Often times in every hospital, admitted patients tend to lack insight into their health status and in worst case scenario don’t even know their diagnosis. In developed countries this may not be obtainable or to some extend little though reports documented some health practitioners resigning from their job as a result of hospital’s policy of none disclosure of information to patient especially the psychiatric patients.
Here we look at the nurse role in educating patients during admission periods. Admission into the hospital wards may be a patient’s worst experience. Sometimes only the news of admission causes automatic depression hence some health care practitioners feels it’s the best to keep the patient diagnosis away from them.
Here in Africa, patients even ask to know about their health status and 95% of them get brushed off without ever getting the answers. One feels the patient’s bill of rights isn’t in play. Though it may be the level of patient’s education or exposure playing the significant difference.
Nurses being the anchor of every health care facility have the role to ensure the patient is carried along during admission periods by explaining every procedure performed to the patient and answering all necessary questions concerning or relating to care which may come from the patient care. Yes this may be very demanding especially where the procedure alone may be very demanding or where the nurse in question is not immediately with the answers to the patient’s question.
However a nurse can always refer a patient to another senior colleague or request patient’s permission to provide answers later.
The role of nurses round in every hospital wards maybe to educate the young nurses or to keep abreast with the patients care development (though rarely practiced by nurses) but part of this major nursing activity should be to educate the patient. It’s the nurse’s role to ensure the patient is aware of every detail of the care received, drugs, procedures, diagnosis, care plan, etc.
As this is an important aspect of patient’s rehabilitation, without education and insight into patient’s problems they tend to relapse by evading health practices which supports full recovery during and after care.
Nurse’s clinical roles with patients will ever continue to increase and the nursing profession in its role to improve our relevancy should encourage the clinical nurses to always draw up every patient care plan with health education periods well indicated and delivered to the patients without any compromise
Here we look at the nurse role in educating patients during admission periods. Admission into the hospital wards may be a patient’s worst experience. Sometimes only the news of admission causes automatic depression hence some health care practitioners feels it’s the best to keep the patient diagnosis away from them.
Here in Africa, patients even ask to know about their health status and 95% of them get brushed off without ever getting the answers. One feels the patient’s bill of rights isn’t in play. Though it may be the level of patient’s education or exposure playing the significant difference.
Nurses being the anchor of every health care facility have the role to ensure the patient is carried along during admission periods by explaining every procedure performed to the patient and answering all necessary questions concerning or relating to care which may come from the patient care. Yes this may be very demanding especially where the procedure alone may be very demanding or where the nurse in question is not immediately with the answers to the patient’s question.
However a nurse can always refer a patient to another senior colleague or request patient’s permission to provide answers later.
The role of nurses round in every hospital wards maybe to educate the young nurses or to keep abreast with the patients care development (though rarely practiced by nurses) but part of this major nursing activity should be to educate the patient. It’s the nurse’s role to ensure the patient is aware of every detail of the care received, drugs, procedures, diagnosis, care plan, etc.
As this is an important aspect of patient’s rehabilitation, without education and insight into patient’s problems they tend to relapse by evading health practices which supports full recovery during and after care.
Nurse’s clinical roles with patients will ever continue to increase and the nursing profession in its role to improve our relevancy should encourage the clinical nurses to always draw up every patient care plan with health education periods well indicated and delivered to the patients without any compromise
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