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.