Rights and Limitations of Preoperative Nurses


 


 


 


            In the recent decade, nurses are greatly in demand in various countries. In


 


United States and Canada, it’s not just in the hospitals that nurses are needed


 


but also in homes for the aged where elderly have to had intensive care. It is a


 


noble profession that requires patience and dedication.


 


            Like every profession related in medicine field, nursing is more about the


 


best interest of the patient than anything else. Odds are not counted because life


 


is on at stake. Even precarious surgeries and procedures should be thoroughly


 


analyzed, if it will jeopardize the life of the patient, before considering it. But at


 


the end of day, it’s in the doctors and nurses’ hands if the procedure would be


 


successful or not.


 


            Nursing care is very much important in the medicine industry. Nurses are


 


not mere assistants of doctors. They play an essential part from diagnosis to


 


recovery process.


 


            Preoperative nursing is a specialized area of nursing in which a certain


 


registered nurse takes care of a surgical patient before, during and after a major


 


operation. Preoperational nursing encompasses the whole being of the patient,


 


from physiological, psychological, sociocultural and spiritual aspects.


 


Preoperative nurses are responsible for the safety of the patient from admittance


 


to the hospital to being discharged. Competency such as outstanding clinical


 


knowledge, organizational teamwork and interpersonal skills is needed for a


 


registered nurse to be considered in the preoperational nursing arena.


            Preoperative nursing have four fundamental responsibilities: to promote


 


health, to prevent illness, to restore health and to alleviate suffering. It is


 


unrestricted by considerations race, age, color, religion, illness or disability,


 


culture, or social status. Anyone is entitled to such caring that needs it.


Considering that it’s in the hands of the preoperative nurse the health of


 


his patient, he has the right to restrict certain things that would jeopardize the


 


health of the patient. For example, foods and goods brought by the family of the


 


patient will not help in the recovering period, the preoperative nurse has the right


 


to keep a strict eye on what the patient is in taking. Also, recommending on what


 


to eat is also a right of the nurse. It’s their responsibility to  make the patient


 


recover as fast as possible.


 


            The preoperative nurse has the right in holding the personal information


 


about the patient. However, he has to have scrutiny about the confidentiality of


 


the record. Sufficient knowledge about the patient will be the bottom line of proper


 


care and related treatment.


 


            However, there also limitations in the relationship between the


 


preoperative nurse and the patient. Being sensitive to customs and values of the


 


patient is deemed necessary. Some language and actions may be acceptable to


 


some societies, but not for others. Food is also a major part of the respected


 


customs, especially if it anchors on religious beliefs.


 


            Any medical nursing should only be professional and should never taken


 


as personal. Using of emotions in inappropriate way will affect the medication of


 


the patient. Especially if the patient is in already weak and deteriorating


 


condition, a nurse being too much attached to a certain person will only be


 


haunted by failure to save the patient.


 


            Preoperative nursing is a continuous process of learning. Even long time


 


nurses in this area of medicine still have to study every case that they encounter.


 


It should sustain a harmonious relationship between the nurses and the patients.


 


            Ethical standards should be applied at all times in area of nursing. Rights


 


and limitations should be clear from the very start. Competent training and


 


orientation on technical and emotional handling is essential.


 


            A nurse is an important health professional that seems to be closer to


 


society because the nature of its job. They took care of patient without questions


 


asked or discriminating ideas. They do whatever they can so that the patient will


 


regain it full health even from before.


 


            Even some patients are obvious to be hopeless, they still took care of


 


them in the maximum extent possible. Care and love could proportionately


 


alternated, but they are the same as they do their best in nursing their patient.


 


They learned to cope to life, and to loss.


 


 


 


 


References:


 


http://healthmad.com


https://vic.pvhs.org


http://www.ifpn.org.uk


 



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