A Patient/Family Care Study on Gastritis

Abstract

Under the influence of Florence Nightingale, the nursing profession began to change rapidly. Through the use of nursing process, nursing has been modified to a holistic care by means of new techniques used in the profession. Nursing has changed from only caring for the sick to include taking of medical history and conducting head-to-toe examination through the use of nursing process which was initially the duty of the medical doctor. Patient/family care study is a report written about the care rendered to patient/family with the help of nursing process within a specific period of time. It explores nursing care rendered from the time of encounter on the ward till discharge through home visit till care is terminated. It gives an in-depth knowledge to the student nurse and on the nursing process which serves to provide a systemic methodology of nursing practice. The Patient/Family Care Study involves a record nursing care, documenting the problems of a client and how they are dealt with by the nurse in the course of finding solution to the problems. It provides a systemic way of collecting data, analyzing information and reporting the results of nursing care. The study again, is an academic exercise that forms part of the requirement for an award of professional license by the Nursing and Midwifery Council of Ghana to practice as a Registered General Nurse. Owing to the comprehensive care plan given, the student nurse becomes equipped with information on the patient’s condition and becomes familiar with the use of the nursing process as a basis for practice thereby encouraging evidence-based nursing care. It involves initials to ensure confidentiality.