1.Study on home care needs and care resource integration expectations of elderly patients after hip fracture surgery: a mixed-method study
Yan KUANG ; Lei CHENG ; Yuanfang KUANG ; Zhenlan XIA
Chinese Journal of Practical Nursing 2023;39(25):1972-1978
Objective:To investigate the home care needs and home resource integration expectations of elderly patients after hip fracture surgery so as to provide health care guidance after discharge.Methods:A mixed study method of consistent parallel design was used to conduct semi-structured interviews in 15 elderly patients after hip fracture surgery. Meanwhile, convenient sampling method was used to select elderly patients after hip fracture surgery to conduct health survey with interRAI-HC(International Resident Assessment Instrument Home Care), and comprehensive data results were analyzed.Results:Through the analysis and induction of the interview data, two main themes were extracted: the diversification of home care needs and the lack of integration of home service resources. There were 25 health problems in the elderly after hip fracture surgery. Health problems mainly focus on ADL limitation, insufficient social activity, limited social interaction, clinical health problems (fall risk, malnutrition, pain, cardiovascular and respiratory problems, weakness, fatigue), etc.Conclusions:For elderly patients after hip fracture surgery, it is necessary to strengthen the rehabilitation guidance at discharge, integrate home care resources to provide diversified nursing services in the transitional stage, promote the formation and continuity of patients' rehabilitation behavior, and improve the clinical outcome of patients.
2.Ethical considerations of enterostomal therapists in dealing with the problems of patients with chronic wounds:taking a chronic wound patient with postpartum fat liquefaction combined with thread-knot reaction as an example
Zhenlan XIA ; Junrong LIU ; Zexuan LIU ; Liping CHEN
Chinese Medical Ethics 2024;37(2):194-198
Specialist nurses play an increasingly important role in clinical,and at the same time,they(especially enterostomal therapists/wound stoma specialist nurses)are often troubled by ethical problems when facing patients independently.Based on the"structured analysis form of clinical nursing ethics"constructed in the early stage,this paper used a case study method,took a chronic wound patient with postpartum fat liquefaction combined with thread-knot reaction as an example,conducted an in-depth analysis and reflection on the ethical problems of enterostomal therapists choosing treatment plans in clinical work,as well as proposed clinical recommendations.Base on this,this paper suggests that specialist nurses should fully consider the wishes and background characteristics of patients when nursing and treating patients,and use the four-box model of ethical analysis to analyze and solve ethical conflicts.
3.Ethical Analysis on a Patient with a Chronic Wound Nonunion Refused to be Hospitalized
Zhenlan XIA ; Liping CHEN ; Linling YANG ; Qixia LIAO ; Junrong LIU
Chinese Medical Ethics 2022;35(9):1012-1016
This paper introduced a case of ethical conflict between the principle of benefit and the principle of respect in the formulating treatment and nursing plan for patient with chronic wound nonunion by specialist nurses, and used the "structured analysis form of clinical nursing ethics" designed by the Third Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University to conduct ethical analysis and ethical decision-making, and solve the clinical nursing ethical problems of complex nursing cases. The practice of the case showed that under the situation of ethical conflict in making nursing treatment plan for patient, the application of structured ethical analysis of clinical nursing is helpful to improve nurses’ ethical decision-making ability and strengthen their ethical thinking. It is suggested to strengthen nurses’ ethical thinking in clinical nursing, continuously improve nurses’ ethical decision-making ability, and cultivate core nursing technology integrating science and humanities, thus to enhance nursing value.