A Patient / Family Care Study on Diabetes Melitus

Abstract

Nursing became professionalized after the Civil War. The Nightingale system of nurse training was adopted and offered at hospitals. Modern nursing is a profession that requires knowledge, skills and attitude. The ability to render comprehensive nursing care rests on the nurses’ ability to assess the client’s condition, analysis, plan, implement evaluate the effects of management on client health status using the nursing process. It is therefore required by the Nursing and Midwifery Council of Ghana that every final year student nurse should write a patient/ family care study, in which the nursing process approach is applied. The Patient/ family care study is a detailed account of nursing care rendered to the Patient and family to meet their needs. The study is designed to give a comprehensive nursing care to both patient and family from the time of admission till when patient is finally discharged to go home, as well as follow-ups or home visits for continuity of care. The study also involves the nursing process which involves assessment of patient/ family, planning of care to be rendered, implementing the plan and evaluating care rendered to patient/ family. The study is carried out to enable the student nurse put into practice the knowledge and skills acquired from the three year training period in school to ascertain how best the theoretical knowledge would be used to nurse patients who will come under his or her care in the near future. The study also forms part of the requirements of the Nursing and Midwifery Council of Ghana for the award of licence in General Nursing. In this study, initials of patient are used for confidentiality.