Monitoring Strategies / Reduction of Risk to a Person and Others – Including Self

Monitoring Strategies / Reduction of Risk to a Person and Others – Including Self

Scenario One 

You are supporting a family who is in distress. The parents are under a great deal of stress. Father has just become unemployed, mother has not found a supportive workplace for the past two years and has just resigned from her job. They have three children aged between 18 months and 8 years of age. The 18 month old has severe respiratory issues and is terminal. Both parents take turns in suctioning the 18 month old over an 18 hour timeframe on a daily basis. Both parents are lucky to have 4 – 5 hours’ sleep a day. The other children are driven to and from school daily and play sports on the weekends.

Scenario Two

You support a 5 year old child in a conventional primary school who has multiple sclerosis.  She is wheelchair bound and requires full personal hygiene care daily. She is incontinent and requires full assistance with nutrition intake and transport to and from school. Both parents are in respite in Regional Victoria recovering from a mild mental illness.

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List safety issues that require consideration.