How vital is care giving to your patient?
*Care giving is important to a patient because it somehow helps the patient in its fast recovery. It also helps the patient cope up with the challenges and problems brought about by his/her ailment during and after treatment.
Challenges is part of the health care of the patient. As part of the health care of the patient, it ensures that all the things to be done and medicines to be administered to the patient are in order and done with utmost care and attention.
Since there is close contact between the patient and the caregiver, care giving provides many advantages and some of them are:
1. It helps the patient live a normal life because caregivers help the patient decide on what activities to take.
2. It encourages the patient to share his feelings and support his/her efforts to share. In moments where the patient and caregiver are alone, sometimes the patient opens up and shares his/her feelings to the caregiver. In this instance, the caregiver should listen and also share how she/he feels for the patient and this somehow can help relief the pain of the patient.
3. It lets him/her decide what to do. Once bond is established, it's how easy for the patient to decide what to to for himself/herself.
4.It helps the patient to communicate with others. The closeness between the patient and the caregiver is a step where the patient can communicate with other people.
