Leadership Practice: Outline of an Experience

In reality, there are always things that need to be improved. This is easy to figure out by looking at leadership events and all the leadership tasks in a certain group of patients or practice settings. The goal of the paper is to describe a problem area for Parkinson’s patients and offer ways to deal with it based on what works best.

In this essay, I’ll talk about the best ways to deal with sleep for people with Parkinson’s and the extra tools they’ll need to improve their quality of life. To reach these goals, the following things will be done;

Review the literature: 250 to 350 words is about 1 to 1.5 pages(s)
Find out what the best suggestions are: about 250 words or 1 page
200–250 words is about 1 page for stakeholders.
Outline the goals and resources: 200 to 250 words is about one page
Expected results: between 200 and 250 words, which is about one page
Making people aware of the need for change: 200–250 words = about 1 page
About 150 words is about half a page

Parkinson’s illness

Parkinson’s disease is a brain problem with a number of different signs. The disease causes pain and makes it hard to keep your balance, walk, or coordinate your movements. Most of these signs come on slowly and get worse over time. It also causes emotional changes, changes in behavior, and changes in the way you sleep. This makes a huge difference in how well the people live. (Bollu & Sahota, 2017). So, it’s important to come up with ways to improve the quality of life for people with Parkinson’s.

I have been helping this group of people for a long time. But based on what I’ve learned and seen during my time in office, I’ve noticed that there’s one area that needs to be fixed. Most health care workers always focus on the mental and most physical signs of their patients. However, sleep problems that Parkinson’s patients always have have gotten less attention. Since this has a huge effect on the quality of life of these people, it is important to come up with approaches based on best practices that will help them sleep better.

In the places where I work, most patients are always looked over, given a physical check, and given their medications. Very few health care workers will look at a client’s sleep habits and figure out the best way to improve their sleep hygiene. When people with Parkinson’s don’t get enough sleep, signs like depression and other changes in how they feel get worse. (Loddo et al., 2017).

The literature study showed a way to improve the way Parkinson patients sleep that can be looked into. I think that this group can have less trouble sleeping if their sleep patterns are looked at, they are taught about health, and they are given advice on good sleep hygiene. Changing the doses of their medications could also help. The Parkinson’s Disease Sleep Scale (PDSS) can be used by all health care professionals to measure how people sleep. Also, they can suggest things like timed light treatment and the right way to deal with physical symptoms like nocturia, which are big reasons why patients have trouble sleeping. Some drugs that affect sleep can also be skipped or switched out for others. (Videnovic et al., 2017). By taking care of the whole person, these new ways of doing things aim to improve the quality of life for all people.

By using the above strategies, every patient who comes into the hospital will be checked out. Loddo et al. give suggestions for how to improve non-motor symptoms, such as regular physical exercise during the day, getting off of drugs that affect sleep, reducing the amount of dopaminergic load, and teaching patients how to follow and use sleep hygiene rules. (2017).

References

Bollu, P. C., & Sahota, P. (2017). Sleep and Parkinson Disease. Missouri medicine, 114(5), 381–386.

Loddo, G., Calandra-Buonaura, G., Sambati, L., Giannini, G., Cecere, A., Cortelli, P., & Provini, F. (2017). The Treatment of Sleep Disorders in Parkinson’s Disease: From Research to Clinical Practice. Frontiers in neurology, 8, 42. https://doi.org/10.3389/fneur.2017.00042

Videnovic, A., Klerman, E. B., Wang, W., Marconi, A., Kuhta, T., & Zee, P. C. (2017). Timed Light Therapy for Sleep and Daytime Sleepiness Associated With Parkinson Disease: A Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA neurology, 74(4), 411–418. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamaneurol.2016.5192

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