The proper definition is to look at the whole person and deal with the effects of the disease to the whole person. A broken ankle will incapacitate a person by various degrees depending on the severity and at what time you look. Alternatives would need to be worked out for bathing, transport to work, mobility with crutches, parking changes if required, work site modifications so that a person can get into their desk and have their foot up. There may well be some psychological problems related to having some lack of mobility and lack of being able to take care of things like laundry and so forth. This is a bit vague, but I hope you get the idea. The idea is that you are dealing with a person not a broken ankle.
I have to do an essay on holistic care nursing and have to define all patients needs such as psychological and emotional. Does anybody have any examples of these as they seem very similar to me
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focused on the student nurses
Its still being taught, but its just not in practice. When I was in school, about 10 years ago for Nursing, it was always brought up as a “consideration”, but not as a practical application. Its pretty evident in the care that the “newer nurses” give.
It means you have to attend to their physical need and safety needs before you can help them feel better emotionally.
The practice of nursing has been divided to so many branches or subfields. With the demand of nursing in the medical field, nurses are forced to worry first of what is asked of them in the field then follows the holistic treatment and approach. in as much as they want to be holistic their field needs more specific tasks to do first such that they need to do it the simplified way just to get the work done.
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