1. The combination of general nursing with special nursing
Special nursing should be given to the patient at the stage of recovery according to the patient's condition in special cases besides the routine nursing. For instance, the key link of preventing the complications such as bed sore should be seized in the patients with hemiplegia, paraplegia and prolonged bed rest. For these patients, nursing in urination, defecation and affected limbs should be even more careful. The methods such as acupuncture, massage, ear acupuncture and hot medicated compress may be adopted in nursing to keep smooth defecation. The affected limbs should keep locally warm and often applied with safflower oil and massaged while injection should be avoided on the affected limbs as much as possible.
As for the diseases of respiratory system, close attention should be paid to the state of asthma. Generally, critical symptoms easily occur in the early morning such as polypnea, profuse accumulation of sputum and saliva and difficulty in supination due to gasp. Therefore, the nursing staff should help the patient to expectorate the sticky sputum by turning him over, patting his back and wiping his chest, and with finger-press method and acupuncture in time. Mental recreation and work nursing should be simultaneously arranged besides the routine nursing for the patients with mental defect. Learn more about Chinese medicine, please read Definition of Constitution.
2. The integration of various nursing methods
Comprehensive nursing is mostly adopted in rehabilitation nursing due to the specific characteristics in the rehabilitation patients. For example, various nursing methods may be commonly adopted like diet nursing, psychological nursing, strengthening health with sports and functional training; the patients with aphasia and paralysis suffer physically and most of them have mental and emotional disturbances at the same time because of the lack of communication with the outside world due to prolonged bed rest. Learn more about Chinese medicine, please read Formation of Constitution.
Thus, the nursing staff should not only turn them over, bathe them, replace their underclothes with the new ones and do other such kinds of routine nursing regularly, but also cooperate with functional training and massage of the affected limbs as well as attach importance to psychological nursing. The comprehensive application of various rehabilitation techniques and methods can promote the rehabilitation process.
Self-nursing mainly includes careful prevention of exogenous pathogenic factors, cultivation of temperament, regulation of diet, physical training with sports, etc. It attaches importance to self nursing and recuperation, and benefits the rehabilitation of the diseased body. Learn more about Chinese medicine, please read Classification of Constitution.
Rehabilitation involves not only overcoming the patient's physical suffering, but also regulating the psychological state of the rehabilitation patient so as to make him return to society with good somatopsychic health as much as possible. Preserving both physique and mentality and attaching equal importance to somatic and psychic health are one of the creams of life cultivation and rehabilitation theories in TCM. Therefore, people who preserve health should pay attention to the unity of physique and mentality. Only in this way can good health be guaranteed and life prolonged. The injury of physique is mostly accompanied with emotional impairment in most rehabilitation indications; emotional impairment in most cases is accompanied by the injury of physique.
In other words, the injury of physique involves mentality while the impairment of mentality involves physique. Accordingly, the thought of attaching equal importance to physique and mentality also permeates in the whole rehabilitation practice. The treatment of physique as the main purpose is assisted by regulating mentality, while the regulation of mentality as main object is supplemented by treating physique. Attach equal importance to physique and mentality, and physique and mentality complement each other so as to effectively promote the patient's somatopsychic health. Learn more about Chinese medicine, please read Influence of Constitution.