Title: Effect of the Nurses' Home Visiting on Discharged Patients in Health Care Department
Abstract:Objective To investigate the effect of the nurse' home visiting on the discharged patients in the health care department.Methods Sixty discharged patients in the health care department were randomly d...Objective To investigate the effect of the nurse' home visiting on the discharged patients in the health care department.Methods Sixty discharged patients in the health care department were randomly divided into two groups:follow-up group(30 cases)and control group(30 cases).The discharged patients in the control group were asked to take medicine and do exercise according to the doctors' advice,pay attention items to some items in working and living at ordinarily,come back to the hospital regularly for health check.The patients in the follow-up group,besides being asked to do the same things,were given home visiting by nurses for 6 months,once half a month,for 12 times in total.An investigation was carried out half a month after the last home visiting.The investigation contents included how the doctors' advice was implemented,how steady the patient's conditions were,what were the times to see a doctor or to be re-hospitalized within half a year,and what was the patient's attitude to the home visiting.The same investigation as the follow-up group was carried out for the patients in the control group.The investigation results were compared between the two groups.Results A great majority of the patients in the follow-up group patients could implement the discharged advice better as compared with the patients in the control group,with a significant difference(P0.01).No one had been re-hospitalized in the follow-up group.But in the control group more than half of the patients had to see a doctor again,some patients had been re-hospitalized,and some even for three times.The differences between the two groups were significant(P0.01).All the patients in the follow-up group and most of the patients in the control group welcome the nurses' home visiting,the difference was significant(P0.01)between these two groups.Conclusion The home visiting by nurses in the health care department can make the patients implement the doctors' advice well,the patient conditions steady and the times of seeing a doctor and being re-hospitalized decrease.So it is helpful to the rehabilitation of the discharged patients,and thus is well welcomed by the patients.Read More
Publication Year: 2008
Publication Date: 2008-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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