Choice and decision making in residential aged care: A perspective from residents and personal care attendants

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Jean Palalagi-Gunston

Swinburne University, Australia

: J Nurs Patient Care

Abstract

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Today, health problems are increasing day by day due to changing living conditions and decreasing life quality standards. Especially vascular diseases are among the most important causes of morbidity and early death worldwide. Vascular structures; malnutrition, structural factors, poor working conditions, etc. It deteriorates over time depending on the reasons. Deteriorations in vascular structures affect other organs over time and cause complications. Depending on the developments and technological advances in the field of health, vascular diseases can be treated. In cases where medical drug treatment and nanpharmacological treatment are insufficient, vascular surgery is applied. As in every surgical procedure, nursing care plays a key role in vascular surgery. Patients needs professional nursing care pre-, intraand postoperative surgery. Nurses have many roles and responsibilities such as following patients closely, giving proper positioning, exercising, supporting them with a multidisciplinary approach, providing proper nutrition, using elastic bandages and providing pain control, determining and applying the most appropriate care plan for the patient, and ensuring that the patient regains his/ her health in the early period. As a result; nurses, who come to the forefront with professional care services, have great duties and responsibilities in order for vascular surgery to be successful, for patients to recover in a short time, and to minimize complications and costs. Keywords: Surgical nursing, nursing care, vascular surgery

Biography

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Jean is completing her PhD at Swinburne University and completed her Master’s in Health Science and postgraduate in Gerontology at Victoria University in Australia. Jean is a registered nurse and has worked the last thirty years in residential aged care, originally as an enrolled nurse, progressing to a registered nurse, clinical coordinator and general managers roles. Jean is currently working for the Australian Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission as a registered clinician complaints officer. Jean is working on her first article.