Reflective Account Essay

On an occasion at work I was witting of a supply part communicating very negatively, for example sighing and tutting and world(a) negativity. Supervision was due so it was brought into meeting that last had concerned had detect a change in the persons general attitude, I asked if thither was a specific reason and was told there was not. Although they concur that they were being negative. We hold forthed the workload and it was decided it was not that. It was conjureed by the cater subdivision that they were looking a little unsure of how to deal with a answer exploiter who had dementia and was unpredictable and seemed to nourish taken a dislike to the cater ingredient .We discussed at length the way forward and I coherent for some training in ch all(prenominal)enging behaviour and dementia. The staff member realised she could not avoid the usefulness drug user and that if she had menti id her concerns sooner the job would not have escalated. She tried to hide he r feelings but they were shown in a different way.I agreed to mentor and support the staff member with the service user helping her to find an appropriate approach, the service user was feeding on the negative behaviour of the staff .In a fewer weeks the situation was improved undoubtedly and the staff member is more supreme and no longer showing any sign of negativity. I preserve everything we had discussed and we both signed it. At the following supervision the staff had been on a training shop and was awaiting further news of more. She mentioned previously that she matte it was a weakness in her that is why she had tried to cover it up but since our tidings and my ongoing support she would never hesitate to mention any concerns she had in the future.I entangle that we needed to improve bodily function at the Centre the service users are a mixed meeting (physically and mentally frail) so I needed to find something they could all do and enjoy. I signed myself onto three o ne mean solar day courses with another staff member. The courses were all different but aimed at dementia sufferers. The freshman one Bringing stories to Life , I theme was going to be or so putting together a Life Story, I could not have been more wrong The ice-breaker at the author of the workshop was permitter bingo, it involved walking around so I have adapted this so that my service users are seated, we use sets of the 26 letters of the alphabet and the service user chooses a letter and then(prenominal) gives me a word beginning with that letter before answering a quiz question, which I pen down and while they are playing two alike stressful to match up.I take the words and make up a little theme or poem. The feedback from that activity has been very positive. Also from the workshop which involved exploitation props to tell a flooring I have been able to do this activity several judgment of convictions? use the props seems to help the quietest of the service user to join in and the feedback discussion afterwards have beat very enjoyable to all. The second workshop was about using pictures (not personal) to story tell. Again this activity has been very successful, there was one or two people who were unsure but has we progressed they in addition joined in.The picture is given to the service user and they are asked indeterminate ended questions about it and everything is validated. Before we start we decide who is going to scratch awl and afterwards that person will firstly read back what as been said and ask if the service users would like to add anything? When everybody is satisfied the scratch awl will type the story up and individually service user gets a copy , we keep a copy in a folder for all to look at and we also pin a copy too our notice board .The third workshop was on the equal line but using senses to make a story/poem, again we have done this a couple of times. We used a bottle of water some soil in a bag, cotton wool w ool, leaves and bubbles, we pass the items around the room one at a time and ask the service user to say the first word they thought of when looking / touching or smelling the item .one thing we came up against was that the service users said the same thing as the previous person, so we are trying to adapt this activity further.From all three workshops I and my staff member redeveloped our armchair process which we do daily. We had heard the service users discuss how they were bored with doing the same exercise week after week and earreach to the same music disc. So we put together some more upbeat music and sat and compiled our version of seated exercise ,using the same safe exercise taking advice from one of our other services maturation Well who had spent several weeks showing us seated exercise .Of course before we started any of the new activities we had a meeting with all the staff who were going to be involved. We discussed what we had learnt from each workshop and asked f or feedback from the staff, some of them mat up unsure about using the props and pictures, so me and the staff member who came with me agreed to lead the first one, we arranged a date and agreed on a theme for it and it was decided we would use props for the first one .I was to lead and the staff member was going to scribe. Before we started we went to each service user and asked them to sign a consent form to let in us to take photographs. This would allow another staff to get a little involved with out feeling to unsure .the discussion /feedback with the service users was great ,they were still talking about how much they had enjoyed themselves when they were going home.They were excited when I told them that there would be photographs to look at the following week. I discussed with the staff the following day how they felt about the activity and was sunny they were all positive. I continued to share taking the lead with the staff member who attended the training with me for s everal sessions to enable the other staff to be able to learn from us. Although with all the activities there is no remunerate or wrong way. That is why we validate everything that is said. The change in the mass of service users is a pleasure to see, even the quietest person as become much more vocal and willing to join in with near of the activities we do.One person in particular who is hard of hearing and registered projection screen joins in, when in the past he as chosen not to. He still talks about certain themes we have done the story telling to, for example at Halloween we took the opportunity to do this theme, we used pumpkins and formative spiders, I passed these things around the room and we used The Monster Mash mental strain to do some light movement to music before using props to make up a story relevant to the theme. I asked the service user to describe the spider, for example what he thought it was felt like and he got really into it and even had a photograph t aken.Since then I have heard him telling others about the day we let him hold the Tarantula and how he danced to spooky music. Changing what we do and the way we do it as had a very positive subject all the way round. We still do the other activities for example Bingo, dominoes etc.During our action plan meeting we discuss which service users are in the centre that day and adapt our activity to suit, of course what we plan for the day may change if we ask the service users they may want to do another thing so if we can we will accommodate the majority. normally the day is spent doing group work but if needed we do offer one to one.