NURSING CARE OF AN ELDERLY PERSON WITH HIP FRACTURE DUE TO FALL ACCORDING TO FAYE ABDELLAH AND 21 NURSING PROBLEM THEORY: A CASE REPORT

Year 2023, Volume: 2 Issue: 3, 9 - 20, 18.01.2024

Dilek Özçelik , Lale Büyükgönenç

Abstract

ABSTRACK
Background: It has been reported that 30-40% of individuals over 65 years of age fall every year worldwide and this rate increases with increasing age. It has been reported that the life expectancy of elderly individuals with hip fractures is shorter than the general population and 15-20% of them die within one year after the fracture.
Aim:In this study, it was aimed to evaluate the care needs of an elderly woman hospitalized in the orthopedic service due to an intertrochentic femur fracture caused by a fall according to Faye Abdellah's 21 Nursing Problems Theory and to plan appropriate interventions for these needs.
Method: The data of the study were collected between 16.04.2023-20.04.2023 in the orthopedic service of the state hospital in Nicosia, Cyprus. The planned study was explained to the patients and their relatives and their permission was obtained. While collecting the data, face-to-face interview technique was used to collect the data, and the planned and implemented care was examined with the case presentation technique. The data were evaluated with "Abdellah's 21 Nursing Problem Model" and "NANDA Nursing Diagnoses".
Result: The implementation of nursing care according to Faye Abdellah's 21 nursing problem model, which allows us to systematically take both the physical and emotional states of patients with physical and environmental changes, provides great convenience.
Conclusions: Nursing care requires a humanistic approach. The application of nursing care according to Faye Abdellah's 21 nursing problem model, which allows us to undertake all the effects of physical (pain, immobilization, surgical procedure, infection, etc.) and emotional (feeling of loneliness, social isolation, etc.) and the situations that patients experience with physical and environmental changes. Providing it in a very systematic way provides great convenience.
Keywords: Elderly, Femur fracture, Nursing Care, Nursing Theory

Keywords

Eldery,, Femur Fracture, Nursing Care, Nursing Theory

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