Systematic Nursing Interventions Combined with Continuity of Care in Patients with a Spinal Fracture Complicated with a Spinal Cord Injury and Its Effect on Recovery and Satisfaction.

OBJECTIVE

The aim of this study is to examine the application value of systematic nursing interventions combined with continuity of care in cases with a spinal fracture complicated with a spinal cord injury and its effect on recovery and satisfaction.

METHODS

We identified ninety cases with a spinal fracture complicated with a spinal cord injury who were admitted to local hospital from May 2019 to May 2021 as research subjects and assigned them into an experimental group (systematic nursing combined with continuity of care,  = 45) and a control group (conventional nursing,  = 45) according to their admission order. The level of life of all groups between intervention was evaluated with reference to the Generic Quality of Life Inventory-74 (GQOLI-74) Rating Scale. The Hospital Anxiety and Depression (HAD) scale was used to assess the emotional status of patients before and after intervention. The complication rates, nursing outcomes, nursing satisfaction, and rehabilitation outcomes of all cases were calculated.

RESULTS

The GQOLI-74 score of the experimental group was higher than that of another group ( < 0.05). Lower HAD scores of experimental group were observed than that of another group ( < 0.05). The experimental group obtained remarkably higher nursing effective rates and higher nursing satisfaction than another group ( < 0.05). Rehabilitation outcome of the experimental group outperformed that another group ( < 0.05).

CONCLUSION

The use of systematic nursing intervention combined with continuity of care for cases with spinal fracture complicated with a spinal cord injury can enhance the nursing effect, effectively relieve cases' psychological pressure, improve patients' level of life and nursing satisfaction, and contribute to the maintenance of a good nurse-patient relationship, which merits clinical promotion.