Take it Easy Nurse! Here is How You Can Solve the Patient Care Problems – Part I

We know, as a nurse you must be having some of the greatest advices for your patients. There are, however, some problems that patients face and yet are left unnoticed. This results in lack of patient care and thereby irritable patients.

Not only nurses find satisfaction in taking care of their patients, above all, it's also a nurse's responsibility to make patients feel comfortable in the hospital premises or wherever the nurses intend to provide health care. Is it difficult? - Not at all. Is it worth it? - Sure it is.

'Who is Who' Problem of the Patients

Unidentifiable scrubs or color of the uniforms of the health care professionals and the other staff confuses the patients. Patients get to meet many of the members of the hospital staff. The nursing staff, the doctor, the cleaning staff and the list may go on and on.

The solution: Do patients know them? - No. In fact, patients suffer from an identity crisis. Unfamiliarity brings chaos. Name tags along with the designation and colored scrubs for different staffs, however, lead to familiarity. In addition, you can try to introduce yourself, and even the other staff who enters, so that the patient knows whom he/she is meeting. This may also remind the other staff about the need of introduction.

Understandably Lost and Confused Patients

Patients may often feel left out of the hospital's staff conversations. Mostly, they are out of the loop of the various procedures, processes, and information about their health in general and thus left confused. Isn't it apparent that not knowing what's going around you will leave you perplexed? Somehow, even patients feel frightened when they are unaware of the plans concerning them.

How to solve this problem? Who does not know how nurses are notoriously multitasking human beings! You can certainly use this trait while treating your patients. Enter the room with full information about the patient's health condition and make them know. Also, if the patient is to be taken for a test, make sure you're able to explain him/her how the process goes.

For more tips related to the patient's care, stay tuned. Until then, remember - Sometimes, the solution lies in the problem itself, all we need is a little maturity.