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NURSING CARE MANAGEMENT AND RESPONSIBILITY

NURSING CARE MANAGEMENT AND RESPONSIBILITIES: IMPROVING PATIENT COMPLIANCE WITH TREATMENT ORDERS THROUGH HEALTH EDUCATION AND EXTENDING CARE TO ALL PATIENTS

The contemporary period is one in which diseases once thought conquered in this country are making strong reappearances, and during which both new diseases and diseases not previously common in this country are becoming significant concerns of health care professionals. The identification and successful treatment of the individuals afflicted by these diseases are important to both the afflicted persons, whose health is directly at risk, and to the broader society, whose health is indirectly at risk.

One factor that inhibits the successful treatment of afflicted individuals is the failure of those individuals to comply with their treatment regimens (Wichowski & Kubsch, 1995, pp. 66-68). A factor contributing to non-compliance is a lack of necessary education about their diseases on the part of afflicted persons. Health education efforts, in turn, frequently suffer because health care professionals are reluctant to extend care to all patients. The presence of deadly and contagious diseases in the contemporary period causes some health care professionals to be reluctant to extend care to persons afflicted with such diseases. The social stigma associated with some diseases is another factor that at times inhibits the delivery of care to those who need it most. Prejudice against immigrant from some parts of the world, as well as prejudice directed toward some domestic population sub-cultures also result in a failure by some health care professionals to deliver the necessary level of care.

A basic philosophy of nursing accepted by this researcher is that care should be extended to all patients on the basis of patient need, as opposed to basing the delivery of care as a function of the personal preferences of the care giver. Consistent with this philosophy, four professi...

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