Factors For Patient Recovery: How To Patients Recovery?

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In this assignment I wish to explore in the factors that help patients to recover. I made this approach by keying in “factors that affect the patient’s recovery” in Google. I obtained a large amount of literature results, but I have selected the ones that were more likely to answer my question. I am concerned if the factors are being practiced as I have noticed that patients are taking longer time to recover than usual. There are also many cases where the patient has no will to recover from their illness with some factors. One factor that affects the recovery of a patient is the psychological state of the patient whether they are in stress or depression (IM, 2011). It is important for the nurse to find out about the psychological state of the …show more content…

Time spent by the nurse with the patient is for the nurse to explain to the patient and their spouse about the care and treatment the patient will be going through so that they have the knowledge about what is going on. I feel it is important for both of them to know in order for the nurse to gain cooperation during the care and treatment. Through this the spouse of the patient will be able to understand the situation and will show more affection towards …show more content…

Patients must always get a balanced diet in their meal so that they get enough nutrition in their body which will make their metabolism rate stable. It is important for a patient to have a good diet plan because their metabolism will decrease which will slow down the process of them recovering if they are malnutrition (Ihle, 2017). It is difficult to tell some of the patients what to eat as some of them will not like the food at hospital, maybe because they do not like the taste of the food or it may not be cooked or presented properly to increase their appetite and so they may end up not eating and therefore they will not get the nutrients they need and as a result they will take longer time to recover. The last but not the least factor is the safety of the patient. This factor is referring to the medication that is given to the patient by the nurse as the nurse may have delayed in giving the medication to the patient because they may be busy or the patient must have gone for some treatment out the ward. The nurse also may not have sufficient knowledge about the medication or is not actively listening to the patient therefore they patient may take long time to recover (Hayes,

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