Home Nursing Techniques

So our TLE teacher gave us another task to make a blog entry so here it is:

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 am a good home nurse, the home nursing techniques that I need to know is making an occupied or unoccupied bed and bathing a patient. Both of those are very essential on the comfort and speed up recovery of the patient. When the bad is comfy and nice, the patient will be able to relax which makes the person recover nicely. Second, when the person will be given a bath everyday, the patient will have proper hygiene so that the patient will not feel dirty or filthy while he is still sick.

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

-The home nurse should monitor the vital signs of the patient because vital signs are very important to know what sickness the person is experiencing. 

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

- You take the body temperature using a clinical thermometer in a person's mouth, armpits, or rectum. The pulse rate will be known through counting your pulse per minute on your temple, middle of the arms, or your chest part. The respiratory rate may be discovered through how many breaths a person have per minute (how many times the chest rises). And lastly, you can get the blood pressure of the patient using a sphymomanometer. It is a device to know the blood pressure of a person.

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

- Some practices that a home nurse should follow is to be approachable, understanding, and cheerful at all times. A home nurse should also know some techniques like preparing a bed and bathing a patient.

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

-Signs are what a doctor sees, while symptoms are what a person experiences.

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

-If I am a doctor, my basis in giving the diagnosis for my patient is from what my patient say. The doctor doesn't experience what the patient experiences and that is the only basis to give the diagnosis. So it is better if the patient always tell the truth.