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The role of the nurse in providing care to patients with short bowel syndrome
BUNDOVÁ, Jana
Short Bowel syndrome characteristically belongs whithin a groop of recognizable symptoms which result from the loss of small intestine or damaged absorption. Because of the advancement of complex medication and intravenous feeding, home patient care is continously increasing. In the year 2008 intravenous feeding was used upon 57 adult patients in 15 health centres. These patients are vulnerable to the full range of complications. Among the most freekvent complications are infections of the location where the needle is injected. The role of the nurse towards the patient is irreplaceable due to the importance of the care resting upon the nurse to ensure no infection can originate. This research deals with the difficulty of the nurse´s role assigned care of the patient with Short Bowel syndrome. The goal of this project is to map out the level of information and experiences which nurses have regarding the care of those patients whit this afliction. A further goal is to discover how careful the patients are regarding the use and care of intravenous catheter to keep infection away. From the analysis obtained, the majority of the nurses have enough informations conserning the care of patients with Short bowel syndrome. These nurses consider the care of these patients to be every bit as demanding as the care required for patients with other condicions. Nurses are now capable of taking control of this care. This viewpoint is supported by even patients who have this condition who have had faverable experiences. Patients are now well enough informed to be able to indepenndently administer intravenuous injections in ther own home envirement, but always in the copany of family members or a home care assistent

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