Question

Marianna is a support worker for Murray Hills Home and Community Care Services. Marianna has three children, who are all in school. She is married and her husband is in the armed forces, so he spends a lot of time away from home. Marianna works part-time for the personal care agency, and does some private cleaning at other times.

Marianna is working in a person’s home. She is running late and needs to get the person showered and dressed before heading off to her cleaning job. The person, Alexia, is sitting in a lounge chair. When Marianna tells Alexia she is ready to shower her, Alexia asks Marianna to help her out of the chair.

Marianna knows she should not help and that Alexia’s personal care support plan directs that she should instruct Alexia about proper placement of her hands and feet, bending and so on, so she can get herself up. However, this normally takes a long time and Marianna is in a hurry. She asks Alexia if she has had help from other workers to get out of her chair. Alexia says she has.

Marianna asks Alexia if she thinks she could get out of the chair alone, but Alexia says she is too tired. Marianna doesn’t think that Alexia is very heavy so she holds her under the arms and lifts her out of the chair. Marianna feels a sharp stabbing pain in her lower back when she does the lift. The pain does not go away even when Alexia is standing unsupported.

When Marianna sees her doctor, she finds that she has done serious damage to her back and is unable to do any physical work for at least three months – probably longer. She cannot sit or stand for very long and often gets pins and needles in her legs and feet.

Refer to case study 1 to answer the following question: What impact could Marianna’s actions have had on the person she was supporting?

Apart from not being able to work at the personal care agency for three months or more, list five other ways this injury may affect Marianna’s life.

                              

Answer 1

Alexia do not have any other one to help her.so,she can not do her personel hygiene such as bathing ,brushing,elimination etc.She needs to seek help from any other one send from agency to do her activities.Her home is left untidy and Her time table got changed due to the changing of caregiver.she may need time to get adjust with new person.

As she have three children she faces difficulty to look after him as she got injured.

There will be financial crisis as her husband only working.

She needs to get someone to take care of her and her children.this will enhances the economical problem.

She is unable to the private cleaning .Thus.she loss her earning.

She needs to take bed rest this can increase her mental tension which can lead to many other diseases