A Patient/ Family Care Study on Bronchoneumonia

Abstract

Nursing now as a profession has evolved through time to be the nursing known today. In theprehistoric era, nursing was “untaught” and instinctive which was performed out of compassionand desire to help others. It was based on experience and observation and was a woman’s function to naturally nurture the child, the sick and aged. Before the foundation of modern nursing, nuns and the army were often those who provided nursing like services. Over the centuries, nursing has move from this phase of religious leaders’ responsibility to a more scientific and patient center approach where patient now have a full knowledge of the care render to him or her and how the care is rendered. The Crimean war was a significant development in the nursing history where an English nurse, Florence Nightingale laid the foundation of professional nursing. In the post Crimean war period, nursing education had undergone a process of diversification towards advanced and specialization credentials, and many traditional regulations and provider’s roles are changing. Today nurses develop a planned care, working collaboratively with physicians, therapists, the patient, the patient’s family and other health team members that focus on treating illness to improve quality of life. Nursing process is the comprehensive systematic approach use in identifying patient’s problem and making clinical judgments about such problem and how to implement available care to the patient. The nursing process is a deliberate problem-solving approach for meeting a person’s health care and nursing needs. It consists of a sequence of steps in the following order: assessment, diagnosis, objective/outcome criteria, planning, implementation, and evaluation.The overall goal for the Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN) project is to meet the challenge of preparing future nurses who will have the Knowledge, Skills and Attitudes (KSAs) necessary to continuously improve the quality and safety of the healthcare systems within which they work. It comprises of six areas of competencies, including Patient Centered Care,Teamwork and Collaboration, Evidence-Based Practice, Quality Improvement, Safety and Informatics. The patient care study is a report of the nursing care rendered to a patient and his or her family. It involves the interaction between the patient (including his or her family and community) and the health team. The patient/family care study forms part of the assessment of every final year student. It is a requirement for every candidate in order to partially fulfill the awardment of a license to practice as Registered General Nurse by the Nursing and Midwifery Council of Ghana. The patient/family care study is a comprehensive account of the comprehensive nursing care rendered to the patient and family from the day of admission through the day of discharge, review and follow up visits. Initials of patient and his parents were used instead of patient and family’s real names throughout the study to maintain anonymity and confidentiality of their vital and legal information. The comprehensive care rendered was made possible by the employment of skills and knowledge in such disciplines as psychology, public health nursing, medical nursing, surgical nursing, pharmacology and nutrition and dietetics to meet the patient/family’s needs and the community at large