Abstract:

Health as defined by each person integrates all the human dimensions physical, intellectual, emotional, socio cultural, spiritual and environmental aspects of the whole person. The nurse giving holistic nursing care must be equally considered all these inter- related and interdependent dimensions of the whole person. Rehabilitation is the process of achieving maximum restoration of physical, psychological and social function must be carefully planned and executed. It should be goal directed and based on a thorough assessment of the patient’s medical, functional and psychosocial status. A pre- experimental research design with one group pretest and posttest is adopted for the study. The sample size for the study comprises of 120 patients admitted in ortho ward with the diagnosis of fracture femur and Convenient Sampling Technique used in this study. The result shows that 1^st post-test and 4^th post test scores of level of orthopedic rehabilitative nursing care of patients with lower limb fractures difference in mean percentage found that for social wellbeing was 41%, spiritual wellbeing was 56%, mental wellbeing was 48% and activities of daily living was 37%. The present study was conducted to assess the effectiveness of orthopaedic rehabilitative nursing care on wellbeing of patients with lower limb fractures. The study concluded that orthopaedic rehabilitative nursing care is highly effective and wellbeing of patients is independence, physically and socially, mentally, spiritually allowing them to return to their normal place of living where ever possible.

Keywords: Orthopaedic rehabilitative nursing care, lower limb fractures, Social, Mental, Spiritual wellbeing, Activities of daily living.

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