Biography
Biography: Abdia Naidoo
Abstract
The individual,the family and the community all forms a part of a complete and integrated system. As a community health nurse and practioner I observed on a daily basis how patients were treated by health practioners only for a disease or ailment without seeing the person in a holistic way or as a whole person. Patients were often misdiagnosed or seemingly not satisfied when they were seen as just another patient with an ailment and not as an individual who had muliple facets to their lives besides being a patient.
I started changing my own attitude towards patients when treating my patients and clients as a whole person. I developed a programme called the Whole Person Wellness Model and used this model to change certain behavious and attitudes when treating the individual patients.
The aim of this presentation/workshop is to create more awareness for health nurse pratitioners and health service providers to treat patients with a more authentic wholistic view and approach and treat persons with a disease or ailment with an holistic and wholesome approach in order to effect a more complete health and wellbeing out come.