Blog Entry No. 7 (Caregiving)

Caregiving is vital to your patient because it can help your patient extend its life or cure his/her sickness. Everybody needs care from a person where in you comfort/care someone who is in much needed. Giving care for others is one thing that is important in our life, making them feel that they are loved/cared by someone. All of us should care for each other as we loved one another. We are concern for others' feeling or emotion that's why we care.

Blog Entry No. 6 (Bandaging & Dressing and Signs & Symptoms of Illnesses & Diseases)

Questions & Answers

1. What is the RICE Formula?
A: Rest. Ice. Compression. Elevation.

2. When will you put bandage to an affected area?

A: When the affected area is susceptible to infection.

3. What is the most prevalent disease where in a person is experiencing flu and red rashes for several days?

A: Dengue

4. What will be the first thing to do when a person suddenly faints?

A: Held the person in an upright sitting position and provide a breathable space.

5. What will be the position disease of a person who always experience severe headache and fainting?

A: Migraine

Making the Bed & Bathing the Patient

Making a Bed

1. Why do we need to know how to make an unoccupied and occupied bed?

-Learning the proper procedure for making a bed helps to ensure the patients comfort and sense of well being. The bed is an important part of the patient's home environment. Some patient's will spend most of the day in bed.

 

2. How does making a bed help in the fast recovery of our patient?

-To provide, rest, comfort and safety to the patient. To help him have a good relaxed sleep.

3. As a good home nurse, how will you be able to render your services to your patient through bed making?

-Having skills like clinical skills, critical thinking skills, supervisory skills and organization skills. These skills will help you render your services to your patient.

Bathing the Patient
 

1. Why do you need to give a bath to the patient?

-So that the patient will be clean and feel fresh. Also the dirt all over his body will be washed away. Some elderly people are given bed baths because they are unable to complete this task on their own.

2. What are the materials needed for bed bath or sponge bath?

-Warm water, a basin, towel & soap.

 

3. What’s the importance of using a urinal or bedpan?

-A patient who is unable to get up to the bathroom for the purpose of urination or of defecation will use a bedpan or urinal. A bedpan is a device for receiving feces or urine from either male or female patients confined to bed and a urinal is a device for collecting urine from male patients. Using a bedpan or urinal is a private and personal procedure and it is important to make the environment as private as possible.

Reference:

(http://www.sharecare.com/question/why-need-use-bedpan-urinal) 

4. What do you mean by back rub?

 -Massage is the manipulating of superficial and deeper layers of muscle and connective tissue using various techniques, to enhance function, aid in the healing process, decrease muscle reflex activity, inhibit motor-neuron excitability, promote relaxation and well-being, and as a recreational activity.

Reference:

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massage)

 

5. How do you differentiate cold compress from hot compress?

-Cold compress is dipped into cold water while hot compress is dipped into warm water. It is both applied into a body part especially when you have fever.

Home Nursing Techniques; Signs & Symptoms of Illnesses & Diseases

1.  If you are a good home nurse, what are the various home nursing techniques that you need to apply that will make the patient feel comfortable and speed up the recovery?

 -Help the patient and understand his/her recovery. Always put a smile on his/her face so that the patient will feel better, and also the patient's medications should be taken daily.

2.  Why should the home nurse monitor the vital signs of the patient?

 -So that the home nurse will know what are the affect on the patients sickness, and will be reported immediately to the doctor.

3.  How do you take the body temperature, pulse rate, respiratory rate and blood pressure of the patient?

 -Taking the body temperature should be carefully done in the thermometer and make sure that the tip of the thermometer shouldn't been touched. The pulse rate, this is taken by holding the wrist of the patient and count on how many seconds is the beating of the patient's heart. Respiratory rate, this is taken in a relax manner, start the timer then count how many times you breath and stop at the one minute mark. Taking your blood pressure is done by using a sphygmomanometer and a stethoscope. 

4.  What are some practices that the home nurse must follow that will promote comfort to the patient?

 -Making the patient cool & clean, and always asking what the patient feels everyday.

5.  How will you differentiate signs from symptoms of illnesses and diseases?

 -Signs from symptoms are just signs makes you feel ill while diseases are signs that your body needs a recovery.

6.  If you are the doctor, what will be your basis in giving the diagnosis for your patient?

 -For me, my basis should depend on the patient's sickness. And I'll make them a diagnosis where in they'll be cured.

Administering of Medicines to the Patient

1. What significant insights have you learned from the topic?

    I have learned that Administering of Medicines to the Patient should be carefully done. You must have the right amount of medicine (if liquid) that has been taken for the patient. The medicine should be said from the doctor, that the patient should take. The home nurse should take care of the patient, because the patient can't help his/herself in taking the medicine. Before taking the medicine make sure that the medicine is clean and the patient should take enough.

     When the doctor prescribes medication you must be very careful and fully understand how to take the drugs and become knowledgeable about the full benefits and the side-effects of improper use. Every time you put something into your body, food, fluids, drugs, etc, via ingestion or other alternative routes, for example, injections, it has to be metabolize and broken down by the body, absorbed, assimilated and the final waste products produced are eventually cleared and eliminated via the liver or kidney.



2. How does proper administering of medicines help our patients in their recovery?

    It will help them to be better if they will take it everyday. Their health will improve if there is proper care for the patient and proper on taking their medicines daily. The home nurse must not forget to let the patient take its medicine. Taking their medicines daily will improve their health, and it can also extend their life. Our life is important, that's why care for it and always remember in taking your medicines daily.
   
    The administration of medication is often a chief responsibility of the home nurse. The practice of administering medication involves providing the patient with a substance prescribed and intended for the diagnosis, treatment, or prevention of a medical illness or condition. It will help the patient cure its sickness and live more.
   

Introduction to Home Nursing

Health care is important to an individual who is sick. Being physically ill makes one become emotional. He may need proper care from a nurse, a doctor or an expert, but care from his loved ones can make him recover faster. Because a sick person is not on his state of mind, but he may feel more comfortable if his own family will give him the best health care.

The family is the basic unit of society, and it would mean that they play an important role. It is important that a family must have health care. Each member in the family will be affected if there is a sick member. To have a healthy family they must provide each member the best health care so that they can perform their roles and daily activities. A healthy family is a functional and happy family.

Imagine a healthy community and another unhealthy community. Of course, it is better to see a healthy community, because people are functional. They can mingle with other people and carry out their responsibilities. If a community have proper health care, it could mean that they had a good governance by the local center or hospital. When each of the family in the community receives proper health care they will have a progressive community and will provide support to the other community, in effect.

Recycled Craft Project

Well, our project was a bit effortless because it was too easy to make & we were in a hurry making it. But still it turned out nice, I think so. The materials we used were recycled crafts (some art materials, plastic container, candle & ribbons) at first we were full of bright ideas on making the project, then we talked about it and made a Candle Lamp. Our lamp was not that perfect, still it was worth making it. Doing this was fun and we learned more about it, we hope for a good grade for this. Accomplishing this project was enough for me, everybody helped and participated. This lamp can also help us to see and to brighten up your room, it can also be decorated for your room/anywhere else. That's all for now