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help partners in taking care of their newborn baby and willing to take household chores to
help their partners, all are willing to give their child the best education and are aware of their
responsibilities.
Based from the findings and conclusions drawn, the following are the recommendations:
a regular seminar for future parents should be organized at local health centers so as to update
and educate them on family planning, establish parent counseling centers in every municipality,
obtain continuous education in pregnancy, newborn care, newlywed couples, live-in partners
should be forced to attend seminars on said topics, similar studies should be conducted on lived
experiences of teenage father particularly their deeper experiences in a wider perspective.

HEALTH CARE PROGRAM FOR HEMODIALYSIS PATIENTS
RAUSEL IRIS D. LIBUNAO

The study discovered the needs and concerns of hemodialysis patients and nurses in
terms of physical, emotional, social, spiritual and economic aspects, seriousness of the problems
encountered by the staff nurses in providing care to hemodialysis patients and the problems and
the level of seriousness encountered by the patients in the nursing care provided by the staff
nurses. The study considered as well the attributes of the staff nurses in terms of age, sex, civil
status, highest educational attainment, years of services in dialysis department and their training
relative to hemodialysis. It also showed the profile of hemodialysis patients in terms of age, sex,
civil status, religion, highest educational attainment, monthly family income, number of years
kidney disease has been diagnosed, year dialysis started and frequency of dialysis treatment per
week.
The study was conducted in Hemotek Hemotek Urdaneta, Urdaneta Sacred Heart
Hospital and Luzon Medical Center form September-October 2013. Thirty (30) staff nurse and
thirty (30) hemodialysis patients served as the respondents form who the data were gathered.
The descriptive type of research was employed using the questionnaire as the main
data gathering tool. Statistical treatment like frequency, percentage, weighted mean, and
Pearson product-Moment Coefficient of Correlation were utilized in treating the data gathered.
The findings of the study revealed that most of hemodialysis patients are 51 years old
and above, majority are males who are married, commonly cathlolic, mostly college graduate
with monthly family income below 10,000 and 11,000-20,000. Most of them suffer from kidney
disease for 2-4 years and they have their treatment twice a week.
There’s a moderately serious problem encountered by hemodialsysis patients along
with physical aspect, slightly serious problem encountered along with emotional, social and
mental aspect; serious problems in spiritual and economic aspect.
As encountered by hemodialysis patients there were no problems to the care rendered
by the hemodialysis staff nurses. The key to a positive and good working environment is through
a good communication and services rendered between health care provider and patients.

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