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Admitting A Patient .: Prepared by Ayugi Winnyfred Patience Bsc. Midwifery Student

The document discusses the admission of patients to healthcare facilities, including defining admission, the types of admission (planned or emergency), and the requirements and procedure for admitting a patient, such as obtaining their personal information and vital signs to create a record and begin their care. Admitting patients properly is important to establish trust and address any anxiety they may have about their situation and treatment.

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Admitting A Patient .: Prepared by Ayugi Winnyfred Patience Bsc. Midwifery Student

The document discusses the admission of patients to healthcare facilities, including defining admission, the types of admission (planned or emergency), and the requirements and procedure for admitting a patient, such as obtaining their personal information and vital signs to create a record and begin their care. Admitting patients properly is important to establish trust and address any anxiety they may have about their situation and treatment.

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Admitting a patient

.
Prepared by
Ayugi Winnyfred Patience
Bsc. Midwifery student
Objectives
By the end of this lecture, you should be able to:
 Define admission of a patient.
Know the types of admission.
Identify the requirements for admission of a patien
t.
Know and carryout the procedure for admission
Theoretical notes:

• Patients are admitted to an inpatient healthcare facility


if their health condition requires continuous healthcare
for more than 24 hours.
• Admission is allowing and facilitating a patient to stay in
in the hospital unit or ward to observation, investigation
and treatment of diseases he or she is suffering from.
• The term “hospitalization” means admitting the patient
to an inpatient healthcare facility. Inpatient healthcare c
an be administered in various facilities such as hospitals
, sanatoriums, hospices or nursing care homes.
Cont
• Admission is always an experience to the patient which is full of anxiety and
uncertainties regardless of their age, nationality or educational background
and may include:
• Painful diagnostic or therapeutic procedures.
• Their family
• Their job/business loss
• Missing studies
• Terminal illness eg. Cancer, HIV.
• Loss of privacy.
• Hospital expenses..
• A positive therapeutic relationship between the patient and nurse should b
e maintained from admission and throughout patient's stay in the hospital t
o dispel patient's anxiety by being friendly, understanding, kind and helpful.
Forms of health care

• Outpatient care; General, specialized;


• Institutional care;
• Pharmaceutical service.
Types of patient admission
according to priority:
• Planned admission – the patient has been previously bo
oked for hospitalization, examination or surgery as decid
ed by the patient and physician and it is expected that th
e patient will remain in hospital for the required period.
• The hospitalization period starts after initial examination
s in the outpatient facility.
• Emergency admission – the patient is admitted without
referral from a doctor in the case of a life-threatening co
ndition.
• In this case the patient require urgent attention.
Requirements for patients'
admission.
• Patient's chart.
• Record book for patient's belongings.
• A pen.
• Admission book.
• Observation tray.
• Wheelchair or stretcher.
Procedure for patient admis
sion.
• Obtain patient's personal and sociodemographic data from the patient in order to
create a nurse patient relationship, allay anxiety, identification, legal purpose and
follow up.
• Take patient's height and weight and other vital observations to aid diagnosis and
treatment.
• Patient or N.O.K signs the admission document as a legal document for routine ca
re and treatment and the patient undertakes to abide by the conditions of admissi
on and hospital policies and a declaration that the information given is true and a
ccurate.
• Notify the ward of tje patient's arrival, preliminary diagnosis and name of the doct
or for the ward staff to prepare to receive the patient and proper management.
• Bed or room to be occupied by the patient must also be confirmed.
• Take a non-ambulant patient on a wheelchair or trolley to minimise energy expen
diture and worsening of condition.
• Help patients who have difficulty I walking with their luggage.
On arrival at the ward;
• The nurse should speak slowly and clearly.
• The case sheet is red carefully and the following par
ticulars are filled in the admission book.
Patient's full name.
Age.
Inpatient number/ hospital number.
Sex.
References.
• Nursing and midwifery procedure manual Uganda C
atholic Medical Bureau. 2nd edition 2015.
• Fundamentals of nursing, second edition,BT Basava
nthappa

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