Lesson 2 Flashcards
HOME VISIT , BAG TECHNIQUE, PUBLIC HEALTH NURSING
A family-nurse contact which allows the health worker to assess
the home and family situations in order to provide the
necessary nursing care and health related activities?
HOME VISIT
In performing home visits, it is essential to prepare a ___ of
visit to meet the needs of the client and achieve the best
results of desired outcomes
plan
What are the purposes of Home visit?
- Make use of the inter-referral system and to promote the
utilization of community services - Assess the living condition of the patient and his family and their
health practices in order to provide the appropriate health
teaching. - Give health teachings regarding the prevention and control of
diseases. - Give care to the sick, to a postpartum mother and her newborn with the
view teach a responsible family member to give the subsequent
care. - Establish close relationship between the health agencies and the
public for the promotion of health.
What are the principle of Home visit?
- Consider and give priority to the essential needs of the individual and his family.
- Use of all available information about the patient and his family through family records.
- must have a Purpose or objective.
- Involve the individual and family.
- Should be Flexible.
What are the guidelines of Home visit?
- NEEDS - physical needs psychological needs and educational needs of the
individual and family. - ACCEPTANCE - acceptance of the family for the services to be rendered, their
interest and the willingness to cooperate. - POLICY - policy of a specific agency and the emphasis given towards their health
programs. - ACCOUNT - account other health agencies and the number of health personnel
already involved in the care of a specific family. - EVALUATION - Careful evaluation of past services given to the family and how
the family avails of the nursing services. - ABILITY - ability of the patient and his family to recognize their own needs, their
knowledge of available resources and their ability to make use of their resources for
their benefits.
a tool by which the nurse, during her visit will enable her to perform a
nursing procedure with ease and deftness, to save time and effort with the
end view of rendering effective nursing care to clients?
Bag Technique
an essential and indispensable equipment of a public health nurse which
she has to carry along during her home visits.
▫ contains basic medication and articles which are necessary for giving care?
Public Health bag
“___is directed towards assisting
every citizen to realize his birth rights and
longevity.”
Public Health
Roles of the PUBLIC HEALTH NURSE: who is a health care provider, taking care of the sick
people at home or in the RHU?
Clinician
Roles of the PUBLIC HEALTH NURSE:who establishes multi-sectoral linkages by referral system?
Facilitator
Roles of the PUBLIC HEALTH NURSE:who monitors and supervises the performance of
midwives
Supervisor
Roles of the PUBLIC HEALTH NURSE:who speaks on behalf of the client
Advocator, who act on behalf of the client
Health Advocator
Roles of the PUBLIC HEALTH NURSE:who working with other health team member
Collaborator
___is a
systematic, scientific, dynamic, on-going
interpersonal process in which the nurses and
the clients are viewed as a system with each
affecting one and another and both being
affected by the factors within the behavior?
Community Health Nursing Process
The nursing process helps to identify the client’s health
care needs, determine priorities, establish goals and
expected outcomes of care establish and communicate a
client-centered plan of care, and provide ____ designed to meet client outcomes and goals?
nursing interventions
What are the characteristics of Community Health Nursing process?
- The process is deliberative (Weidenbach,
1964) - The process is adaptable (Lewis, 1988)
- The process is cyclical ( Henlay, 1986)
- Client-focused (Hooper, 1986)
The process is interactive (Yura and Walsh, 1973) - Need- oriented (Steps, 1976)
