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?

 -The most important thing to we need to work on is our Attitude and Personality towards the patient. We should be loving and we should have more patience especially if the patient shouldn't be stressed or annoyed. We should also be alert and responsible when it comes to the patient's needs and wants to help the patient heal faster.

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

 -We should monitor it because they give us a quick and easy way to determine if one is well or sick.

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

 Body Temperature - Wash your hands then put the thermometer where designated. Wait for 3 minutes then remove from the area. Wipe the thermometer with dry cotton or tissue before reading. After reading, wipe it with cotton w/ antiseptic. 

Pulse Rate - Use your two fingers and not your thumb in taking the pulse.

Respiratory Rate - Let the patient sit down comfortably then wrap the BP cuff around the patient's arm and place the bell shaped end of the stethoscope on the inside of the elbow where the pulse can be felt.

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

 -The practice of being a loving, caring, happy and nice nurse.

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

 -Signs are the the physical findings you see when you examine a patient, while symptoms are what patients feel.

6.  If you are the doctor, what will be your basis in giving the diagnosis for your patient?
-My basis is that I would observe his/her signs and symptoms and use the medicines that is advisable for that certain illness or disease.

Administering of Medicines to the Patient

-What I learned is that there are many ways administering medicines to the patient. And there are a lot of wrong ways that we never knew that was wrong. So, with this lesson, it helped us students not to be ignorant and well-educated when it comes to these encounters.

-I also learned that proper administering of medicine to the patient is important because it helps the patient recover faster in a way that we shouldn't overdose the intake of medicine of the patients which might cause other problems with the patient.