A Patient /Family Care Study on Enteritis

Abstract

Nursing for the past years was considered a vocation. Nursing care included bathing, wound dressing, feeding which were the physical needs of the patient. Towards the 19th century it became a profession when Florence Nightingale provided and set a pattern which became the basis of the nursing education and profession today. Now in the state of comprehensive nursing, a systematic process of data collection, problem diagnosis, analysis, development of care plan and evaluation is practiced. This helps to give individualized care as to patients and their families as a whole. Nursing of late provides a holistic care taking into consideration the physical, psychological, spiritual, social, economic and intellectual needs of the patient. It also works on the three aspects of life: the body, soul, and the spirit. Most diseases reported lately does not only result from poor sanitation and personal hygiene but as a result of bad eating habits and harmful lifestyle. As such, much education is shifted towards ensuring healthful practices like proper eating habits, regular exercise and avoidance of harmful lifestyles like smoking, alcoholism. To achieve this, a comprehensive, individualized and holistic care must be highly utilized. Families and the communities should not be left out in giving health care.Patient/family care study is a detailed account of nursing care rendered to the patient. This forms part of the final assessment of the student nurse at the end of the three-year training programme before the award of license to practice as a registered general nurse by the Nursing and Midwifery Council of Ghana.