A Patient/Family Care Study on Peptic Ulcer Disease

Abstract

Nursing in the past four decades have brought emphasis on nursing research and the use of scientific data at the bedside. Nursing care has broadened from care of the sick to care of the people both in sickness and health and also extend to the patient’s family and community at large in all aspects regardless of the background. The patient and family care study are carried out by every final year student nurse as a partial fulfilment towards the award of license to practice as a Registered General Nursing. The patient and family care study entails rendering holistic and therapeutic nursing care to a patient and the family. It involves the interaction between the patient including his/her family and health team within a specified time frame until patient is discharged, as well as home visits to ensure care continuity until the care is finally terminated. The purpose of the study is to help the student nurse put to practice the theoretical knowledge acquired during training. The study also gives the student nurse a detailed understanding of the condition and the opportunity to render holistic care to the patient and the family based on the nursing process. To ensure confidentiality, initials of patient were used in the study.