Research Critique: article "High-Tech" homecar

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This is a research critique on the article ‘High-Tech` homecare: overview of professional care in patients on home parenteral nutrition and implications for nursing care. The purpose of this article is to outlined in the preamble as captured on the first point on -Aim, as it were, the context of the article is on the quality, quantity and content of care given to home parenteral nutrition dependent patients by various professionals in the Netherlands. It therefore gives a background of what home parenteral nutrition entails, and how it should be conducted - methodology.
Further, it presents the bare facts of the experiences if nurses who administer home parenteral nutrition as well as those of the home teams and how barriers to effective homecare can be identified. Importantly also, the article gives the perspective of the patients as a way of interrogating the adequacies and inadequacies of home parenteral nutrition care by presenting their satisfaction or dissatisfaction thereof. In addition, the study, apart from bringing out the bottlenecks it also gives an indication of the way forward in respect to those impediments.
There are some implications of home parenteral nutrition HPN to the nursing practice as enumerated in the frame of reference of the article. Most immediately is that HPN has allowed patients get discharged from hospital this has a bearing on healthcare cost and the ultimate consequence of which is that it helps save the healthcare cost for the patient. The patient should be more comfortable receive the care from their home, so the new HPN patient gets a HPN nurse who makes regular visits to the patient as a standard procedure in the nursing fraternity. Another element of home care is that in preparing patient to be discharged, the ...