Principles of patient and family assessment

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The era of the principle of palliative care. The authors decided that this module is very useful and informative for patients, families, and medical professionals. Pain is one of the worst symptoms facing patients and families at the end of life. The primary responsibility of nurses is to work hard to evaluate pain and actively manage uncontrolled pain. By using opioid analgesics, adjuvants and alternative therapies, comfort can be achieved for most people. Then these people can focus more on the psychological and spiritual problems that give meaning on their last days and thereby optimize the quality of their lives.

Recovery involves many clinical and ethical problems and difficulties. The basic principles of bioethics are of great value in evaluating and summarizing ethical dilemmas. Patient education on end-of-life issues, including resuscitation and prior guidance, is important to improve the ability of physicians to comply with the needs of individual patients. Communication with patients and their families is a basic skill to be taught in medical education and to be practiced through careers of emergency physicians.

For good family evaluation, we need sophisticated observation skills and ability to listen positively. Evaluation data is available as long as medical personnel interact with patients and their families. Collecting information on the structure, functions and needs of families is not necessarily limited to structured interviews. Whenever a family is in, you can get detailed information about the family and its role in patient care management. When taking medicine, adjusting the proportion of intravenous injection, or giving tube feeding, to complete a family picture with an informal conversation between the patient and his / her family Helpful data is obtained. Table 9 shows important areas of household evaluation. Understanding the answers to these questions is of great help to establish effective education partnerships with patients and their families.