Long Term Care Nurse Interview

[Name of the Institute] Introduction

Working with the chronically ill patients is not a task which requires tremendous professionalism along with the fulfillment of the medical and social values. To find out more on the subject, following is the interview of the nurse, Katherine Parker, based upon her experiences of health care, specifically gained as a nurse in hospital taking care of patients suffering from long term chronic diseases. She has been a registered nurse since 1990. She initially rendered her services in neurosurgery, orthopaedics, and internal medicine wards. During her career, she also specialized in anesthetic and diabetes care. After that, she engaged herself in the care of long term chronically ill elderly people and worked in home care. In the interview she has shared her point of view about her profession especially in home care.

The main objective of this interview is to have a professional's opinion on the homecare nursing to find out strengths and weaknesses of the profession. The interview will also motivate the other young people to adopt the profession.

Q. Ho do you explain home care in the light of your experience?

Kate: Home care, to me, is the heart of the district nurse's work. It greatly differs from hospital care as I think medical professional perspective reigns and dictates in the hospital. I gradually came to know that the only way for developing a long term relations with patients especially elderly, and which is fulfilling for both the parties, is to eliminate the nurse's professional role and make efforts to behave like a partner with the patient.

Q. How will you interpret you interpret your interest in home care nursing for elderly people?

Kate: My interpretation is that I got interested in the patient perspective by being close to the patient's world. The ...