Skills Flashcards
Types of Family-Nurse Contact
Telephone/Cellphone Contact. Video call/messenger contact. Clinic visit/opd consultation. Home visit
A patient seeks consultation of his/her illness in a nearby health facility with a doctor or group of doctors or specialists.
Clinic Visit
Is done by a nurse or a health front liner before admission if needed.
pre-clinic assessment/lecture
Standard procedures done during clinic visit
Registration/admission. Waiting time. Triaging. Clinical evaluation. Laboratory and Diagnostic Examination. Referral System. Prescription/Dispensing. Health Education
It is 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
Can achieve the best results of the desired outcomes.
Planned Visit
It is a tool by which a nurse during her visit will perform a nursing procedure with ease & deftness , to save time & effort with the end view of rendering effective nursing care to clients.
Bag Technique
It is an essential and indispensable equipment of a Public Health Nurse/ CHN Nurse which she/he has to carry along during her home visits. It contains basic medications and articles which are necessary in giving nursing care.
Public Health Bag/CHN Bag
solutions in bottles, ointments, liniments
right side of the bag
plasters, elastic bandage, rolled gauze
left side of the bag
sterile gauze, sterile & clean gloves
front side of the bag
thermometers, sterile forceps & surgical scissors, bandage scissors, syringes& needles
Back side of the bag
cotton balls containers, medicine glass, kidney basin, tape measure, medicine dropper
middle
hand washing materials
top most
apron, paper receptacle, waste bag
pocket of the bag
