Research the Orem Self-care Theory on the Aged Patients with Acute Myocardial Infarction

Purpose In order to help the aged acute myocardial infarction (AMI) patients to take an active part in disease assessment, monitoring, treatment and improve the compliance, the AMI patients can relieve their somatic symptoms effectively, and at meanwhile, the incidence of complications can also be reduced. Method Two groups of patients were treated by routine treatment. Basing on the holistic nursing, the experimental group were adopted self-care theory to estimate the self-care ability of patients and their relatives. Patients and their relatives jointly participate in nursing activity by using different systems of care and health education. The control group were adopted the sequent nursing procedure to implement the holistic nursing. Results After leaving the hospital, the self-care ability of the experimental group was significantly higher than that of control group. The experimental group relieved their somatic symptoms effectively, and also reduce complications. Conclusion Orem self-care theory was applied in the treatment of aged acute myocardial infarction (AMI) patients, the patients take active part in treatment and nursing instead of passive treatment, the patients' own value can be reflect fully, and better results were also achieved.