A Patient and Family Care Study on Uncomplicated Gastritis

Abstract

Health care is undergoing drastic changes globally, posing challenges to all categories of health health care. In line with these challenges, Nursing has to be considered alongside the work of other health care professionals. Undoubtedly however, a range of nursing services is required to respond adequately to the health needs of all patients. Rather than treating the patient as a disease entity, the nursing process enable the nurse to give a holistic care to patient with reference to their physical, psychological, physiological, social and spiritual needs of the patient. Today’s Nurse Trainee should be equipped with requisite knowledge, skills and attitude for the new challenges of their role in society. The patient/family centered care study method is an opportunity for the Nurse Trainee to translate his theories of Nursing, especially the Nursing process concept into reality, in the clinical setting. The patient/family care study is a requirement by the Nursing and Midwifery Council of Ghana for every final year nursing student to undertake in. It is a script prepared by a final year student nurse on a patient. The study is to render a scientific based holistic care on the patient till his full recovery using the nursing process. The care study offers the best chance for a final year nursing student to show his/her competency in rendering care to a patient till his full recovery. It also gives the student nurse the chance to interact and co-ordinate with other members of the health team and for the promotion of optimal health to individuals and communities at large. It also helps to raise the standard of nursing education as it ensures a comprehensive and individualized care given to patient and community as a whole. I conducted this patient and family care study because as a final year student, it is a requirement by the nursing and midwifery council of Ghana to carry out such a study in partial fulfilment for the award leniency to parties as a registered general nurse in Ghana. For confidentiality to prevail, initials of the patient/family are used instead of their identity.