Rights and Limitations of Preoperative Nurses
In the recent decade, nurses are greatly in demand in various countries. In
United States and Canada, it’s not just in the hospitals that nurses are needed
but also in homes for the aged where elderly have to had intensive care. It is a
noble profession that requires patience and dedication.
Like every profession related in medicine field, nursing is more about the
best interest of the patient than anything else. Odds are not counted because life
is on at stake. Even precarious surgeries and procedures should be thoroughly
analyzed, if it will jeopardize the life of the patient, before considering it. But at
the end of day, it’s in the doctors and nurses’ hands if the procedure would be
successful or not.
Nursing care is very much important in the medicine industry. Nurses are
not mere assistants of doctors. They play an essential part from diagnosis to
recovery process.
Preoperative nursing is a specialized area of nursing in which a certain
registered nurse takes care of a surgical patient before, during and after a major
operation. Preoperational nursing encompasses the whole being of the patient,
from physiological, psychological, sociocultural and spiritual aspects.
Preoperative nurses are responsible for the safety of the patient from admittance
to the hospital to being discharged. Competency such as outstanding clinical
knowledge, organizational teamwork and interpersonal skills is needed for a
registered nurse to be considered in the preoperational nursing arena.
Preoperative nursing have four fundamental responsibilities: to promote
health, to prevent illness, to restore health and to alleviate suffering. It is
unrestricted by considerations race, age, color, religion, illness or disability,
culture, or social status. Anyone is entitled to such caring that needs it.
Considering that it’s in the hands of the preoperative nurse the health of
his patient, he has the right to restrict certain things that would jeopardize the
health of the patient. For example, foods and goods brought by the family of the
patient will not help in the recovering period, the preoperative nurse has the right
to keep a strict eye on what the patient is in taking. Also, recommending on what
to eat is also a right of the nurse. It’s their responsibility to make the patient
recover as fast as possible.
The preoperative nurse has the right in holding the personal information
about the patient. However, he has to have scrutiny about the confidentiality of
the record. Sufficient knowledge about the patient will be the bottom line of proper
care and related treatment.
However, there also limitations in the relationship between the
preoperative nurse and the patient. Being sensitive to customs and values of the
patient is deemed necessary. Some language and actions may be acceptable to
some societies, but not for others. Food is also a major part of the respected
customs, especially if it anchors on religious beliefs.
Any medical nursing should only be professional and should never taken
as personal. Using of emotions in inappropriate way will affect the medication of
the patient. Especially if the patient is in already weak and deteriorating
condition, a nurse being too much attached to a certain person will only be
haunted by failure to save the patient.
Preoperative nursing is a continuous process of learning. Even long time
nurses in this area of medicine still have to study every case that they encounter.
It should sustain a harmonious relationship between the nurses and the patients.
Ethical standards should be applied at all times in area of nursing. Rights
and limitations should be clear from the very start. Competent training and
orientation on technical and emotional handling is essential.
A nurse is an important health professional that seems to be closer to
society because the nature of its job. They took care of patient without questions
asked or discriminating ideas. They do whatever they can so that the patient will
regain it full health even from before.
Even some patients are obvious to be hopeless, they still took care of
them in the maximum extent possible. Care and love could proportionately
alternated, but they are the same as they do their best in nursing their patient.
They learned to cope to life, and to loss.
References:
http://healthmad.com
https://vic.pvhs.org
http://www.ifpn.org.uk
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