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Preparing for Acute Care Situations
The downloadable ‘Marie’ in Hospital Profile illustrates
the profile of a patient moving from a domiciliary setting into
hospital. Such profiles can help a patient or their family/carers,
worried about how well they will cope in the future, prepare for
possible future care interventions.
Such material can enhance hospital
or residential/nursing care so that:
A person, recovering from a serious
surgical or medical problem may wish, in the comfort of their
own home, to communicate to an advocate their personal wishes
about what is important to them in their daily lives.
Their family/friends may
also add their experience in helping them cope with daily living
situations.
These communication and
an observation profiles can be lodged with their GP records for
use should they at some point be admitted to hospital or to residential/nursing
care.
It is also possible
for acute hospitals to enhance their patient admissions, so that
on admission hospital resources are committed to collecting and
combining key aspects of patients communication and observation
profiles for use on the wards - and staff are trained to use them.
Press
here to download ‘Marie’ in Hospital Profile pdf file
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