Situational awareness in support and care
Hey all so I put this on my stub stack but it's to important to forget about given that it's something that we really do need education and training on in support and a refresher around how important it is to have boundaries and situational awareness to prevent harm in both sides as harm prevention is so much better that harm minimization and how do you do that is by having situational awareness and boundaries and its not hard to do respectfully when you have confidence in yourself and what you're doing but this is where people seem to go wrong around support and the role of a support worker in what they are able to do and there is so much of a grey area as well that one of the most dangerous phrases in support is to say, That's not my job or I will leave that for the others. This just leads to resentment in the care team and the person not getting the care the need, and that is why it's the most dangerous phrase in support. I have posted over on Tic toc about su