ACUTE CARE

Chronic disease or severe disease which requires medical assistance is referred as acute care. Acute care is provided for both in-patient care and out-patient care. When there is no immediate curing of medical problems, acute care is administered. Acute care is a type of caring helps to improve health quality of an ailment by restoration process. Individuals who can withstand normal medical therapy for speech, physical and occupational illnesses, more than three hours are classified as acute care unit.

 Critical caring hospitals can provide this sort of services. Patients need this treatment only when it is curable at his/her home or at a hospital. Critical care treatments including complex surgeries, are available right from the birth of a baby to an adult inpatient. For outpatients, services like medical emergency preparedness, routine check up and follow up consultation after surgery are provided.

 Assessing need for acute care

The following steps are to be considered in acute care assessment.

• Checking symptoms or emergency signs
• Assessing acute illness symptoms by performing laboratory tests
• Classifying acute illness based on the severity
• Screening treatment procedures according to classification
• Sought advice or counseling
• Preventing with active treatment like surgery
• Follow up checkups for illness

 Factors affecting acute care nursing

Some individuals who are under medication to overcome the sufferings in their past medical history are at the verge of higher risk. Some medical practitioners will not support when the risk complexity is very high.

Acute care nursing unit benefits

Acute caring hospitals provide extensive caring for patients. Care providers have specialized degrees and nursing practices. Benefits of acute care nursing are:

• Ethical support
• Monitoring of respiratory system and cardiac system
• Supplying nutrition
• Telemetry service
• Recovery after surgery
• State of the medical art
• Blood transfusions
• Antibiotic therapy
• Intra venous therapy