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Uploaded by ShannanDevitt on Dec 15, 2016
Title of Assignment: Intellectual Disability work experience assignment.
Date of Submission: 8th December 2015.
Estimated Word Count: Approximately 3000 Words.
Brief introduction of assignment guidelines:
Demonstrate the use of Roper, Logan and Tierney (RLT) Activities of Living Model (Roper et al. 1996) for assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating the care of a service user with an intellectual disability from your current placement. Outline a presentation(s) of a service user with an intellectual disability from your current placement. This can be outlined in the appendix if you wish so as not to exceed your word count. By using the systematic approach to care, discuss how you would: (1) assess; (2) plan; (3) implement; and (4) evaluate the care in relation to your presentation(s). Demonstrate your ability to work with and communicate effectively with other members of the team involved in this service user’s care.
*Please note: I have ensured that I adhere to the principles of patient anonymity and confidentiality when referring to my chosen scenario. No clinical sites or patient names were referred to in my work. I used pseudonyms throughout. Also any assessment tools mentioned throughout this assignment will be placed as appendices in the back of this paper.
This assignment is going to explore the assessment of care, plan of care, implementation of care and evaluation of care in relation to my presentation. According to (Roper, et al., 1980) ‘The Roper Logan Tierney Model for nursing is a theory of nursing care based on activities of daily living, which are often abbreviated ADLs or ALs'.
During my work placement I was working in an intellectual disability school with children. I was caring for children with a variety of behavioural problems, intellectual disabilities and physical disabilities ranging from mild to moderate to severe. One child that stood out to me was Jack. Jack was a 3 year old boy with Multiple Sclerosis (MS).
Firstly I decided to look a little further into Multiple Sclerosis to gain a deeper understanding of the disease. Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is a progressive neurological disorder that can affect various parts of our central nervous system (CNS) (Das et al, 2012). MS is a degenerative inflammatory disease, which affects the central nervous system (White et al, 2004). The central nervous system is a very important part of the body; this is due to the central nervous system being responsible for the brain and spinal cord (Schnell, 1999). The central...