When it comes to healthcare, treating the patient is not the only way to help nurse the patient back to health. Many factors can play a vital role in helping the patient recover. The environment that the patient is in while recovering is important to consider because these small elements can add up to be a strong force in supporting the patient’s route to recovery. The hospital setting today can be stressful for a patient. By building an environment where the patient will not only feel safe in the hands of healthcare providers but also be comfortable in the hospital setting, hospitals can help put patients at ease. Many aspects in regards to the design of the hospital can be paid attention to in order to provide quality healthcare. Building hospitals that accommodate …show more content…
The lighting of a hospital setting is important because it provides the patient with natural light that supports the patient in recovery. Natural light has implications of not only improving patients’ well-being, but also improving hospital staff performance. Improving healthcare provider working conditions can lead to better healthcare and quicker recovery. Nature plays a vital role in environmental design. The hospital setting, despite being a place of healing, can be a dreary place that can be perceived as a place that holds sickness. Patients may become stressed and overwhelmed with their sickness, which can affect their recovery and well-being. Nature provides a pause from the worries and stress of the hospital and provide a distraction for the patient to recollect themselves. Most importantly, the design of a hospital is essential in creating these elements. Ensuring that the hospital is oriented in the most effective manner allows patients to receive the very best healthcare available. This paper will establish the importance of these elements in the hospital setting and how they affect the outcome of the patient’s
In nursing, the patient is often viewed as the main priority of the nursing staff. The nurse works to provide care for the patient based on the patient 's admitting diagnosis. However, the patient must be looked at as a part of the greater system they exist in such as their family or home environment. While the patient may be ill due to a bacterial infection or virus, their family environment also plays a role in their overall health and wellness.
Although nurses do not wield the power of doctors in hospital settings, they are still able to effectively compensate for a doctor’s deficits in a variety of ways to assure patient recovery. Nurses meet a patient’s physical needs, which assures comfort and dignity Nurses explain and translate unfamiliar procedures and treatments to patients which makes the patient a partner in his own care and aids in patient compliance. Nurses communicate patient symptoms and concerns to physicians so treatment can be altered if necessary and most importantly, nurses provide emotional support to patients in distress.
The second concept, the environment, is the setting that can be controlled by the nurse or an individual to augment comfort. (Masters, 2017). In a hospital setting this could include dimming the lights, providing a low stimulation environment, or limiting visitors. Another example may be removing an individual from a situation that is not conducive to healing. Health is the third concept and refers to the orchestration and collaboration of those involved in assisting the patient to a state of well-being. Lastly, the concept of nursing describes the utilization of the nursing process of assessment, planning, intervention to meet the comfort needs of the individual and evaluating the effectiveness of those
The healing hospital model focused on treating not only the epidemic disease or ill state of the patient but also the spiritual and feeling needs of the patient. According to Erie Chapman, a patient needs not only outer body healing but also healing of the psychological state of mind and spiritual self. There are three main factors of healing hospitals and they are making a healing in the physical sense of the environment, bringing together work style, technology, and a tradition of Extreme Love Care.
A nurse is able to achieve this great balance, with the patient and self, by being conscious of the environment that surrounds them and through self awareness. For example, in the scene of an emergency, first and foremost, a nurse must check the environment before started emergent care. Both the patient and nurse must be safe for treatment to be effective. The environment is what surrounds us; our workplace, home, communities, issues we think about, the people we interact with, and the emotions associated with these interactions. The nurse knows that all of these components play an integral role in maintaining stability in a person’s life and health. The nurse assumes care of not just a disease process but of a human being as a whole; a family, a livelihood, a spirit, a person. A nurse knows that in order for holistic care to be effective, the care taker themselves should be at a point of stability as well. A true nurse knows that in order to excel you must know your limits and understand that while your main goal is to help the patient regain their strength, identity, and independence, that goal does not have to be achieved by compromising your own self, identity, and
