Question

Write a reflection on promoting autonomy and dignity of clients

Answer 1

* PATIENT AUTONOMY & The right of patients to make decisions about their medical care without their health care provider trying to influence the decision. - Patient autonomy does allow for health care provides to educate patient but docht allow health care providers to make the decision for patict. WAYS TO PROMOTE AUTONOMY : - Creat choices within boundaries, - Provide took to reach goals. - Build trust - Mistakes will be made - Calm down. - Empowering the client to display initiative in meaningful occupations - Increasing the clients enfluence during Potervention - Negotiating with client : Most of Occupational therapish (80%) were concerned a client's choices in everyday decision making were not always realistic. The occupational therapist should negotiate with them to reach realistic Compromise.

- Soot - allow Supporting client's choices in meaningful Occupation. Occupational therapists use different strategies to promote Autonomy of the client by increasing the influence of client, ranging from goal setting by therapist to negotiating with client & Supporting client choices and CLIENT DIGNITY : Obsaving dignity of patients is an important aspect of ethics and ethical caring. Dignity b e fundamental to well being of Every individual It is the basic chuman right for all. Dignity chas a definings - Respect, autonomy, Empowermeent & Communication Caregivers should keep in mind the following to help clients to maintain dignity. 0 Include them - Prelude person in everything So that they feel as it happening with them not to them. ② Try to provide Cover - Try to show them the you are providing some privacy. initiative ng intervention, -cerned making occupational em to reach

- If you are helping the person to od dressed, look down or away as you do so Speople gestures like this can help them maintain more dernity Moms the Word - Caregivers must take their privacy seriously clants need to kres! that their needs & issuas will not become gossip and discovered with ouides