英文摘要 |
This paper aims at exploring the nursing experience in a patient with end stage renal disease who received first-time hemodialysis. Gordon 11 Function Health Patterns were applied for evaluations from May 27, 2019 to June 16, 2019. Observations, interviews, physical assessments and medical history reviews were the measures taken for data collection. Several nursing problems, including excessive fluid volume, specific knowledge deficit and anxiety, were thus found and confirmed. The re-establishment and management of body fluid balance was achieved by providing cards with enlarged pictures of“food items forbidden or eaten less”, adjusting cooking methods and using a fixed-volume water kettle. Then, multi-media video clips and“color cards of dressing change steps”were presented to improve the patient’s self-care capability and nursing skills involved in vascular access for hemodialysis. In addition, we helped the patient to ease anxiety and adapt to daily lifestyle changes by listening to and encouraging the patient to express negative emotions, arranging other hemodialysis patients to share their successful experiences and actively convening cross-professional and family meetings. This nursing process enabled us to discover that the major difficulty for the nursing staff taking care of the patient was to help him accept the doctor’s treatment advice in a timely manner. Without access to information about kidney dialysis, the patient would not be prepared for hemodialysis in time. On the other hand, the nursing limitation encountered in this study was that comprehensive assessments on dialysis results and timely nursing adjustments could not be made merely through care given on the day of hemodialysis and upon followup calls after discharge from hospital. Based on the above nursing experience, it is suggested that a system for giving early referrals to kidney care teams should be put into practice and long-term care programs should facilitate in-depth family visits in communities and continuous tracking so as to help patients adapt to future life with hemodialysis. Hopefully, this experience can serve as a reference for nursing staff providing care for patients receiving hemodialysis in the future. |