There needs to be less talk and more action on what
is happening with vulnerable people today such as people with disabilities and
health problems. Vulnerable people have had enough of this country walking over
us.
Today the benefit system is far high and there are
far many people who don’t need to be on it as well as the people who do. Nine
times out of ten the people who are on it for a very good reason don’t want to
be on the benefit system and we want to work but there are many who are on the
benefit system who don’t to work and they tell the benefit system they have
reasons not to work when they don’t.
A lot of services and benefits are been cut.
Everyone knows that the government is wanting save money but it’s all been
taken out on the wrong people nine times out of ten. A lot people with
disabilities and health problems are suffering for this not those people who
have nothing wrong with them.
With a lot of services not able to help people
through the cuts, many people with disabilities and health problems have been
trying to access help for a long time for their needs, to a point many are
suffering in silent because there’s no pointing asking anymore.
Now the NHS is in risk of going private, which I am
aware is a worry to a lot of people but also vulnerable people, which is another
risk for people to stop using services altogether and suffer in silent. I am
more than curtained it seems that Anxiety and Depression is just as common in
other people as well as the vulnerable caused by the tough times of today.
Surely vulnerable people’s lives matter as much as
everyone’s. It’s so wrong to put vulnerable people in a position of blame of being
hard work to society and costing too much. It feels as if we have been blame
for being the way we are on purpose which we haven’t and we are not to blame
for having been born in the first place. It’s most unfair to leave us to spend
all our lives proving ourselves to other for the way we are and why.
People are getting very little support or none at
all. The sad thing is as Learning Disability nurses you may come across with
very few or no patients of all who have been through the benefit cuts. The
reason why I sad is because many people are suffering silent because of the
lack of help through the cuts. If you do face patient who have been through the
benefit cuts in different ways so you know how much work you need to do, you
need to be checking how much help they have been getting from elsewhere. For
them to see you, if they have been going through the benefit cuts, it’s likely
to be very little help or none at all that they have accessed from other places
which could even include the gps and other health services.
All the same though check with your manager first
if you can do these jobs but all the same these people's’ health matters.
· Help
and treatment the patient has had from their GP.
· If
you feel the GPs haven’t done enough then sorry to say it’s your job if the
person’s life is likely to be at serious risk which I can handy see the person
seeing you in the first place if not.
· How
much help has the patient had from other disabilities and health services.
· Are
there places that have done their job wrongly and put the person’s life at
risk?
· Has
this person any kind of support such as a carer, support worker or family
member?
· Most
people may face stress at the Jobcentre, which could affect their mental health
such as Anxiety and Depression.
· It’s
likely to be the same if they have been wrongly signed off fit to work by such
companies as DWP.
· You
may have to write up notes of proof if you are really curtained to how your
patient has been treated by other places one way or the other for eg; if they
are in a job they can’t manage without support or anywhere either else that may
put their life, health and safety at risk.
· You
may need to put something in writing to somewhere if certain help is completely
necessary but ask your manager first if you’re not sure whether or you can do
that job.
· If
they are waiting for an appeal the chances are they are finding it hard to
access food because food banks can only access so much, you may need to keep on
their weight but tell them if you have certain, what they need to do and what
you do.
· For
eg; if there’s an underweight problem and they haven’t been able to eat properly
ask them if they have been facing dizzy spells or and feeling sick.
· Write
things down in front of them and show them what you have put down.
· Many
health professions have written down the opposite to what they have said to
patients and others have waited to write things up after patient has gone.
· When
they worry about not being able to affront to feed themselves pay bills and
etc, that’s where the Anxiety and Depression kicks in which is even worse if
they suffer from Anxiety and Depression anyway.
· You
may even need to put something in writing to somewhere if certain help for
person is necessary within that person’s needs, which could mean referral but
all the same depending if the management of the place you work allows it, speak
your manager if you think it’s really necessary.
· If
the patient brings any prove of anything serious they have gone through take
time and effort to read, if you are seriously curtained tell the patient your
manager need to be told mainly you’re not sure what to do about whatever.
· It’s
important to keep things private that have anything to do with the patient but
if something is necessary and serious enough it is your duty to tell the
patient that you need to tell your manager or even put something in writing to
them and reasons why.
· The
reason for this if whatever gets worse and your patient contacts where you work
and speaks to either your manager or another member of staff you could well be
at risk of losing your job.
What
cases are likely to be necessary?
Such Mental health problems
as Anxiety and Depression make you sensitive to even the briefest situations
but for example if a person’s benefit has been cut to a put they can’t affront
eat and keep their home well that’s major crisis to anyone isn’t it. It causes
them to not think straight at the time of crisis and for the lack of help due
the cuts, and then it’s hard for a lot of people to think positive. What would
you see as a serious matter? What do you think mental health problems can do to
people? Never think that you are always going face a patient doing this but
never think you won’t face it sometime or ever so often. You need to report you
certain about your patient if for example.
· If
your patient tries to take an overdose.
· If
your patient has a nervous breakdown in front of you.
People with
disabilities and health problems tend to have negative experiences under the
health care systems as much as the elderly through lack of communication,
understanding and neglect.
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