Nursing care of a patient with COPD

Nursing care goal

• Educate the patient about regular and long-term medication administration.
• Teach the sick person how to prevent the transmission of infection to others.
• To help the patient overcome his mental and physical difficulties.
• Give the patient enough information about the disease to avoid feelings of inferiority.
• By cooperating with the family, ease the patient's situation - reduced fulfillment of personal, work and family obligations.

Nursing care

• Compliance with hygienic-epidemiological rules - protection against droplet infection.
  • Instructions on behavior when interacting with other patients and nursing staff: cover your mouth when coughing, keep a distance when talking (turn away slightly), separate rooms for patients, prohibition of sharing the dining room, hand washing, use of protective gloves, mouthpieces, protective clothing ( empire), immediate disposal of used tools, compliance with disinfection and sterilization.
• Nutrition: energy-rich, biologically valuable - rich in proteins, Ca, Fe, (meat, milk), fruits and vegetables - vitamins and fiber , plenty of drinks, nutritious (diet #11), alcohol is absolutely forbidden!
• Care for regular undisturbed sleep and rest.
• After the acute phase subsides, we carry out rehabilitation - breathing and fitness exercises.
• We motivate him in an appropriate way to engage in treatment.
  • We support and encourage patients during long-term treatment.
  • We will arrange contact with the family.

First aid for deterioration

• we sit him down and calm him down,
• we will call the doctor immediately,
• apply a cold compress to the chest,
• we collect the blood in the emitting cup and cotton wool,
• we give the patient sips of a cold drink.

Rights and obligations of a patient with COPD

• is required to undergo treatment and subsequent hospitalization,
• the patient has a free movement regime, but patients with fever are prescribed bed rest,
• for patients, we try to maintain their self-sufficiency, if necessary, the nurse will provide assistance with self-care.

What to watch:

• physiological functions,
• airway patency,
• amount, nature of sputum,
• the presence of blood in the sputum,
• nutrition and hydration of the patient,
• general symptoms of the disease,
• weight of the patient,
• shortness of breath, fever and hemoptysis in (we report to the doctor).

Evaluation, prevention

• Respiratory rehabilitation,
• no alcohol.