Patient expectations and goals across long-term, acute, and home care

Nursing

Patient expectations and goals

When one is unwell, there are expectations that the individual has and these vary from one patient to another bearing the peculiarity of the sickness the person suffers from. However, there is the other level that determines the differing in the goals that the patients have, and that is the duration or type of care that the patient is put under, be it long-term care, acute care or home care. All these present varying goals and expectations due to the different needs that the patients have.

Long-term care patients

Long-term care is when one needs help of another on the emotional or physical needs over a prolonged period of time. This is often given to people with the patients who need the greatest medical care needs. Due to their health condition, the expectations and goals of these patients include having a highly trained medical practitioner, getting prompt assistance with the essential routines that they are no longer able to conduct on their own-like bathing, moving from one part to the other of the house, washing clothes. They also expect to have therapies that help them recover their normal health status and functions as well as expecting to be provided with equipment that can help them perform and be trained in using the same (National care Planning Council, 2013).

Home care patients

The patients in this section are mostly of old age or with psychological problems hence have to be permanently relocated from their homes to the foster homes or care homes where they are to live the rest of their lives if not then for a long time under the care of their caregivers. The expectations of the patients in such a facility is to have an emotional attachment with the caregivers since they will be here for a long time, have physical exercises and help in ding the same, good diet from the caregivers, help in carrying out physical routines that they are no longer able to do on their own as well as having regular health checks. This is different from the previous two since these people are not in the home care program due to any illnesses or infections or injury but due to their age which is a biological process that people go through.