Hepatic Arterial Chemoembolization Enhance Patient Satisfaction With Care

Sunday, 28 July 2019

Chiou-Yuan Chang, RN
Department of Nursing, Change Gung Medical Foundation, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Kaohsiung,Taiwan, Taiwan

Hepatic arterial chemoembolization enhance patient satisfaction with care

In clinical care that Hepatic cell carcinoma patients after Transcatheter arterial chemoembolization treatment It takes 8 hours to lie flat. This time, you need to pressurize the 2 kg sand bag at the puncture site to avoid major bleeding or hematoma. but patient often complain sand bags easy to fall, resulting in the need to hand on the sleep disturbance can not rest, and the impact pressure hemostatic function, patient safety at the center of the care provided, initiator of the project to improve of motivation.I hope to improve the project through this health care, improve patient safety and improve patient satisfaction.Clinical findings health education tool is not a perfect guide, pressure to stop bleeding was not in line with the needs of patients, nurses caring manner not consistent.The patient is unable to rest with Transcatheter arterial chemoembolization, and is more likely to have a major bleeding risk because the sand bag is not properly pressurized.in order to enhance the hepatic artery chemoembolization patient satisfaction with care and nursing staff to perform hepatic artery chemoembolization care accuracy.improve patient safety and improve patient satisfaction.organize hepatic arterial chemoembolization care consistent consensus would amend the hepatic artery chemoembolization guard teach according to the manual, making hepatic artery chemoembolization care and health education billboards remind card design innovation aids pressure to stop bleeding.Via after pushing the project hepatic artery chemoembolization patient care satisfaction increased from 69.1% to 96.8% , and continued application of safe medical care for patients in the clinical environment.Now the ward continues to push, for patients with Transcatheter arterial chemoembolization, not only can patients rest after treatment, but also improve the integrity of the sand bag pressurized, improve the quality of care can improve patient safety

Key words: Transcatheter arterial chemoembolization, pressurized sand bags aids ,satisfaction.