care of the dying and procedures after death
INCONTINENCE AND CONSTIPATION
Incontinence is a major concern in many Homes, where some residents are not able to control their bladder or their bowels.
Incontinence is a difficult problem because it isn’t just a problem with physical symptoms.
Lack of control brings humiliation and embarrassment for the person concerned and the actual physical discomfort of having wet or soiled clothing and extra work for the care assistant which he or she may find unpleasant.
Many people are surprised to find that when someone becomes incontinent they don’t have to stay that way.
There are a number of reasons for incontinence, and these come under two broad headings, physical and environmental. These are discussed in more detail in this chapter.
Many health authorities employ a continence adviser who is a registered nurse with further training in managing incontinence.
If you feel that specialist advice would be helpful for anyone in your care, you should try and obtain it through your manager or warden. You may find it helpful to take a short course on managing continence.
You can also get more detailed information from the Continence Advisory Service at the Disabled Living Foundation (see page 134 for address). Physical causes of incontinence
Disease and infection
This can be a major cause of incontinence.
Among the most common are urinary tract infections, which should always be treated by the GP.
Chronic conditions such as diabetes and weakness after a stroke may also lead to incontinence.
The nerves become damaged and are no longer able to control the functions of bladder and bowels.
Some men have an additional problem because an enlarged prostate gland can cause almost permanent incontinence. What you can do
Make sure that any drugs such as antibiotics prescribed by the doctor are taken as directed.
Treatment may include helping the person to regain control of the bladder with help from a community nurse or continence adviser.
The normal practice is to take someone who is incontinent, and who may also be confused and to the toilet at regular intervals and before meals.
Some species are even capable of sheding their tails without any contact at all.
If such a lizard is caught by the body, it is still the tail that snaps off and separating from its base independently of any external pressure.
It might seem obvious that if weak points are going to evolve in the tails of lizards they would do so between the vertebrae. But this is not the case.
Strangely and the fracture planes pass through the middle of the vertebrae and not in the spaces between them.
In a typical lizard, every tail vertebra from the sixth one onwards has a special “plane of weakness” where a thin layer of cartilage replaces the stronger, bony tissue.
At these points there are also constrictions in the blood vessels and nerves, and weaknesses in the connective tissues.
So, when the circular muscles of the tail perform their sudden, massive contraction and the whole of the tail section disconnects with ease.
Because of the constrictions in the blood vessels ” rather like the necks of hour-glasses ” there is practically no loss of blood and the blunt end of the tail-stump quickly dries off and hardens.
Many lizards and such as the green lizard (above) and the blue-tailed skink (below), are capable of breaking off their tails when they are molested.
A dropped tail continues to wriggle and keeping the attention of the predator focused on it while the prey makes its escape.
The mutilated lizard will then slowly regrow a new tail, although it is usually rather imperfect. A lizard without its tail is at a considerable disadvantage.
The tail is used in running and swimming, balancing and climbing, not to mention courtship and display.
Lizards that have lost their tails by autotomy do not live as long as those that manage to retain them, nor do they breed as efficiently.
But they do at least survive, and after a period of time will be able to regrow their tails.
This is a slow and imperfect process, but it does give them back most of their original caudal functions.
The only attribute their regrown tail lacks totally is the capacity to be discarded again.
This is because it does not develop ordinary vertebrae, but contains instead a central rod of cartilage.
This provides a rudder that is capable of assisting in balancing and locomotion, but has no break-points for further “tail-dropping”.
The age of the lizard is important in determining the quality of its second tail. A young lizard can regrow one that is almost as long as the original.
An older lizard tends to produce a somewhat abbreviated and stumpy appendage, and sometimes the regeneration goes horribly wrong and the unfortunate animal finds itself growing not one but two or even three new tails at once.
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by selecting items from catalogues issued by manufacturers and wholesalers by sending an official order form
by writing to a manufacturer, or using a printed enquiry form, asking for a quotation Order forms
In most cases and the retailer will be familiar with a manufacturer’s range of products and will be ordering further supplies of an item he usually stocks. The request will be entered on an order form like the one below: The order form will include some or all of the following information: 1
The shop’s name and address
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The name and address of the supplier
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A reference number
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The date of the order
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The date of delivery
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The quantities of goods required
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Description of the goods
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Price of the goods
Only 300 000 people watch TV-AM compared with 1.6 million who tune into the BBC’s rival show. This also offers precious little science.
But people who have rigged up a television in their bedroom or kitchen and to watch the much-advertised breakfast TV shows are finding that some programmes that are quietly transmitted on BBC2 every morning at the same time are often far more interesting.
