Nursing Degree
The certification will help in understanding the duties and the challenges of caring for the elderly. A nursing degree will provide skills that are needed in caregiving for the elderly. Caring for the ageing in society requires a conducive environment both for the clients and their families. This can only be achieved through nursing certification. The certificate will help in ensuring that the caregiver can adhere to medication schedules for the elderly as well as ensuring hygiene.
Moreover, Nursing degree will be useful in dealing with older people in different scenarios. For instance, in handling their physical, mental and emotional behavioural issues. The nursing course will help care for the elderly since it has provided necessary skills, preparation and knowledge on how to provide both essential and specialized care to the elderly. Nurses will provide skilled care arising from illness or consequences from medications.
These techniques are elaborately addressed in the nursing course that I have completed. A nursing degree will help address behavioural challenges of the patients and their families, for example, in identifying and handling abusive or aggressive clients. Clients exhibiting symptoms such as depression may also require a different set of skills to handle. Therefore, examining and recognizing the cause of emotional stress will be useful in assisting the elderly.
How the certificate of the conference will be helpful.
The certificate of the conference will be useful in future as it has provided essential knowledge on how to identify and handle mental disorders among the elderly. Furthermore, it provides ways of improving the mental health of the ageing population. Dealing with dementia and depression among the elderly requires a deep understanding of the causes and the underlying conditions. The knowledge and information acquired from the conference are vital in handling these neurological disorders.
The conference provided an avenue for learning how to provide social support to the patients. Further, it highlighted ways on how to enhance the emotional and physical health of the individuals, including the ageing population. Strategies and promotive actions to employ were discussed during the conference.
Additionally, knowledge from the conference will help in addressing anxiety as well as critical, carrying out a crucial diagnosis for substance abuse among the elderly. During the meeting, we were able to learn some of the ways to handle neurological and mental disorders such as optimal management of cases, treatment and detection, provision of information and early diagnosis. Therefore, attending the conference equipped the learners with the necessary skills to promote and care for the emotional and mental health among the elderly and possible interventions.
How research certificate will be useful in future.
Researching how to assess psychological problems and the findings will help in handling the psychological needs of the elderly in future. The research will help in identifying the different mental disorders facing elderly individuals and devise ways to handle the challenges associated with psychological disorders such as schizophrenia and depression. The research will also be useful in future because it will prepare the social worker on how to handle the emotional burden of the elderly as well as recognizing the consequences that their work will have on their personal goals and quality of life. The research unveiled ways to create boundaries and limitations between the social worker and the clients to prevent burnout arising from work overload.