People who have ailments, surgery, or any other reasons to be in a medical setting, all encounter medical professionals in their stay either brief or long. Many stories you hear from people after these situations die down, is the wonderful care they received from their nurses and one day I would like to be one of those nurses. The person that a family or individual is so grateful for getting them through that time in their life. In the medical field, especially nursing a natural part of the job requires creating an environment that improves the well-being and the health of patients. This is where psychology comes in, to help nurses understand what is going on with their patients due to different factors such as age, alternative situations,
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Age is important to nursing for reasons of how well their patient can recover and how the patient’s body will react to medications or the process of an illness. Patients may be easier to relate to when incorporating their age as a factor considered. Psychology shows that there are three conceptions of age: chronological, psychological, and social. Chronological age is the number of years that have elapsed since birth. This is basic in nursing due to age being a prominent demographic on charts and is utilized because of what health conditions nurses need to be aware of as age increases. A patient’s capacity to adjust as compared to other people is psychological age. This conception of age is important because it will show you how well the patient will work with its caretakers and how well the patient will handle news that could bring stress and sadness. Society has roles and expectations that are related to different age groups, this is social age. An example of social age is that in the United States most adolescence leave high school and transition into college. If someone waits or gets a job right out of high school than they are not following with their social age. As a nurse combining psychological age and social age when interacting with patients in adolescence or young adulthood could help put into perspective what lifestyle they lead by how they compare to peers, which could help you in diagnosis’ or with simple interaction with the
Age is important to nursing for reasons of how well their patient can recover and how the patient’s body will react to medications or the process of an illness. Patients may be easier to relate to when incorporating their age as a factor considered. Psychology shows that there are three conceptions of age: chronological, psychological, and social. Chronological age is the number of years that have elapsed since birth. This is basic in nursing due to age being a prominent demographic on charts and is utilized because of what health conditions nurses need to be aware of as age increases. A patient’s capacity to adjust as compared to other people is psychological age. This conception of age is important because it will show you how well the patient will work with its caretakers and how well the patient will handle news that could bring stress and sadness. Society has roles and expectations that are related to different age groups, this is social age. An example of social age is that in the United States most adolescence leave high school and transition into college. If someone waits or gets a job right out of high school than they are not following with their social age. As a nurse combining psychological age and social age when interacting with patients in adolescence or young adulthood could help put into perspective what lifestyle they lead by how they compare to peers, which could help you in diagnosis’ or with simple interaction with the