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    Community Health Nursing 1: Home Visits and Bag Technique

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    Home visits by community health nurses aim to promote family health. Advantages include assessing the home environment, identifying needs, and teaching family members. Disadvantages include costs and distractions. Home visits have three phases - pre-visit planning, the in-home visit where the nurse assesses needs and provides care and education, and post-visit documentation. Nurses carry a bag containing supplies for infection control, assessment, and care. The bag technique helps provide care safely while maintaining infection control.

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    Community Health Nursing 1: Home Visits and Bag Technique

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    Home visits by community health nurses aim to promote family health. Advantages include assessing the home environment, identifying needs, and teaching family members. Disadvantages include costs and distractions. Home visits have three phases - pre-visit planning, the in-home visit where the nurse assesses needs and provides care and education, and post-visit documentation. Nurses carry a bag containing supplies for infection control, assessment, and care. The bag technique helps provide care safely while maintaining infection control.

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    Home visits by community health nurses aim to promote family health. Advantages include assessing the home environment, identifying needs, and teaching family members. Disadvantages include costs and distractions. Home visits have three phases - pre-visit planning, the in-home visit where the nurse assesses needs and provides care and education, and post-visit documentation. Nurses carry a bag containing supplies for infection control, assessment, and care. The bag technique helps provide care safely while maintaining infection control.

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    Community Health Nursing 1: Home Visits and Bag Technique

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    Home visits by community health nurses aim to promote family health. Advantages include assessing the home environment, identifying needs, and teaching family members. Disadvantages include costs and distractions. Home visits have three phases - pre-visit planning, the in-home visit where the nurse assesses needs and provides care and education, and post-visit documentation. Nurses carry a bag containing supplies for infection control, assessment, and care. The bag technique helps provide care safely while maintaining infection control.

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    COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSING 1

    HOME VISITS AND BAG TECHNIQUE


    HOME VISIT- A PROFESSIONAL, PURPOSEFUL
    INTERACTION THAT TAKES PLACE IN THE
    FAMILY RESIDENCE.

    • -aimed at promoting , maintaining or restoring the


    health of the family and its members.
    • Advantages:
    • 1. assessment of home situation; family dynamics,
    environment affecting health, resources within the
    home
    • 2. seek out previously unidentified needs
    • 3.adapt interventions accdg to family resources
    • 4. promote family participation and focuses on the
    family as unit of care
    • 5 teaching family members in the home is made
    easier
    • 6. gives the family a sense of confidence in
    themselves and in the agency
    DISADVANTAGE OF HOME VISIT-

    • 1.Cost related to time and effort


    • 2. Unable to control environment
    • 3.More distractions in the home
    • 4. Nurse safety may also be a concern
    PHASES OF HOME VISIT

    • I. Pre-visit phase- planning process is done in this


    phase
    • Principles in planning a home visit.
    • 1.. home visit should have a purpose
    a. Assess accurately family’s living
    conditions b. Educate the family
    members
    c. Prevent the spread of infections- family
    and community
    d. Supplemental interventions- sick ,
    disabled, dependent family member
    e. Provide greater access the health
    resources
    PRINCIPLES IN PLANNING A HOME VISIT.

    • 2. Use information about the family collected from all


    possible sources
    • 3. plan focuses on identified family needs particularly
    needs recognized by the family requiring urgent attention
    • 4. client and family actively participate in planning for
    continuing care
    • 5. plan should be practical and adaptable
    • Nurse should be prepared before home visit.
    • A. nursing bag –complete
    • B. comply with practices and policies- inform
    personnel
    • C. buddy system is suggested
    D. NURSE SHOULD INFORM THE FAMILY TO
    BE VISITED

    • II. In-home phase- nurse seeks permission to enter


    • A. Initiation-
    • B. implementation- involves
    • > assessment , physical care, nurse evaluates with
    the family what they have accomplished during
    the visit
    C. Termination- summarizing what was done ,
    recording
    • III. Post-visit phase –nurse has returned to the
    clinic, documentation what transpired during the
    visit, personal observation and feeling of the
    nurse. Recording to help other members of the
    health team understand the family for continuity
    of care,
    NURSING BAG OR PHN BAG

    • Contents of the PHN bag;


    • 1. articles for infection control
    • 2. articles for assessment of family members
    • 3. articles for nursing care- sterile items, clean
    items piece of paper for lining
    PRINCIPLES IN THE USE OF THE NURSING BAG;

    • 1. bag technique helps the nurse in infection


    control
    • 2 allows the nurse to give care efficiently
    • 3. should not take away the nurse’s focus on the
    patient and the family
    • 4. may be performed in different ways
    ACTIVITIES OF THE NURSE IN INFECTION
    CONTROL DURING THE HOME VISIT.

    • >start from clean to contaminated


    • > contents of bag should be well protected from
    contact with any articles in the patient’s home
    • >line the table/ flat surface with a paper or
    washable protector
    • >wash hands before and after assessment and care
    • > bring only articles needed in the care of family
    • >do not put family articles on the paper lining
    • >wash articles is possible before returning to you
    bag
    • >after using the apron fold it with contaminated
    side inward
    • >wash the inner cloth lining of the bag as
    necessary

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