Nursing Home Care - Case Study

Nursing Home Care - Case Study

Introduction

Nursing is caring for the health of human beings. It is devoted primarily to the diagnosis and treatment of health problems of patients; Nurse's unique approach focuses on the study of the response of the individual or group to a health problem. The heart of nursing is on promoting health , preventing disease, and providing care to ill, disabled and dying. It also includes also include the defense, promotion of a healthy environment, research, participation in the development of health policy, management of health systems and patients as well as health education (Kulbok, 2012).

Case Summary

The case entails the condition of Mr. Robin who lives with his daughter at a farmhouse. His health status is getting poor and the patient is not willing to move to a health care facility. His daughter is also not at home all the time to take care of him and is really confused about how to tackle the situation. She is thinking to move him to a nursing facility despite the fact that her father does not want to leave the farmhouse.

Discussion

Mr. Robbins' is not willing to be admitted in the nursing facility and his health is getting poorer. Considering the situation and patients' discretion, it is possible to have nursing care at the farmhouse. Home care services are intended to provide health care facilities and care at patients' home and provide him relevant medication (Al-Qudah, 2011). This would ensure that Mr. Robbin is back to good health while his daughter does not have to stay home all the time and can go for work. Nursing includes all the concepts of medication from the birth of the child to the death, providing an individual with all the basic needs of healthy life. A teacher can be a nurse for a child by training them about the healthy needs of life; similarly, a mother can nurse a child when he is ill (Huisman, 2011).

Home health includes several types of intervention such as hospitalization at home (HAD), home care (SAD) and home maintenance (MAD). They differ in particular in relation to the degree of technicality and medication of procedures performed as well as their status: public institutions, non-profit associations, personal Liberals and private structures (Davidson, 2012). Latter also compete more associative structures that held strong positions especially in the HAD and respiratory support at home (Robison, 2012). The intermediate healthcare is intended to provide the facilitation for the transition from hospital to home while the care objectives are non medical like, hospitals discharge the patient earlier or the length of stay at hospital is decreased. Corresponding to the fundamental of care which is close to home, the intermediate care should be given in settings based on community in general, such as, in the home of the patient or in discrete step down facilities on the site of the hospital (Wolf, 2012).

Besides these main actors, networks are also involved in home care. The Home Hospitalization represents the level of ...