Question

Read the scenario below.

Outline a plan to address this patient’s concerns and the reason for admission. In your plan, be sure to:

identify interventions (with rationale) to support the patient.

identify interventions (with rationale) to address behaviors of the hospital staff.

Each student will respond to at least two classmates’ posts by offering support for the plan and offering suggestions to the plan.

Scenario: A nurse working on a medical-surgical unit admits a new patient who identifies as transgender. This patient has been called the wrong name and referred to by the wrong pronoun at the nurses’ desk. The patient is scared and wants to leave the hospital. What can the nurse do to develop trust, create comfort, and keep the patient engaged in care?

Answer 1

The rapport established between a health care professional and a patient are extremely crucial in the quality of care.Trust forms the basis for all irrespective of any field,when this is lost the continuity of care is lost creates an environment of mistrust and finally bidding away from it.

The nurse at this stage should make a sincere apology to the patient and make the patient feel that they are important to them and osupporting them,assisting in all basic needs ,establishing a good ccommunication can make the patient to drop the idea of being leaving the hospital.