FrAnCh in Southampton

Workshadowing @ RRT and a Socialworker

When we arrived at the Southampton City Council the nurses started to prepare their handover. Sara, a nurse, told the participants about the patients and their illnesses. After they finished the handover they sapareted us and Christina and Anna went with two nurses, while I was waiting for Dave the social worker of the RRT. The day before we had prepared some new questions we forgot to ask the people of the Contact Centre, so I had the chance to ask them.

On Tuesday, Beth, a social worker and Care Manager explained us a case of a man who has a rat-problem and asked us if one of us wanted to come with her the next day to visit that man, but we didn't know if that was possible. When I met her again the next day she wanted to know who is coming with her and than she spoke to Kate from the RRT if I could go with her at 10 o'clock so they just had to sort that out with Dave. In the meantime I asked Kate some questions about the RRT.
Dave arrived at 09:40. Beth spoke to him and he said that it was ok for him if I would go with her. Beth and I left a bit earlier to the man.
We went to the house and the man is a nice old man. He felt so embarresed for the situation and was so happy for the help Beth offered him. All over the floor there were newspapers and plastic bags because he had rat poison on the floor. Beth told me that she wants to get the man out of the house for a few days to clean it and to get the rats out of it. Then he would be able to come back, but at the moment the situation he is living is live threatening for him. After he had showed us around Beth promised to organise everything for him and we left to go back to the office.
This visit was very interessting but also very sad for me.

posted by Franziska D. @ 8:20 am