Ineffective Caregivers Training Essay

Ineffective caregivers training reduces the quality of palliative care and services as it can lead to caregivers’ inability to provide high standard of care for their loved ones. Ineffective caregivers training can cause the caregivers to have ‘lack of information and skills which result in them not been able to deliver proper care for the patient.’ (Hafsteinsdóttir, Vergunst, Lindeman, & Schuurmans, 2010) For example, a diabetic patient have diabetic foot ulcer that have been developed due to poor glycemic control. However, the caregivers are not aware that the diabetic foot ulcer is a result of poor glycemic control which lead to the diabetic foot ulcer complication and need to be amputated. This is supported by ‘A recent study confirmed that patients had many negative outcomes when untrained caregivers managed their health problems. (Reinhard et al, 2008). Therefore, ineffective caregivers training can lead to caregivers providing low standard of care for the patient due to knowledge deficit. …show more content…
There are positive impacts of caregivers training such as effective communication and perform ADLs for the patient. On the other hand, there are also negative impacts of ineffective caregivers training such as caregiver stress and inability to provide high standard of care. However, all these negative impacts can be easily overcome by taking a step forward to find alternative ways such as seeking help from healthcare professionals. Through the caregivers training, it will allow caregivers to have a better knowledge of how to better care for a patient especially during their end-of-life care which require more empathy from everyone. It also allow the caregivers to understand that the patient are experiencing painful period which they will be unreasonable at times so caregiver should not take it to