Nursing Patient Expectations and Goals When One

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Patient expectations and goals

When one is unwell, there are expectations that the individual has and these vary from one patient to another bearing the peculiarity of the sickness the person suffers from. However, there is the other level that determines the differing in the goals that the patients have, and that is the duration or type of care that the patient is put under, be it long-term care, acute care or home care. All these present varying goals and expectations due to the different needs that the patients have.

Long-term care patients

Long-term care is when one needs help of another on the emotional or physical needs over a prolonged period of time. This is often given to people with the patients who need the greatest medical care needs. Due to their health condition, the expectations and goals of these patients include having a highly trained medical practitioner, getting prompt assistance with the essential routines that they are no longer able to conduct on their own-like bathing, moving from one part to the other of the house, washing clothes. They also expect to have therapies that help them recover their normal health status and functions as well as expecting to be provided with equipment that can help them perform and be trained in using the same (National care Planning Council, 2013).

Acute care patients

These are patients who face conditions that if not attended to urgently can lead to life threatening complications and in that manner need immediate attention. These can range from simple but worth attention cuts that can be stitched, to the more complex ones like the life threatening head injuries. To such patients, the expectations and goals are to have the complication or condition immediately identified and attended to, they also expect a 24 hours medical attention (The Regents of University of California, 2013). In most cases, the patients expect to be handled by specialists in the area that affects them. This differs from the long-term care since the patient here will expect urgent care and within a short-term.

Home care patients