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

What is Bandaging?

• Bandaging is another home treatment a home nurse or a caregiver should administer to a patient. A bandage is available in various form such as roller bandage. Triangular, and elastic bandage(for minor wounds) Bandages are used for binding up wounds or other injuries and controlling bleeding in a particular area.

What are the Bandaging pattern?

• Simple Spiral - This is used when the part of the body to be bandaged is of uniform size like finger or forearm.
• Figure eight -  A roller bandage is applied starting below the wound and progressing up and encircling the limb in a figure of "Eight" pattern.
• Figure (8) eight spiral - This is a variation of figure eight which is used for a flexed joint like a knee or an elbow.
• Triangular bandage for hand injuries - Fold a square cloth to make a triangular bandage.
• Triangular bandage for chest and back injuries - Place the triangular bandage over the injury.

• Triangular bandage for upper limb injuries - Use a sling to support and protect the upper limb.

How to apply the bandage properly on the injury?

• Cover the wound with the dressing. The dressing should extend beyond the wound by about 1/2 inch so that it covers the wound completely and allows room to affix the dressing to uninjured skin.

•  Cut four strips of athletic tape and affix them to the dressing and skin on all four sides of the dressing. The purpose of the bandage is to help keep the dressing in place, and it shouldn't be too loose (able to move around) or too tight (impairing circulation).
• If there is a risk that the wound will be exposed to water, cover the bandage with waterproof material such as waterproof tape or plastic.

(http://www.ehow.com/how_5401_bandage-wound-during.html)

Where is the right place in doing the first aid?

• You can do the first aid in the clean environment so that it can't affect the wounds that the victim has.

Who should do the first aid?

• Anyone can do the first aid but you should have knowledge about first aiding. The first aider is the one who knows how to first aid.

Blog Entry No. 5 (Making the Bed & Bathing the Patient)

Making a Bed
1. Why do we need to know how to make an unoccupied and occupied bed?
*  So that the patient will be more comfortable.

2. How does making a bed help in the fast recovery of our patient?
*  Making a clean bed leads to the fast recovery of the patient because if dirty, it can affect the patient.
  
3. As a good home nurse, how will you be able to render your services to your patient through bed making?
*  So that the patient will stay at the bed and the home nurse could do many things like cleaning the room of the patient, and etc...

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

• To cleanse the patient.
• To refresh the patient.
• To relax the patient.
• To stimulate the circulation of blood in the body.
•  To serve as a form of exercise.
• To aid in the elimination of certain wastes in the body.

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

• 2 big towels.
• 2 small towels.
• Rubber sheet.
• A basin with warm water.
• A soap.
• Light blanket.

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

• A urinal is important if the patient is expected to remain bedridden for a long period of time.

4. What do you mean by back rub?

• A back rub is given to refresh the patient.

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

• Cold compress is the is an absorbent cloth is dipped into a cold water while Hot Compress, it is the application of heat to a small area with hot gauze or hot compress cloth.

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?

• Making an unoccupied bed.
• Making an occupied bed.
• Taking the patient's vital signs.
• Bathing the patient

2.  Why should the home nurse monitor the vital signs of the patient?
* So that the home nurse will know if the patient is still alive.  
3.  How do you take the body temperature, pulse rate, respiratory rate and blood pressure of the patient?
* Taking the body temperature of the patient if:

• The patient is unconscious.
• The patient is a child or an infant.
• The patient has an injury in the mouth.
• The patient having chill.
• The patient is hot.

4.  What are some practices that the home nurse must follow that will
           promote comfort to the patient?
*  Treat the patient very nice and give your best to make the patient more comfortable, and be responsible in everything that concerns about the patient and clean all the things of the patient especially the room of the patient for past recovery.

5.  How will you differentiate signs from symptoms of illnesses and
           diseases?
*  Symptoms and illness are the effects. Disease is the illness that you already have.

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

*  If i we're a doctor i will give a clear and understandable diagnosis.

Administering of Medicines to the Patient

1. What significant insights have you learned from the topic?  2. How does proper administering of medicines help our patients in their recovery?


 1.) Administering of medicine to the patient, it is the manner in which a medicine is administered that will determine to some extent whether or not the patient gains any clinical benefit, and whether they suffer any adverse effect from their medicines. It also talks about the condition of the patient, or it can affect the patient, or the patience improve his recovery because of this medicine.

2.) Proper administering of medicine really helps the patient in their recovery, because the recovery of the patient is based on how the medicine is properly administered to the patient by the home nurse. In some point the recovery is not only based on how the medicine is being administered it also based on the patient he/she needs to behave and obey the home nurse. Medicine is one of the most common thing was used for the patient that suffers from any diseases, and by proper administering of the medicine it can lead to fast recovery of the patient.

Proper administering of medicine to the patient is very important because that method is the only way yo lead the patient into fast recovery.