ROLE OF NURSE

Role of a Nurse in Caring Pin Site after External Applicator

Role of a Nurse in Caring Pin Site after External Applicator

Introduction

Role of nurse is defined as care that has an independent technical basis, the objectives, contents, tasks and duties. Nurses are defined as a person who has approved training in the profession for nursing. Patient care is determined by the need of care for the planning and execution review of care, along with the proper education, knowledge and training for taking patient's care. Nursing care for the patient aims to aid and assist patient in order to maintain, modify or restore the physical, psychological or social functions and activities of its life. Specifically in caring for pin site after external applicator, the role of nurse becomes more critical, because the patient needs to have continuous help and support from nurse or healthcare staff.

Literature Review

Care includes patient care, creating favorable conditions for its recovery, alleviate suffering and prevent complications. Good care requires not only knowledge and skills but also the sensitivity, tact, the ability of the psychological impact to overcome the increased irritability patient, holding his anxiety, sometimes even despair, escape from excessive attention to their disease. Restrained, smooth and relaxed attitude supports patient strengthens his will to fulfill all medical requirements (Crews & Zelen, 2008, pp. 416-422).

It has been proven from the prior conducted studies that the quality of the patient's personality, his mental attitude significantly affect the course of the disease and its outcome. More bravely endured illness people are quiet, relaxed, and able to manage their feelings and overcome difficulties. Sometimes patient behave differently, they become weak in spirit that results in easy to fall into despair. Those who are more susceptible to disease, carry them calmer than ill for the first time. But sometimes it also happens that the patient not only underestimates the severity of his condition, but he denies the disease. There are critical and extreme care is required in regards to the role of a nurse in caring Pin Site after external applicator or fixator.

According to Temple & Santy (2008) A systematic review on postoperative care of pin sites insertion for preventing infections associated with external bone fixator nails and aims to assess the effect on infection rates of different cleaning methods and dressing the sites were inserted. In the main results, the RS only includes a randomized clinical trial (RCT) that included (30 patients and 120 pinning sites so that 40 sites were pinning for each experimental or control group), and compares the cleaning 0.9% saline, cleaning with 70% alcohol and no cleansing and found significantly fewer infections in sites with nails that had not been cleaned. The 25% of participants whose nails were cleaned with saline solution 0.9% (n = 10) developed infections, 18% of those participants whose nails were cleaned with alcohol 70% (n = 7) and 8% (n = 3) of participants in the control group (no cleansing). All insertion sites of the nails were sprayed with aerosol ...