I believe people are connected beings with fundamental pride and values. To appropriately care for a person, the patient must be considered as a whole package. In order to do this, the person’s physical, social, psychological, cultural, spiritual, and aspects of their life must be considered when creating a plan of care. Environment can be defined as “the aggregate of surrounding things, conditions, or influences; surrounding and the social and cultural forces that shape the life of a person or a population,” (n.d.). A person’s environment is such a large part of their life and such an influencing factor on their day-to-day decisions. Their environment includes their socio-economic status (can they afford their prescriptions? Is the test that’s being run really necessary or an undue burden on them financially?), demographics (what is their understanding of health? What are their religious beliefs? what are their race/are they more susceptible to certain conditions?), access of to health care (do they drive/have transportation? Do they have health insurance?), and social support (are they alone? Do they have too much support with too many opinions?). As a nurse, one must always know a person is in continuous contact with their environment and the stress that come along with it. An appropriate and relaxing environment can impact a patient’s adherence to their medications and treatments and reduce their recovery time. The third concept on which I based my philosophy is health, which is the absence of illness. As a nurse and/or practitioner, it is important to focus on the patient’s main health complaint as well as any associated symptoms, needs, and overall wellness of the patient. Nursing is the promotion, deterrence of sickness and harm, protection, optimization of wellbeing and abilities; and advocacy in the care of individuals, populations, communities,
The patients main goal is to get better; their health is extremely important to them and being in the hospital is not where they would like to be. The patients mental state is extremely important to consider; as being sick can have an adverse reaction to their body alongside whatever is making them sick or hurt. The textbook, Nursing: A concept-based approach to learning. (Vol. 1) defines health as “a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease.” (2015) A lot of factors influence a patient’s health, not just their sickness or injury. I believe that is what health is; a combination of peoples physical, mental, and social well-being. Combine those three factors with an injury or illness and it can determine how the patient’s body will react to healing and the injury itself. Illness can mean a lot of different things for people; some say they have an illness when they have a common cold while others, when thinking of illness, think of cancer or life-threatening diseases. For me, Illness is whatever disrupts the three factors that make up the health and well-being of someone. Being in a good mental state is extremely important for patients. Having less stressors in a patient’s life can greatly increase their recovery and mindset. Having adequate healthcare is a stressor that can have a great impact on
Meeting the needs and what is best for the patient which is the outcome of the care, building
The provision of patient/family-centered care, which assure safety and quality in the service, would have a team work approach as a foundation and underpinning. In a healing process or in the preservation of health intervene several factors, some of them are closely related with the environment. Healthcare providers constitute an important part of that environment, and definitely, communication with patients, families, and among themselves, have a significant impact on it. The environment would influence the patient’s perception of care, and the staff’s level of
In less stressful environment, nurses able to incorporate caring relationship, improve interactions between patient and a nurse, and develop understanding of the other person’s perspective (Nicely, K, Sloane, D., Aiden, L., 2012).
Every person’s needs must be recognized, respected, and filled if he or she must attain wholeness. The environment must attuned to that wholeness for healing to occur. Healing must be total or holistic if health must be restored or maintained. And a nurse-patient relationship is the very foundation of nursing (Conway et al 2011; Johnson, 2011). The Theory recognizes a person’s needs above all. It sets up the conducive environment to healing. It addresses and works on the restoration and maintenance of total health rather than only specific parts or aspect of the patient’s body or personality. And these are possible only through a positive healing relationship between the patient and the nurse (Conway et al, Johnson).
As nurses frequently interact with the patients, they are the ones exploring evidence-based practice to identify ways to modify the hospital environment and use more nonpharmacological methods to promote sleep to help the body repair itself (Robinson et al., 2005). Florence Nightingale noted patients require proper nutrition, sleep, quiet, and “unnecessary noise harms the patient” (Robinson et al., 2005, p. 263). Nurses have identified many ways to help patients get rest, including relaxation techniques, music, warm blankets, warm drinks, massage, and aromatherapy (Robinson et al., 2005).
Nurses are an equally important part of each client’s life. Nurses provide stable care to each client, answers their questions, gives medications and treatments, and assists with medical procedures. They also have the responsibility to explain to clients and family members what they should and should not do as they go through treatment and recovery. Nurses must quickly respond to patients needs. Every individual nurse has his or her own unique way of caring. There are so many ways to show caring that the possibilities are never ending. Nurse’s support, comfort, and help allow the patients to recover to the best of their ability. Their experiences in dealing with different patients that have unique situations on a daily basis helps the nurses become better caregivers. Therefore, every nurse is capable of demonstrating care in their respective environments.
A theory I can relate to is Nightingales theory, I found her theory to be extremely interesting. A patient health is affected by the environment that they are in, whether it is at the hospital or at their house. Once a patient is discharged the nurse should be aware of the patient home environment, what they have access to, and what they don’t have.
What comes to mind when you think of at the average United States hospital room? White walls, squeaky green but easy to clean linoleum flooring, frightening medical equipment, a tiny television, and one small chair for visitors are often some of the items that come to mind. Patients are placed in an environment with an institutional feel and little emphasis on aesthetics and are expected to heal, recover and rehabilitate as quickly as possible. The measure of success for healthcare organizations had a primary