نمونه ترجمه تخصصی پرستاری درباره همراه بیمار

Patient companion

Human is a creature with biological, psychological, and social aspects and his behavior is affected by others around him. He has several needs and some of them are more vital than the others. Unsatisfied needs may have negative effects on one’s health. The essence of nurses’ clinical performance is to provide peace and comfort for the patient and this is achieved by recognizing physical, spiritual, and mental needs of the patient. Therefore, nurses need to follow a holistic approach to patient and perceive them as a whole physical, mental, and social beings and respect their diverse aspects of beliefs and basic and spiritual needs. Thereby, nurses have to deal with two types of cares; professional cares including health-therapeutic services and non-professional cares including primary services for patients (e.g. feeding, showering, bowel movement, emotional support, etc.). Nowadays, patient companions help the patient to meet these primary needs and provide stuff needed in this regard. Patient companions act as non-professional care givers. Non-professional care givers are usually family members, relatives, or friends who stay with the patients for company and along with primary cares provide a critical source of emotional support and security for their patients. Family is the first and most important institute of human society, which plays a key role in social processes and mental health of individuals and society. The majority of patients are barely able to handle self-care tasks and rely on other’s help for fulfilling such needs. Family as a provider of support can play a key role in supply non-professional cares and improve health condition of the patient. Patient companions are always a key player in providing primary cares to patients so that they act as unregistered health staff and need continuous support from the health system. However, handing over a great deal of health care tasks to them without taking into account their mental and social needs and in absence of a documented program and arrangement may lead to tension with health staff and dissatisfaction with their presence . Our society is faced with serious shortage of nursing and nurse assistant work force, which leads to inadequate services to patients. Nursing workforce have enough resources only to provide technical services and understaffed wards prevent nurses from providing mental and spiritual supports. As a result, patient companions have become a necessary element that along with non-professional cares, provide emotional and motivational supports for better implementation of treatment program. There are even cases that patient companions participate in affairs for which they have no knowledge and this might lead to problems. Therefore, their presence is always faced with resistance from the health staff.