Home Nursing Techniques

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?

As a good home nurse, I must know and learn how to make an unoccupied and occupied bed, how to take vital signs and how to bathe the patient. The techniques will my patient feel more comfortable since these things don't exert much effort for the patient to move and if the patient will feel more comfortable, then it will help in the fast recovery.

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

A home nurse should monitor the vital signs of the patient to know if patient is sick and to how sick the patient is. Taking the vital signs is important because this will help a home nurse determine if the patient needs to be rushed in the hospital and taking the vital signs can help determine if there are any 'abnormalities' in the patient.

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

In getting the temperature, a thermometer is used. In taking the pulse rate and blood pressure, a sphygmomanometer and a stethoscope is used.

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

A home nurse should practice how to make an occupied and unoccupied bed since proper preparations are really important since I learned that if the sheets have some fold, it can irritate the patient. A home nurse should also practice how to bathe a patient.

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

A sign is observable and measurable. One can easily see and know if someone is sick since there will be something visible to be noted that there's something wrong with a person. A symptom is not observable but it can only be felt by the person who experiences them.

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

If there will be signs of some illness that my patient possesses, I will try to moderate my patient and ask him about what things he/ she is experiencing (symptoms). After some time, if this continues, then I should give a proper diagnosis to my patient after a proper examination of the illness my patient possesses.