NURSING CARE FOR THE COMFORT OF HOSPITALIZED PATIENTS
Ensuring the comfort of hospitalized patients is a key aspect of the healing process. Comfort is a basic need and refers to the patient's physical and emotional well-being. It is essential to identify and analyze the factors that influence the patient's comfort in the context of his physic...
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| Language: | English |
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Union of Scientists - Stara Zagora
2024-04-01
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| Series: | Science & Research |
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| Summary: | Ensuring the comfort of hospitalized patients is a key aspect of the healing process. Comfort is a basic need and refers to the patient's physical and emotional well-being. It is essential to identify and analyze the factors that influence the patient's comfort in the context of his physical health, lifestyle, living environment and cultural values.
The purpose of the study is to clarify the concept of comfort, the various factors that influence patient comfort, to develop a multidimensional framework and practical nursing approaches to improve it.
Material and methods: the present study is based on the search, selection and critical review of scientific articles and other source documents related to the definition of the concept of comfort in healthcare; factors influencing the comfort of hospitalized patients; importance of comfort in the healing process and nursing care for its improvement.
Results and discussion: The analysis of the available literature proved that the main factors influencing patient comfort can be organizational and individual, namely: hospital environment, communication, pain management, cultural competence. Each of these factors can be monitored and the risk of discomfort reduced.
Conclusion: Providing comfort is a nursing process, function, and outcome. Increasing the comfort level of each patient is individual and is critical to providing quality and safe nursing care and achieving better health outcomes. |
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| ISSN: | 2535-0765 |