Question

What supportive emotional measures can the nurse provide a hospitalized patient?

Answer 1

The various supportive emotional measures a nurse can provide a hospitalized patient include; helping the patient overcome pain in all possible ways such as; medication, acupuncture. The nurse should be able to understand and be sensitive the different approaches to the state of being diseased and the treatment. Overcoming the barriers of language and culture while communicating well with the patient and providing him or her with emotional ventilation. If required providing emotional support through drugs. Asking for the intervention of the family and friends for providing the; necessary emotional support.