Question

Explain the rationale for providing options and teaching coping skills to residents of nursing homes. For this question, imagine that you are the director of a nursing home addressing your staff—those who need this information and perspective for responding most effectively to their patients.

Answer 1

Rationale for providing Options And Teaching Coping Skills to residents of Nursing Homes are-

• It will help the Nurse for the better care of their patients.
• Helps in creation of better Environment for the Communication between the Staff, Patient and their family members as well.
• Stores Health Status/Data of Patient in well-organized Format and in Secured Files/Format.
• A way For patients Better Adherence to treatment and Medications.
• Helps the Staff to learn Handling of Advanced devices/Equipments for betterment of their Patients.
• It also Enables Nurse to Learn Ways of Teaching/demonstrable Techniques for the patient using different devices Example- Patient is Using Metered Dose Inhaler to Control Asthma.
• Helps in Managing/Guiding the Nurses staff for distribution of work Amongst themselves.
• Also Nurses will be Able to Learn the Correct procedure for Each Technique to perform. Example- How to give I.V / I.M injection , How to Insert and I.V Cannula.
• Helps them Guide the Better Way of Writing the patient's Records.