Each morning at around 6 am the BBC opens up with an uninterrupted series of Open University films.
Although these are intended to complement written work and they almost always stand up in their own right. Half the fun of viewing them is that subjects come up at random. A film on statistical analysis will follow one on blood clotting.
Then there’s something on Newton’s laws of motion and the Voyager mission, a fascinating insight into Victorian physics and a reminder of long forgotten sixth form electronics.
Obviously plenty of people find it more interesting than anything breakfast TV has to offer.
Since mid-January and the Open University’s information service at Milton Keynes has been astonished to receive a record 1711 letters from people who are not OU students but who want to know more about the schedules for OU transmissions. A case for formentation
IF YOU ARE sufficiently distinguished you may well be lucky enough to be invited to address the prestige conference Advances in Fermentation “83 to be held in September.
You may well be asked by the conference director, Norman T. Shepherd to submit a synopsis.
If this is approved and the invitation would well be followed by a firm brief to produce a paper that could, at the BBC approved rate of reading, last anything from seven minutes to a little over an hour, at your discretion.
If then your paper proves suitable you will be told that to register for Advances in Fermentation “83, organised by Process Biochemistry, Penn House, Rickmansworth, Herts WD3 1SN would normally cost £152. But as a speaker you will be asked to pay only £100.
Isn’t that nice.
LETTERS
Leaden loyalties
I am glad to see from your report of the psychiatrist Professor Michael Rutter’s lecture at the Royal Institution that despite his former membership of the Lawther Working Party on lead pollution, Rutter now acknowledges that the hazard from lead in petrol is so serious as to require a total ban (This Week, 3 March, p 567).
But I am puzzled by his apparent need to combine such praiseworthy recantation with a personal attack on myself, while elsewhere in his lecture piously deploring the introduction of personalities into the debate.
For the hazard he now claims to recognise is essentially that which several of us have been patiently trying to explain to psychiatrists and others for the past twelve years or so and one which is now officially acknowledged in several overseas countries. No matter.
I salute him for having the courage to come off the fence; though he leaves many of his colleagues still perching there.
For the record, Rutter and I now appear to be essentially in agreement on the lead-in-petrol hazard, and in accepting that the effects of lead on children’s intelligence is real. We continue to differ on two aspects.
First, Rutter regards as comparatively small the reductions of two to seven points in IQ now being associated with lead pollution, whereas I view such effects as extremely serious when they are suffered by a major proportion of a whole generation of urban children.
Rutter himself had earlier pointed out that a drop of only five points in the mean IQ of a population, with unchanged distribution, will double the number of mentally retarded children having an IQ less than 70.1.
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The flocks disperse very rapidly in the second half of March and sizable flocks are rare after the end of this month.
Although present in Langstone Harbour there are now no beds of Zostera species in either Sussex estuary, although these certainly existed in the early years of this century, and Z. angustifolia was recorded near the Hayling shore of Chichester Harbour as recently as 1963.
But substantial beds of green algae are present and appear to have spread in recent years; they are probably continuing to do so. The Brent now appear to feed mainly on these plants.
However and the geese also fed extensively on grass marsh round Chichester Harbour after 1973/74, and Campbell (1946), during a study of the food of Wigeon and Brent Geese in Britain and recorded animal matter in the stomachs of three Brent from Essex and five from Ulster, out of a total of 28 stomachs examined.
Thus the feeding requirements of this bird may prove less inflexible than usually supposed.
Away from Chichester and Pagham Harbours these geese are scarce in Sussex, but small parties occur briefly in most winters in many coastal localities, particularly the Pett/Rye area.
They are rarely found on inland waters, although and since it is established that some of our winter visitors migrate over the interior of the county and such records are likely from time to time.
There is a regular easterly passage along the coast in spring, between late February and late April, with peak numbers usually occurring in March.
The numbers recorded annually vary widely and ranging from under 100 to nearly 3,000 in recent springs.
A westerly return movement occurs between mid-October and December, but fewer birds are noticed.
The extent to which the Sussex population is involved in these movements is unknown, but at least some of our wintering birds move overland, and parties have been reported over Kingley Vale, Eartham, and West Chiltington recently, usually in spring. The reports suggest that large numbers are sometimes involved. RED-BREASTED GOOSE “Branta ruficollis
Status.” One record.
One was seen in the Amberley/Pulborough marshes between 8 and 17 February 1958. RUDDY SHELDUCK “Tadorna ferruginea
Status.” Vagrant.
There have been no acceptable records since 1940 which have not been considered as most likely to have escaped from collections.
