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PHILOSOPHY OF PATIENT CARE
WE EXIST TO PROVIDE CARE WHEN, WHERE AND HOW PEOPLE NEED AND DESIRE IT.
ALL patient care services in this facility are directed toward optimal quality
patient care. The working philosophy acknowledges that:
a) patients can be helped to find satisfaction in daily living despite
emotional, intellectual and physical limitations;
b) every patient has some rehabilitation potential, however small, dependent
upon his degree of disability;
c) geriatric patients face the inward look of aging, separation from family
and loss of contemporaries turning their daily living expectations toward
those at hand-the nursing service staff;
d) family relationships of long-term patients often undergo stress
and disruption;
e) patients should be allowed to express hostile and depressed behaviour
without fear of rejection by personnel;
f) hearing ,sight and taste diminish with age causing patients to react
subjectively when asked about their condition;
g) patients should be encouraged to exercise the greatest degree of
independence possible; and
h) patients whose condition is regressive or who are facing death should be
provided understanding and attendance beyond their physical care.