Learning Theories: Analyzing Scheme of Work on Induction of Healthcare Assistants

Learning Theories: Analyzing my Scheme of Work
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Analyzing my Scheme of Work
Introduction
Healthcare Assistants are among the professionals in care settings becoming increasingly important. Therefore, I chose to explore the induction of new healthcare assistants into the elderly medical unit. A close examination at the schemes of work, I highlighted that trainees are expected to understand the value of care extended to the elderly before being considered professionals ready to execute their duties (Bach, Kessler & Heron, 2012). The schemes of work are important because they offer insights into the aspects the learner needs to grasp and understand for them to be considered ready to take care of the elderly. Therefore, the schemes of work first commence with the purpose of the training.
Bloom’s Cognitive Taxonomy learning theory
In applying Bloom’s Cognitive Taxonomy, the tutorial program provided as per the schemes of work focuses on the role of healthcare educators in demonstrating what the new healthcare assistants are supposed to learn. The questions I ask are redirected to understanding the lower skills that the new HCAs possess. As I advance, I apply Bloom’s theory by examining the higher skills questions to help determine what should be taught to the HCAs. The knowledge and skills healthcare assistants need to apply in taking care of the elderly are ingrained in the needs of the patients (Joy, & Wade, 2003). Notably, the knowledge they learners is not limited to the older or dying person, but also it extends to the families and people close to them (Coffey & Whitehead, 2015). Overall, this experience of running health education programs for the schemes of work emphasizes the various learning theories that the educators should apply in increasing the understanding of the healthcare assistants designated to work in the geriatrics unit in healthcare facilities.
Primarily, the schemes of work commence with exploring the knowledge that the healthcare facilities need to acquire to become efficient in their service delivery to elderly patients. Therefore, in developing my schemes of work, I had the following goals:
* To outline the duties of the healthcare assistant in caring for the elderly daily
* To examine the needs of the elderly alongside their families using Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs (Joy & Wade, 2003)
* To explore the cultural aspects that influence the level of care for the elderly while providing the best communication strategies to help the learners understand the roles they play caring for the elderly (Craftman, Grundberg & Westerbotn, 2018).
The systematic nature of the schemes of work helps to acknowledge the role of healthcare assistants. First, the educators need to make learners understand that they will have to learn how to assist the elderly with their daily living, privacy, choice-making, and activities that sustain their dignity. The activities cover the emotional, physical, social, and spiritual spheres of the elderly patients (Spilsbury & Meyer, 2005). In the schemes of work, the most common examples associated with these spheres include hel...