The combination of general nursing with special nursing

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The combination of general nursing with special nursing

Special nursing should be given to the patient at the stage of recovery according to the patient ' s condition in special cases besides the routine nursing. For instance, the key link of preventing the complications such as bed sore should be seized in the patients with hemiplegia, paraplegia and prolonged bed rest. For these patients, nursing I urination, defecation and affected limbs should be even more careful. The methods such as acupuncture, massage, ear acupuncture and hot medicated compress may be adopted in nursing to keep smooth defecation. The affected limbs should keep locally warm and often applied with safflower oil and massaged while injection should be avoided on the affected limbs as much as possible. As for the diseases of respiratory system, close attention should be paid to the state of asthma. Generally, critical symptoms easily occur in the early morning such as polypnea, profuse accumulation of sputum and saliva and difficulty in supination due to gasp. Therefore, the nursing staff should help the patient to expectorate the sticky sputum by turning him over, patting his back and wiping his chest, and with finger-press method and acupuncture in time. Mental recreation and work nursing should be simultaneously arranged besides the routine nursing for the patients with mental defect.