Nursing care problems of a patient with hepatitis C under non-interferon therapy required long term hemodialysis — a review of the literature

Abstract

Caring and threating of a patient with hepatitis C and renal failure is associated with many difficult symptoms in the biological and mental dimensions. That is why, it requires holistic aspects take into consideration in all approach of life including somatic, mental, social and spiritual sphere. Modern therapeutic methods increase patient safety by minimalizing the risk of side effects being a result of therapy itself. Unfortunately, in Poland, we may still see a huge diversification of care provided by many medical specialists. In foreign literature nurses role is wider and very often they are responsible for the coordination of patient’s care to keep the continuity of service, proper quality, and patient safety. The manu­script presents the examples of nursing diagnoses, formulate in a traditional way, using the PES (Problem, Etiology, Symptom) model. Those diagnoses were for­mulated on the basis of patient’s symptoms in a spe­cific disease situation like hemodialysis, hepatitis C infection and non-interferon therapy.