Among old records there is evidence of irruptions in September 1890, when single birds were obtained at Harting and Selsey; October 1892, when at least seven were seen or obtained between Eastbourne and Selsey, and August and September 1940, when six were shot at Rye Harbour.
Walpole-Bond also records several on 8 September 1884 and during April 1885 and two of which were shot.
The CCDP argues that the known side-effects of the drug, medroxyprogesterone, have been played down by Upjohn and the medical experts it has called.
And it says that prospective Depo patients need more detailed information of the drug’s method of action and side-effects if they are to give truly informed consent.
The committee bases its views on the experience of Depo’s use in conditions for which it already has a licence.
It cites cases in which the use of the drug to prevent medically-undesirable conception after childbirth has resulted in more or less continuous bleeding. This may only cease on withdrawal of the drug.
Such bleeding has also occurred in women given Depo after vaccination against German measles.
Other evidence shows that, as the level of Depo in the body falls, conception may occur, making the fetus susceptible to the drug’s effects.
Experiments on animals have shown that Depo causes feminisation of male fetuses and masculinisation of female fetuses in the same litter.
The drug also finds it way to the mother’s milk and so could exert its effects on newborn children.
Since the company made its appeal ” and contrary to their current data sheet for the drug ” Upjohn has recommended delaying Depo injections until the sixth week after childbirth.
The coordinating committee suggests that the appeal panel ask why this change has been made, and when Upjohn proposes to inform doctors of the change. Metro fleur-de-Lille
THE £230 million Lille metro was opened last week by France’s President Mitterrand.
The metro is the first full-scale railway system to have driverless trains and it can run up to 60 two-car trains an hour during peak periods (New Scientist . 3 June 1982, p 644).
The trains run on special rubber tyres, which have solid insides to prevent accidents caused by a train getting a fiat tyre. The first 13 kilometre line of the metro has opened on time. Lille eventually hopes to have a 70 kilometre network.
American court upholds ban on nuclear plants
AMERICA’S highest court jolted the nuclear power industry last week by allowing individual states to ban new reactors until a way is found to dispose permanently of highly radioactive spent fuel.
No permanent repository for spent nuclear fuel will be available until the late 1990s.
So the ruling by the Supreme Court in Washington could be devastating for the industry.
The decision affects only new plants, however ” not the 80 or so stations now working or the 57 under construction.
And and since no one has ordered a new nuclear plant since 1978 and none are in the offing and the decision is academic and say industry spokesmen. Not so, according to elated opponents of nuclear power.
The courts now hold that any of America’s 50 states can snub new nuclear plants for economic or technological reasons unrelated to the safety or cost of the reactor itself.
“Even though the plant may be okay,” explains David Berick of the Environmental Policy Center in Washington, “it’s [viability]is intimately linked to other technology.”
Local power authorities have only recently considered what waste disposal will cost ratepayers, when they compare nuclear energy to coal or hydroelectric alternatives.
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Feedback
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Readiness.
Contiguity
Contiguity refers to the simultaneous occurrence of stimuli and responses in learning.
In the classical conditioning experiment and the two stimuli were presented simultaneously.
Operant conditioning involves contiguity, in that the reinforcing event follows closely the production of a response. Contiguity is necessary in all forms of learning.
Practice
Practice is the repetition of responses and is necessary for learning to become permanent.
It is more important in simpler forms of learning such as skill learning when it usually means repetition.
In complex learning such as problem-solving, it can mean having the opportunity to perform further activities within a particular class of problems. Feedback
The third necessary condition is the provision of various forms of feedback to the student.
During the process of learning the student is working to achieve something; knowledge of how close her performance is approximating to the desired goal not only has a motivating effect, but if given in sufficient detail provides information which enables her to adjust her learning nearer to the goal.
In the early stages of learning a task, feedback in the form of words such as”good” and “well done”should be provided more frequently and immediately.
Errors too should be pointed out immediately and so that they can be corrected before they have become established.
Later, as the student becomes more proficient and she will provide her own feedback and the teacher may delay or withhold comments.
Setting intermediate goals and providing an assessment of them is another way that feedback can help the student adjust her learning.
The ideal end state is reached when the student can accurately assess her own performance, but this will only occur after periods of meeting externally set requirements. Readiness to learn
The final set of conditions we shall consider can be represented by the term “readiness to learn”.
By this is meant that the student must have the prerequisite knowledge and skills to begin learning the task.
All too often students have difficulty or fail in their learning because they have an imperfect grasp of some concept, or because they have not learned some particular skill.
Gagné has provided a formula by which we may detect what is missing from a student’s repertoire.
It also provides a structure that links together different types of learning in a logical way and can provide a structure for planning and sequencing learning.
