A Patient/Family Care Study on Scrotal Hernia

Abstract

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 and evaluate the effects of management on client health status. Patient/family care study is a report of nursing care rendered to patient and her family. It involves interaction between patient/family, his community and members of the health team. This study is done in partial fulfillment of the award of professional certificate/diploma by Nursing and Midwifery Council of Ghana after a three-year basic nursing training. This study enables the nurse to use scientific advances to provide quality personalized human care base on the holistic care and patient centered approach of nursing care using the nursing process. The student nurse acquires advance knowledge and experience, he/she internalize this thinking process and develops an initiative grasp of patient’s situation. This approach forms the basis for learning nursing practice and for making decisions about nursing care. Nursing process is a deliberate and systematic way of identifying and solving client problems meeting the nursing needs of the client, that is, the holistic care of the patient using the nursing process. Patient/family care study forms part of the assessment of every final year nursing student. It is therefore a must for every candidate in order to partially fulfill the award of license to practice as a Professional Registered General Nurse. The patient/ family care study is a comprehensive account of the nursing care rendered to the patient and family from the day of admission through to the day of discharge, review and follow-up visits. Confidentiality is achieved by the use of patient/family initials instead of their full names. The comprehensive care rendered was made possible through the knowledge and skills in disciplines like Psychology, Public HealthNursing, Medical and Surgical Nursing, Pharmacology and Nutrition and Dietetics to meet the patient/family needs and the community at large.