Personal Reflection: My Experience To Helping A Peri-Care

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1. In this class, I learned many personal care skills such as peri-care, assisting an individual to eat, dressing, and transferring them using lifts and slings. I faced a few problems while providing peri-care to an individual. In providing peri-care, a person has to clean up the genital area and also to change a diaper of a client. I found it very awkward at first because it was my first experience in my life to provide someone with a peri-care. I faced difficulties while changing the diaper of the client; I was confused which side of the diaper should be up and which should be downward. I also have to take care of not to use the same wipe again and again, also to change the gloves while providing peri-care in order prevent the risk of infection. …show more content…

In most of the steps, while providing the personal care I faced some problems, but there were some steps in the skills that I performed well. I was able to move the individual to the left and right side safely, in order to change the diaper and provide him a peri-care. I was also taking care of to provide a privacy and keep confidentiality at all time during I was providing the peri-care.
There were some steps where I need to work on for next time. For example, while providing peri-care, I need more practice while changing the diaper of the client because I was facing problems during doing this step during providing the peri-care. I think I also need to work on my proper body mechanics for my own good because when I was providing the personal care to the client.
3. A person providing assistance and support to the people with disabilities should possess many positive feelings and qualities, in order to provide the best service to the clients. One of my positive feeling or quality is that I am very calm and patience. While I was providing the personal care to the clients at my practicum, I was very calm and this feeling of mine enhanced my ability to perform the skills better. For example, if I am calm and have patience then I will concentrate better on providing the assistance to the clients regardless of any other disturbance. Hence, I will complete my work without any

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