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a) Hospitalized patients go through both social and psychological changes as follows:
1. Social changes:
- Patient is removed from his normal routine life
- patient can't do his daily activities.
- Patient losses much of his privacy
2. Psychological changes:
- Invasion of patient's privacy.
- He losses independency and individualism
- He losses interest in social contact.
In response to these changes patient becomes under stress and manifest the following
reactions:
- Fear and irritability
- Unhappiness & loss of interest in the outside world
- Increased need for social reassurance from family relatives and professional
personnel.


b) My role is to protect the patient from going through these manifestations by good
communication with him, understanding his feelings and worries and trying to
reassure him. I should provide him with information about his procedure so he won't
be worried, make him comfortable by noticing what irritates him and remove it and
encourage his family members and health care staff to provide him with social and
emotional support.