Types of learning are distinguished, and are arranged in an hierarchical way so that earlier types are necessary conditions for later types of learning. The final type is the solving of problems.
Categories are as follows:
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Dressing can he hard for a resident with stiff or arthritic fingers, or whose limbs do not move easily into clothing. Try to make dressing as easy as possible.
Check what the resident would like to wear and that clothes are clean, and put them to hand if the person cannot move easily.
Encourage all residents, however disabled and to dress themselves as much as they can.
When you help a disabled person to dress, always start by putting the garment ” trouser leg and sleeve, etc ” on the leg or arm with the most disability. Undress that limb last, when taking garments off.
Every resident should have a choice in what they wear, including colour and material. Give advice on what is easy to care for and put on.
Avoid high necks, back zips and buttons.
Review the wardrobe regularly and suggest that the resident buys replacements. Report any shortage of clothing to a senior member of staff.
During the day, make frequent checks of people who are likely to drop food down their fronts or soil their clothes in any way.
NOTE Make sure that this group has plenty of changes of clothing in their wardrobe. Many find a food-stained garment a great indignity.
However and there may be a small minority of residents who refuse to be kept clean. Their rights should also be respected.
Arrange to go shopping with a resident who wants to buy new clothes.
Encourage residents to wash and iron their clothes where their eyesight and co-ordination are good. Check for repairs after ironing.
Aids for easier dressing
Use of these will help residents to dress and undress themselves: Velcro for fastenings;
You’ll find it extraordinarily difficult to find anything to worry about.
Rather than modify anything to do with the external events that trigger your worry you might decide to go for option 2 and identify the thoughts or beliefs that herald your worry and examine them for possible replacements. Typical thoughts for feelings of worry are:
Wouldn’t it be terrible if such and such happened?
I’m sure they have met with an accident.
I fear the worst.
It’s sure to crash.
I know I won’t be able to cope.
I’m sure I have got cancer/heart disease.
It’s only natural to worry.
I care and so I worry.
And, finally, here are some thought-starters on ways of replacing unrealistic thoughts and beliefs that provoke feelings of worry so that they become more realistic and less likely to hinder your behaviour: Worrying doesn’t change anything.
What action can I take right now ?
In 100 years time my worries will be of no consequence.
What is the worst possible thing that could happen?
What is the likelihood?
No news is good news!
Nothing can make me worry.
I choose to worry!
Why worry?
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The NHS has always shown strong centripetal tendencies: central funding and standardisation and formalisation of structures and procedures, a policy of equality of access and service nationwide. Undoubtedly and these tendencies will remain.
But they have been eroded in recent years, and it is likely that this erosion will continue although, as before, it will have varied impact according to issue and (geographical) place.
But, if self-governing hospital Trusts take the shape envisaged in Working for patients and the associated Working Paper 1 there should be considerable “freedoms” and legal status to make local arrangements.
This would cover budgets, contracts, pricing, income generation, asset acquisition and disposal, borrowing powers, build up of surpluses and reserve, management structures and, perhaps most importantly, freedom to employ and direct all their staff, including doctors and nurses, on their own locally determined pay and conditions (Department of Health, 1989b).
The impact of these local freedoms is likely to fragment the NHS organisation still further.
While managers will pursue broadly the same tasks and they will do so in an increasing variety of ways.
As the framework of an internal market is established, managers will tend to polarise into “buyers” and “sellers”with consequent changes of role and behaviour. New skills and understandings will be required.
In short, a Conservative Government in the 1990s would emphasise market mechanisms to allocate resources to need, would encourage competition in order to offer consumers more choice and quality.
The pace of change which accelerated in the 1980s would continue unabated in the 1990s .
Change in the 1990s must also be envisaged within the wider context of an integrated and more open European Market, which is likely to cause all manner of stresses and strains to British society and economy.
For the NHS and the main impact may well be on the labour force, as staff of all types have greater freedom to use their qualifications and experience wherever the rewards are perceived to be.
Faced with increased rates of change from the factors discussed above, managers in the NHS will need to feel competent, confident and adequately rewarded as they lead the NHS into the 1990s.
This adds to the importance of investing in the development of managers of the right calibre.
Management development therefore moves centre stage, and this is for two reasons.
First, politically driven deadlines impose task-oriented imperatives on managers.
For example, within eighteen months of the time of writing, managers must implement the complex provisions of two White Papers, as well as their local plans for service provision and development within tight financial disciplines.
The White Paper Working for patients brings with it a whole new world of purchase and supply, with business skills at a premium.
The White Paper Caring for people demands a degree of inter-sectorial collaboration rarely met before in community-based services. Managers will need education and training to achieve the targets set.
