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Abstract
This work was designed to study nursing care needs of long stay patients in some general hospitals in Alexandria, the purposes of the study were; to investigate the extent to which acute general hospital beds are used by long-stay patients; to assess their; (a) personal and socioeconomic status; (b) medical condition and (c) nursing care needs. Five Keneral hospitals were chosen namely the Main University hospital,El-Goumhorrya hospital, Gamal-Abdel-Nasser hospital; Karmouz hospital and El-Moussat hospital covering dif ferent types of governmental hospitals. LTPs were defined as cases hospitalized for twenty-one days or more. A sample size of 195 long-term patients were studied through surveying general medicine, general surgery and some specialities in the five hospitals for a period of one month in each hospital. An assessment sheet of nur sing care needs for long-stay patients was constructed and vali dated. The study data covered sociodemographic data (patient’s’ name, age, sex, marital status, education, area of residence, num ber of rooms, family size, living a~rangements and total family income), administrative data (hospital name, clinical speciality, patients’ hospital number, date of admission, date of discharge, length of stay and source of financing hospital care), medical data (principal diagnosis and associated conditions, number of previous hospitalization due to same condition in the same or other hospital, diagnostic and therapeutic services), nursing kardex , researcher as well as physician judgement regarding appropriateness of hospital stay. These data were collected through patient’s record,intervierlng patients, attending nurses and attending physicians concerned, ” using a well designed form. The results showed that: 1- In general, long-term patients represent 5.3 of total cases discharged from the study hospitals and consumed 30.2 of the total days of care frovided at these hospitals. 2- Demographic and socioeconomic characteristics :LTPs had an average age of 46.7 years, males constituted 71.3 of the sample cases, marrihood was the commonest (62), more than two-fifths (45.6) were illiterate or only read and write, avera~e per capita income was 33.4 L.E./rnonth, only 6.2 either shared or paid the full cost of hospital care, and the majority lived with spouse and/or children (64.1).