Question

how can you use the concepts of health when you are admitting a patient to a hospital setting.? to a clinic ? to an emergency department ? to a rehabilitation, or long-term care setting ? in initiating home care ? what questions can you ask or what observation can you make to help you gain information about individuals' health strategies, disruptions to health, and factors contributing to their responses to disruptions ? how would you consider health concepts in planning for patients discharge from healthcare settings ?

Answer 1

Admission of patient

Hospital setting: Patient who need a specific period of care by healthcare professionals for acute or chronic conditions.

Some of the questions which can be asked are

• The major complaints which disrupts their daily activity
• Complete physical examination
• Personal history,past medical or surgical history

On observations :

• Vitals changes
• Alteration in airway ,breathing, circulation, loss of consciousness, confusion,acute exacerbating pain,any bleeding etc.,

Clinic: Patient who needs temporary care and are stable after treatment and rest in their home

Some of the question to be asked are

• Complaints of the patient
• The period of the symptoms

Observations

• Differentiate whether it is a minor or major case,if minor can be treated if major can be adviced to visit a hospital

Emergency department :Patients who needs immediatecare to save lives or prevent cimplications

Some of the questions to be asked are

• If patient conscious the cause of the problem to be asked, if unconscious collect information from the relative

Observations

• No airway, breathing, circulation, loss of consciousness, profuse bleeding, abnormal vitals
• Any open injury ,

Rehabilitation or Long term care:Patient who needs a care to recover to their normal functions for a prolonged period of time in months

The observations to be made are

• The nature of physical or mental disabilities

Home care :Patient are cared by the healthcare professionalsin their residence

The question to be asked are

• The medical conditions of the patient
• The type of care needed for the patients

Observations to be made are

• Physical and mental status
• Skin conditions for any ulcers,musculoskeletal skeletal disorder as a whole

When a patient is to be discharged from a healthcare setting The following health concepts to be concerned

• The health status of the patient
• Educating on the use of medication and its side effects
• Report in case of any abnormal symptoms
• Encourage to visit for follow up to assess the progress,prognosis of the disease condition.