HUMAN TOUCH IN HEALTH CARE

SPECIALISTS
1. Remedial massagist
2. Age Care Worker
3. Paediatrician
4. Nurses & Doctors
5. Physiotherapist
6. Does massage assist human recovery
TOUCH IN AGE CARE
1. Adelaide Age Care Assessment Team
  1. Pressure area care
  2. Does massage and touch assist human recovery
  3. Not enough nurses
    1. Nurses pick up things a machine will not
2. Need more nurturing and affection.
  1. Palliative Care
    1. Monkey Documentary
  2. Points that could effect the care involving human touch
LACK OF EMEPLOYEES
1. Not enough nurses
  1. Lack of time
  2. No time for nurture, care and conversation.
  3. The Department Health System Performance
Technology
1. Robots dispensing patient medication
  1. No nurse interaction
  2. No touch
2. Machines
  1. Taking Tempretures with thermometers
    1. No touch
    2. Machine cannot detect other details
      1. Color of skin
      2. Texture of skin (Clammy, cold, hot)
    3. Only measures temperature
  2. Use of machines allows nurses to rush through jobs with minimal physical interaction and conversation
  3. Machines are unreliable at diagnosing other needs.
3. Increases Life Expectancy
  1. Is human touch still necessary/beneficial with the use of machines
    1. Nurses cannot fully examine a patient and may miss vital details without making contact with them
      1. May miss possible causes
    2. No conversation could also mean details are left. (e.g. Has a sore throat, consumed a large amount of spirits the night before) Knowing the extra details would make it easier for the specialist to diagnose and treat the patient.
    3. With machines working quickly and efficiently, there is no longer a great need for nurses to make decent conversation with patients.
      1. A simple conversation could give the cure to the problem, simply asking how do you feel could provide the nurse with possible symptoms of an illness.
4. Advantage: Technology has proven to work and be quite precise.
HUMAN TOUCH ON NEW BORNS
1. Article of Mothers touch saving baby's life
2. Article on orphanage children provided nurturing living longer than those without.
3. Quality of care, Touch and affection.
POLICY MAKERS
1. Implements Health Care practices
2. Minister of Health
3. Government Department of SA Health
  1. Protects and improves public health by providing leadership in health reform, policy development and planning.
4. Health system performance
  1. Staffing numbers
Contacts
1. Professor of Health Sciences UniSA
2. ABC Radio Talk Show Host Ian Hentschke
3. Andrew Tideman, Paediatrition
4. Gail Bingham New Zealand Lawyer
5. Dr Anke Doley, GP
6. Sherry Larson, Residential Service Manager - Southern Cross Age Care Facility (Goolwa)
7. Annie Mackie, DON Repatriation Hospital
8. Physio Marie Beckworth
9. The Hon. Jack Snelling, Minister of Health in SA
BANNING TOUCH & 'THE BACKRUB'
1. Research on Pressure Area Care
  1. Massage has been proven to reduce pressure areas on patients and be of great help to patients.
  2. Blood circulation
    1. Has been proven to improve after massage
2. Human's need Human touch
  1. Heirachy of needs
EXPERIMENTS
1. Harry Harlow working with Primates - Faliure to thrive sick and depressed, psychologically traumatised.
2. John Bowlby Psychoanalyst
3. Renee Splitz who observed orphans in WW11

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