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Literatūriškai aprašomi pacientų poreikiai, depresijos simptomatika, etiologija, epidemiologija, diagnostika, gydymas, depresija sergančių pacientų slauga pagal gyvybines veiklas, nustatomos slaugytojų reakcijos ir patirtys.
Description:
Relevance of the work. The subject of depression is currently very important in society.
Depression is much more than an emotional state, it influences all health of an individual – the way
of thinking, perception, physical condition (Lowen, 2014). All activities of a nurse are very
important, because this practice covers a lot of principles of modern nursing principles: assessment
of patient’s vital functions, assistance in their realization, the individualization of nursing process in
accordance to needs and expectations of a particular patient, attention to social and especially
psychological problems, training of a patient, stimulation of self-care, health education and desire to
preserve it (Šakalytė, 2017).
Purpose of the work. To reveal the modern attitude of mental health nurses to the care of
patients with depression.
Research tasks:
1. Identifying of nursing needs of depressed patients.
2. Describing nursing of depressed patients according to their vital functions.
3. Compare the expierience and reactions of mental health nurses in hospitals X and Y
based on their responses and experience in nursing depressed patients.
Empirical research methodology. Theoretical justification and analysis of the subject.
Various methods, such as analysis of scientific literature, questionnaire, analysis of research data,
were used in work process.
Results 96 mental health nurses participated in the survey: 54 nurses in Hospital X and 42
nurses in Hospital Y. Comparing experience and reactions carried out between individual hospitals,
it was found that the needs of patients with depression are important for all who participated in the
survey.
Conclusions Nursing needs of patients with depression: physiological (breathing, eating,
defecation), psychological (empathy, hearing, communication, care), social (assumption of
responsibilities, understanding of the role of the patient). Nurses care for patients individually,
according to vital activities. Maintaining a safe environment, communicating, breathing,
encouraging movement, working and playing, urinating and emptying, maintaining hygiene,
understanding your sexuality, maintaining normal body temperature, sleeping, and avoiding suicide
risks are important. Comparing the experience and reactions of mental health nurses in X and Y
hospitals, when they are not able to establish contact with depressed patients, hospital nurses in X
usually feel hopeless, and the most frequent reaction of mental health nurses in hospital Y is
frustration.