NURSING CARE OF PATIENTS WITH FIBROMYALGIA
Abstract
Through our daily activities in the health center we have detected a growing demand from patients that go to family medical clinics for treatment, information, nursing and social work, that have been weakened by fibromyalgia (FM). FM patients are confronted with society’s and health professional’s ignorance of this syndrome.
Faced with this problem, we the nurses at the Health Center, have decided to design an educational activity for healthcare professionals to update their knowledge about this syndrome of chronic pain and to promote among these patients further knowledge, skills and attitudes to understand and accept the disease, improve communication, as well as teaching healthy living and promoting associations.
We must act on them individually with a personalized assessment and collectively, with relaxation workshops, physical activity, self-esteem, healthy posture and psychological intervention.
The methodology we use is both theoretical expositions as well as interrogative method and group dynamics.
We hope to present the different interventions for the management of FM, especially those with strong evidence of effectiveness.
And from now on, to work with these patients, we will have a standardized care plan for patients with FM.
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