and reported this to Jenay, who gave us further recommendations and goals (1.4.4 & 1.4.5).

Reflection: What, So What, What Now?

This week, Sarah and I decided that after creating and editing the traditional format of the caregiving guides, there should be updates that better reflect the purpose and goals that we want to share with caregivers. After sitting through many caregiver support meetings and meeting with Jenay, I found that the new format may better suit our goals to make a short, but informative guide that prioritizes understanding caregiving goals and emotional wellbeing. At this point, we plan to continue the rough draft of the new outline and working to complete a care guide that can be printed or at least be completed for review. Next week, I plan to continue with the designs for the early-stage care guide.