Open AccessMedicine as a frontier: the foreign multipathological patient
Author(s) -
Roberta Gallo
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
clinical management issues
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2283-3137
pISSN - 1973-4832
DOI - 10.7175/cmi.v5i2s.1115
Subject(s) - medicine , schedule , face (sociological concept) , pediatrics , nursing , intensive care medicine , family medicine , social science , sociology , computer science , operating system
A Moroccan 66-year-old female patient arrives in the hospital, where the physicians make the diagnosis of hepatic encephalopathy, HBV-related cirrhosis and decompensated diabetes. This article points out the problems and the aims that a good nursing management must face in the case of a multipathological patient who doesn’t speak italian. In this case the difficulty consists also in the understanding and the acceptance of a new life-style by the patient and her family, due to the chronicity of the diseases. The team work, helped by the assistance of the italian-speaking caregiver, taking into account the clinical condition and the culture and religion related needs, let the patient understand the therapeutic schedule to follow at home and obtained a good compliance by the patient and by her family.