Responding to and adapting to the environment might encompass improving the comfort level of the patient, distracting the patient with positive talk, providing emotional counsel, and noting alternations in the patient's overall state of mental or physical wellness that might require additional treatment.
Health
Health may be defined by the patient's state of relative physical, emotional, and sociological well-being (Hagopian, 2009, Slide 7). Questions that might arise when assessing the patient's health are: How functional is the patient? How positive is his or her mindset? What sort of social and financial resources does he or she have to improve his or her treatment? All of these factors affect one another. For example, someone without adequate health insurance may have a less positive attitude about his or her treatment than someone with the same medical condition. Patients may have different definitions of what constitutes a 'quality' life that will affect their response to and desire for treatment. A nurse must respond to these different health indicators in a holistic fashion. Additionally, familial perceptions of the patient's health will have an impact upon the patient. Health is individualized and culturally bound ideal as well as a medical concept. A former athlete might experience a more profound loss of identity and self upon being ill than someone who is sedentary and different cultures may have different concepts of when an elderly individual should relinquish some of the decision-making about their treatment at the end of life.
Nursing as a scientific discipline
A nurse is the ultimate 'first responder.' A nurse must observe the patient empirically and humanely, and different situations will call forth different aspects of nursing. The nurse must adapt, and help the patient adapt, to changes in the patient's environment,...
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