✝Camillus MedHaven⛑
by: Rachelle Maglonzo
by: Rachelle Maglonzo
🌳Nature:
Camillus MedHaven is a nursing home or facility
located in the Philippines that caters the needs of the elderly, as well as
people with disabilities, particularly among children. The facility was
formerly named St. Camillus Home of Charity when it was founded in the year
1992. However, on February 26, 2006, it was transfigured into a place that
accommodates senior citizens with paid services.
🏡Setting:
Camillus MedHaven is a nursing home or facility
based in the Philippines. One of its branches is located in 29 Apitong Street,
Marikina City, thus, the facility is accessible to other surrounding cities and
communities like Cainta, Antipolo, Taytay, Angono, and Montalban. The facility
itself is environment-friendly, peaceful, and serene that makes it homely and
comfortable for the elderly and the children with disabilities to stay
independently. In addition to this, Camillus MedHaven provides a place that is
filled with trustworthy assistance from their workers inside the facility, as
well as a great choice of setting to lodge in tranquility.
Camillus Medhaven provides different methods or
procedures while accommodating the important necessities of their clients.
According to their website, Camillus MedHaven offers a “resident-oriented, long-term full-time care; rehabilitative therapies;
and adult daycare services to seniors who need post-hospital or post-operative
medical attention, whose families are not equipped to give the attention they
require”. In accordance to this, Camillus MedHaven imparts or delivers
programs that suffice and fulfills the needs of its clients through therapy
sessions, medical consultations, rehabilitation programs and forums,
counseling, professional healthcare, and to name a few. With the help of their
loyal and devoted employees inside the nursing home such as private caregivers,
ward attendants, nurses, and social workers, the facility can guarantee
reliable and well founded services towards its clients.
🌟Roles
In
Camillus MedHaven, employees who are working in the said facility such as
social workers have various roles to hold and apply for the good development
and growth of their clients and for the overall reputation of the nursing home
as well. First is being an enabler.
The role of an enabler is to help people to acquire solutions and answers to
their problems. This role is more focused on individuals and families. Second
is being a facilitator which is a
role that provides assistance for professional and organizational development.
This role is mainly focused on groups or organizations. Third is the role of a planner that coordinates or manages
outreach programs for the education and literacy of the community within their
surroundings. This role is more focused in the community itself. Lastly, the
role of being a colleague and monitor.
The goal of this role is to improve socialization and the professional adoption
of culture-based behavioral patterns of individuals. It focuses on the social
work profession or to individuals who are practicing the methods of social
work.
💻Competencies
The employees or workers who are serving inside
the Camillus MedHaven Nursing Home showcased different competencies that
contributes to the stable regulation and management of the facility. Some of
these competencies include the following:
ü Execute empowering
processes- Performing or conducting empowerment to individuals and families for
their growth and development.
ü Perform crisis
intervention- Offering short term methods that help individuals who have
experienced or is currently suffering rom difficulties or risks.
ü Good computer literacy- Possessing
computer or technological skills to improve professional background as well as
to connect to other funding networks.
ü Use practical methods-
Maximizing the use of pragmatic techniques as one of the expertise of being a
social worker.
ü Link client systems with
needed resources- Establishing connections within the resources needed by the
clients.
ü Communicate effectively-
Ability to communicate effectively to be aware of the community’s needs and to
be the voice for the people who can not voice out their requests to the
authorities.
ü Think critically-
Thinking critically is essential for being an efficient planner to successfully
conduct outreach programs without any complications. If any problems may have
the chance to occur, a social worker must critically think of solutions fast
that can improve the situation right after.
ü Build and sustain
relationships- Establish relationships and handle them without violating the
code of ethics against building human relationships.
ü Do social planning- Build
and contribute plans or ideas for the community to utilize in times of
casualties.
ü Analyze policies-
Analyzing policies when conducting research or building plans for the community
to avoid misinterpretations.
ü Strong cultural and
intercultural competence- Skill or capability to initiate strong expertise
within cultural and intercultural contexts.
ü Conduct research- Knowledgeable
on making or conducting research to uphold professionalism and sophistication
in the field of social work.
⚙Concrete
Examples
The roles and competencies of a competent,
skillful, and productive social worker were observed in the staff of Camillus
MedHaven. An example of this is how the caregivers and social workers in
Camillus MedHaven aids the needs of the elderly by helping them through giving
them guidance, advices, talking about their problems and provide solutions to
it to support their needs. Some of the elderly people who are residing in the
facility have dilemmas with their families and finds the facility as an answer
to their problems but at the same time, providing them empowerment. Another one
is how the workers and the staffs in the facility develop their skills and
professionalism to produce connection to other funding networks to sponsor and
support the funding and needs of the facility for the benefit of Camillus MedHaven
as a group and as an organization. Furthermore, experiences such as the social
workers, nurses, caregivers, and the staffs in Camillus MedHaven who agreed to
pursue the outreach program coordinated by the Grade 12- St. Ehrentrudis HUMSS
students helped in planning and organizing the event were also exhibited.
Unfortunately, during this event, a talk that was supposed to be delivered by a
social worker was cancelled so the staff of Camillus MedHaven substituted the
talk to a brief introduction about the facility or nursing home. In return,
everyone participated and enjoyed the outreach program and learned a lot of
things from the elders inside the facility. On the other hand, everyone who are
residing in Camillus MedHaven are treated equally despite their diverse
cultures and social class variations. Some can afford services in Camillus
Medhaven and some do not, however, they are all treated equally and fairly.
Inside the facility, there are also policies and regulations to follow for the
overall professionalism and solidarity of the facility, and other workers and
staffs that serves in the nursing home are conducting observations and
researches on how to improve the facility in order to aid or cater the needs of
the seniors or the elderly as well as the abilities of the relationship between
workers or colleagues.
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Sources:
Ø http://camillusmedhaven.webs.com/
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