Question:

How vital is care giving to your patient?

Answer:

Giving your patient care giving as a home nurse is vital specially in his time of ill, is very crucial and somehow very vital to his aid in recovery because in observing the patient and caring for the patient for his fast recovery, It is very crucial that in care giving you will or might assure your patient's recovery back to Health as soon as possible. And by that, that you should give care giving to the patient as an aid to his recovery.

1.)What are the types of bandaging patterns and and types of dressings?
Bandaging patterns:
-Simple spiral
-Figure eight
-Figure eight spiral
-Triangular bandage for hand injuries
-Triangular bandage for back and chest injuries
-Triangular bandage for limb injuries

Types of dressings:
-Adhesive dressing
    Basic types of dressing:
    -Prepared Sterile dressing
    -Plastic skin

2.)What are the things to use when Bandaging? When are those things supposed to be properly used?
Things to be used when bandaging:
-Adhesive plaster
-Stretched plaster
-Clear adhesive type
-Tubular gauze
-Elasticized bandage
-Roller bandage

Uses:
Adhesive plaster-used at the areas of the body which is often exposed to water.
Stretched plaster-used to cover large dressings for support
Clear adhesive type-used in the areas near where the skin is so  sensitive it readily react to plaster.
Tubular gauze- it is a seamless roll used in various sizes to fit different parts of the body.
Elasticized bandage- used in securing dressings in the head, thighs, shoulders and groin.
Roller bandage- it is a strip of cotton, crepe, flannel with 4 and a half to 5 and a half meters of length.


3.)When the patient goes to the doctor, what mneumonic letters he uses to ask the patient's Medical history?
OPPQRST
translation:

Objective, Palliative, Provocative, Quality, Radiating, Subjective and Timing.

which threrby the doctor may ask these following question:

-Complaint
-Sex and Age
-Pnset
-Pallative
-Provocative:
-Quality:
-Radiating:
-Severity:
-Timing:

4.) What is a bandage?
A bandage is a piece of material used to support a medical device such as a splint or dressing.

5.)What is a gauze?
-a light preforated fabrics thatin which the warp threadsare crossed or twisted.

Making the Bed & Bathing the patient

QUESTIONS:

Making a Bed

1. Why do we need to know how to make an unoccupied and occupied bed?
2. How does making a bed help in the fast recovery of our patient?
3. As a good home nurse, how will you be able to render your services to your patient through bed making?

 Bathing the Patient
1. Why do you need to give a bath to the patient?
2. What are the materials needed for bed bath or sponge bath?
3. What’s the importance of using a urinal or bedpan?
4. What do you mean by back rub?
5. How do you differentiate cold compress from hot compress?

 Answers:

BED MAKING
1. We need to know how to make an unoccupied bed because if we are a home nurse we need to know how to make one, because if we are attending a patient, we must know how to make an unoccupied bed for the patient, to get ready to rest and we need to know how to make an occupied bed, because if we are the home nurse attending to a patient, we must know how to change the patient's top and bottom sheets with the patient on the bed lying comfortably and we don't need to even let the patient stand, we just let the patient lie there and we change the sheets by letting the patient roll-over a little then we do the changing of sheets.

2. By changing the patient's sheets we give the patient a comfortable and a sanitary place of comfort, free of germs and maybe even his/her excretions, Thus, it might be one reason for the patient's fast recovery.

3.I can render my services in bed making by giving the patient a clean, controlled and comfortable bed to rest upon in.

BATHING THE PATIENT


1. To cleanse, relax, relieve and  give exercise to the patient.
2. Materials needed in bathing the patient:
-2 big towels
-2 small towels
-a basin with warm water
-a rubber mat
-soap
- light blanket
3. The purpose of a bedpan or a urinal is to let a bedridden patient excrete his/her body fluids while they are on the bed.
4.A back rub is one method of bathing a patient, with the use of alcohol and or lotion.
5.A cold compress is made out of ice and placed in the forehead to lower the patient's high fever temperature and to cool the patient off, while a hot compress relieves pain or congestion.

Home nursing techniques; Signs and symptoms of illnesses and diseases

Question:
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?

If I was a home nurse i would do the following in order for him/her tomake him/her feeling comfortable and for a fast recovery:

-set the parient's bed
-attend to the patient's every need(necessities) 
-give the patient his/her medicines at the right time
-remember to give the patient the right medicine for the right illness
-follow the given prescription of the doctor

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

We should monitor the patients vital signs because if the patient's vital signs change, the patient's confition will become worse, which MIGHT change the patient's condition from bad to worse or worse to a critical condition or it MIGHT be a result of a patient recovering.

3.)  How do you take the body temperature, pulse rate, respiratory rate and blood pressure of the patient?
 
We take the patient's body temperature using a thermometer; we take the pulse by putting two fingers(naming the pointer and the middle finger) on the wrist of the patient; We take the blood pressure by using a sphygmomanometer; we take the patient's respiratory rate by using a stethoscope. \

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

Home nursing by your siblings and other family members.

5.)  If you are the doctor, what will be your basis in giving the diagnosis for your patient?
 My basis on giving diagnosis for a patient:
-the patient's vital signs;
-the patient's current condition;
-his/her signs and symptoms and;
his/her medical history.

ADMINISTERING MEDICINE TO THE PATIENT

 Question: What significant insights have you learned form the topic?

I this topic, I learned the responsibility of being a home nurse was clear. that it meant giving the medicine the patient proper medicine at the right time to aid the patients recovery be faster. In that way the patient will recover, You, the home nurse have learned that the importance and  the responsibility of being the home nurse entrusted with the patients fast recovery and given that the doctor's instruction for the patient, you should follow.


Question: How does proper administering of help our patient in recovery?

Answer:

Proper health Administering helps a patient recover in a way that the medicine will help the patient's recover faster. Medicine administering is done by the doctor via prescription by which the home nurse should follow.

By that way,
via prescription given by the doctor(prescription by the way is part of administering medicine to the patient) the medicine which was prescribed by the doctor will help the patient recover.

My experience in our recycled craft:D

Our project was a picture frame made out of 2 illustration boards, popscicle sticks and cardboard.
In that particular craft i learned how to reuse, rduce and recycle. That is a good lesson because it helps a nearly dying world a hand so it can give another chance to be cclean and that craft can even be profitable IF we sell it a proper price.