英文摘要 |
This article describes a perioperative nursing experience of caring for a 32-year-old obese diabetic patient with a BMI of 36. The patient underwent the surgery for laparoscopic gastric bypass. The nursing period was from September 14 to 17, 2010. With Gordon's 11 functional health patterns tool for assessment, data were collected through observation, interviews, medical history reviews, and physical examination. Based on data analysis, the patient's health problems included preoperative anxiety, high risk of surgical injury during the perioperative period, pain from surgical incision, and lack of knowledge about post-operative care. The patient's concern about effective control of body weight and health improvement after surgery motivated the author to initiate this research report. During the entire nursing care process, the author briefly introduced the environment of the operating room through multi-media, instructed what the patient needed to know before and after the surgeries, and provided adequate support. The author presented previous successful cases to build the patient's confidence in surgery and lower the patient's anxiety. The care interventions during the perioperative period included keeping the patient warm, providing adequate protection, counting correctly surgical instruments, and watching for sterile procedures to prevent potential risk of infection. The author offered distraction skills, applied ice packs to the incision for pain relief, and provided diet instruction to lower gastrointestinal discomfort during the post-operative period. Recommendations for the future are to establish an effective case management model, resolve various nursing problems that the patient faces, and thoroughly implement nursing interventions from pre-to post-surgery for continued and integrated high quality of nursing care. We hope that this article can be shared with other operating room nurses as a reference while caring for patients in similar situations. |