In: Nursing
TOPIC- EPILEPSY
focus on the patient population care needs and how we can meet their needs and support them utilizing the interdisciplinary teams while taking into account access to care and social determinants of health.
EPILEPSY is the neurological disorder that affect the central nervous system , in which the working of brain get disrupted and personal behaves abnormaaly and it causing the seizures and the patient lost the awarness sometime.
The epilepsy patient population needs care as sometime they are not much educated about this disorder and they do not know how to manage and care the patient . This is a neural disorder, if not taking care properly so the patient would try to do self harm . The patients need more care as compare to any other disorder .
The patient with epilepsy might have other conditions along with normal issues so they have additional care needs . Seizers are varying from person to person , some may have very frequent and some have infrequent or unwitnessed seizures that may not be noticed by someone eklse . So , such hidden conditions need care more .
We can meet their needs as they want extreme care , attension , trust , love , affection to get cured from this disorder in some better ways . mWe should adopt the multi tasking caring nature , we have to realize that they are just normal as the other people and they cando whatever they want . We have to build a trust to the patient as they should start sharing their things with us , by all these ways we can meet up their needs and also help them to make them able to handle their situation .
The interdisciplinary team work is very effective and depends on accurate policies and taking care of the patient more closly and all the traditional professional barriers has been reduced in taking care of the patient . The social determinants of the health are education and literacy about epilepsy , social and physical atmosphere that favours the improvement in that condition , social status and income is also a factor as the patient need more care and it way stay as it takes the time so , the medication and care needs more money and these factors also need to be taken care to eetup the patient's need.