Understanding Health and Wellbeing and Conditions: A Person-Centered Approach

Part A Understanding Health and Wellbeing

The learning outcomes assessed in this assignment are:

• Describe their understanding of factors that contribute to health and wellbeing.
• Describe an understanding of specific conditions and the impact those conditions have on people they support in a health and wellbeing setting.
• Apply a person-centered approach for a range of specific conditions within their workplace setting.

Instructions 

Remember to use an alias instead of the real names of the people you’re writing about.

You will need at least two tangata whaiora that you can use as case studies for this assignment.

Part A Understanding health and wellbeing

1. Choose two t?ngata whaiora you work with who come from different cultural backgrounds (Note: these may be the same two you use for Part B). Obtain the consent of the t?ngata whaiora for the case studies and ensure anonymity.

2. Talk with each tangata whaiora and ask them:

what is their definition of health and wellbeing

where does their definition come from

how does their definition of health and wellbeing link to how they live their life?

3. Compare and contrast the two different answers you receive to your own understanding of factors that contribute to health and wellbeing. Describe how having this knowledge of the cultural differences helps you work in a person-centered way.

Part B Understanding conditions

1. Choose two t?ngata whaiora you work with who have different conditions. One of these t?ngata whaiora must have co-existing conditions. Obtain the consent of the t?ngata whaiora for the case studies and ensure anonymity.

2. For each tangata whaiora, describe their condition under the following headings:

Description of the condition(s)

Observable or measurable signs and symptoms of condition

Causes and risk factors of condition

Progression of condition.

3. For each tangata whaiora, describe the impacts of their condition(s) on themselves, others, and society.

4. For each tangata whaiora, explain the factors that contribute to their usual state of health and wellbeing.

5. Describe the changes others could make to meet the needs and preferences of each tangata whaiora.

6. Describe how you work with each tangata whaiora in a person-centred way to meet the challenges and impacts of their condition. You must describe at least two aspects of the person-centred approach for each tangata whaiora.

7 . Workplace verification.

Student instructions for workplace verification

For Part A and Part B you need to select two tangata whaiora appropriate for the task and gain their permission to use their stories as a case study for this assignment. Your workplace verifier will verify that these case studies are true and correct and that you have gained their consent to use their stories as case studies for your assignment.

For Part B Task 6 you need to demonstrate that you work in a person-centred way with each tangata whaiora to help meet the challenges and impacts of their condition and have this verified by your workplace verifier. 

Please make sure you have fully completed all written tasks in this assignment before asking your verifier to complete this verification form.

Your tutor may contact your verifier to discuss their comments.

Please fill out your name and workplace on the workplace verification form and give it to your authorised workplace verifier (as on the workplace agreement submitted to the Open Polytechnic) to complete.

When they have completed this form, please return it, along with the rest of your assignment to your tutor for marking.

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Verifier instructions

You have been asked to complete this verification as the workplace verifier of the student /staff member. This assignment asks your staff member to provide details on differing views of health and wellbeing, common conditions, and the person-centred approach.

You need to be confident that the information they have provided is true and correct.

Please check and discuss the following sections of the assignment with your staff member before commenting on and signing this verification form.

Part A and Part B: All case studies used are true and correct and consent has been gained to use their stories in this assignment.

 

Part B Task 6The staff member has demonstrated that they work in a person-centred way with each tangata whaiora to help meet the challenges and impacts of their condition. 

If you agree that the staff member has accurately and fully completed these tasks, please provide feedback and then sign and date the workplace verification form on the following page.

If you do not agree that the staff member has fully completed these tasks, please provide feedback to the staff member and discuss the requirements that do accurately and fully complete the tasks.