Contents:
- Medical Video: Preparing a Patient for Surgery
- Give your contact
- Make the patient feel comfortable
- Learning to manage stress
- Share knowledge and provide support to patients
Medical Video: Preparing a Patient for Surgery
Being a nurse may not be an easy job. Long working hours, physical and emotional stress, and payments that may be low can make you feel overwhelmed. Remind yourself that your role as a nurse is very important during the patient recovery process, for example for bone surgery patients.
Bone surgery is usually needed if the patient has a bone injury. Appropriate care is needed after surgery to ensure complete recovery. After undergoing bone surgery, patients need your help, as well as when they need a doctor's help. If you are assigned to treat patients after bone surgery, here are some things you should know.
Give your contact
This step is not only carried out by nurses, but the families of patients and doctors. Doctors, nurses, family members, and therapists must work together as a team to support patients. It is very important to maintain good relations with each other to monitor the patient's condition and in any emergency.
If you only check the patient several times a week to see the progress of his health, make sure you give him your telephone number just in case there are questions or emergencies. For nurses 24 hours a day, you may often leave patients to take prescriptions or medical supplies. Therefore, give the patient a bell or a button to call the nurse when they need help.
Make the patient feel comfortable
Your task is not only to remind patients to take medication or change their bandages. Patients who have undergone surgery must rest to recover their bones before they are able to return to normal activities. During this period, most nurses will help patients carry out daily routines, such as eating, dressing, and bathing. Many nurses have good relationships with patients because they have spent more time together. To help you deal with stress, try to be friends with your own patients. When you are able to talk and share feelings with your patient, the work no longer feels heavy. Build bonds with your patients and treat patients as family members themselves. Thus, patients will also feel the same.
After the patient's bones are healed, you may act as a personal "manager" for your patients to schedule therapy, follow up on schedule visits, manage insurance issues, and provide transportation. You must work with a physical therapist to help your patient restore strength and movement after surgery. This activity will spend most of your time while reducing time for yourself.
Learning to manage stress
As a nurse, you must put patient well-being as your top priority. This work requires emotional, spiritual, and physical strength. However, being a nurse is not a matter of personal needs. All you need to do is learn to manage your stress. Here are some methods that you can try:
Relaxation for 2 minutes
Take about 2 minutes to relax. Close your eyes and empty your mind and focus on breathing. Take deep breaths and slowly exhale. Feel the body that is well-tensed and cramped, then relax by loosening your muscles.
Turn your head in a circular motion once or twice. Then turn your shoulders forward then back. Take deep breaths and slowly exhale.
Mind relaxation
Take advantage of your free time by relaxing your mind. Close your eyes, inhale through your nose. Slowly, exhale, whisper to yourself, "I feel very peaceful." Continue this movement for 10 minutes. Make sure you stay focused on breathing. This exercise must be done slowly and steadily.
Deep breathing relaxation
This exercise involves breathing through the stomach. Imagine the bottom of the navel. Breathe by filling air into your stomach. Then let the air out so that the stomach is like a balloon that deflates. Every long, slow breath must make you feel more relaxed.
Fantasy
Imagine a peaceful scene. Let your mind guide the body into relaxed conditions. The peaceful scenery that you can imagine is a beach or a garden filled with trees and blooming flowers.
Change behavior
You can manage your stress through lifestyle changes and mindset, such as:
- Adjust your expectations
- Become a more assertive person
- Exercise regularly
- Eat healthy food
- Become a positive person
- Express your feelings with others
- Listen to the opinions of others
Even though it's busy, you have to spend time managing stress. If you are able to take care of yourself, then you are able to care for patients.
Share knowledge and provide support to patients
To understand the patient, you must be more sensitive to the patient's condition. This step will help you treat patients better while making your work easier. In addition, you will find it easier to find out the signs of complications in patients after bone surgery. Information provided to patients' family members also allows families to participate in monitoring complications that can occur.
Although it may be stressful and tiring, work as a nurse can provide satisfaction, confidence and appreciation for yourself. You will learn about inner strength and develop potential that you did not even realize before.
Hello Health Group does not provide medical advice, diagnosis or treatment.
