A Client/Family Centered Nursing Care Study on Bronchopneumonia

Abstract

The patient and family care study are a detailed written account or report of the comprehensive individualized nursing care rendered to a particular patient and family within a specific period of time. This study is carried out to enable the student nurse put into practice the knowledge and skills acquired from the three (3) year training period in school to ascertain how best the theoretical knowledge could be used to nurse patients who will come under his or her care. Nursing care rendered to the patient to meet his or her physical, psychological, social and spiritual needs. It involves the interaction between the patient, family, thecommunity in which he or she stays and the health team. The importance of the care study is to help the student nurse exhibit the skills and knowledge acquired from his or her training from the classroom into practice.It involves the holistic and comprehensive nursing care to the patient and family within the time of admission to the time of discharge or to a peaceful death and continues with follow-up care after discharge. It is in this context that the nursing process, which includes assessment, analysis, diagnosis, planning, implementation and evaluation are employed.The care study also helps the student nurse to acquire more knowledge on the diagnosis, causes, clinical features, complications and management of the specific disease condition studied by the student. The care study therefore helps the student nurse to have the opportunity to initiate and implement patient care. The patient and family care study is an academic exercise carried by the final year student as part of the requirement for the award of a professional license to practice by the Nurses’ and Midwives’ Council of Ghana. During the study, patient and family’s initials were used instead of their full names for anonymity and confidentiality