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How to Give Medicine by Mouth
The most usual way of giving drugs is by mouth. Medicines given by mouth come in several forms. They may be liquids, tablets, capsules, pills or powders. You will proceed…
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How to Give Medicines to Children
If medicines have been prescribed for a child by a doctor from a pediatric care service, the child needs those medicines. He should take them, even if he dislikes them…
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How to Give Oxygen to a Patient with Breathing Difficulties
Frequently in hospital and sometimes at home a patient may be given oxygen to assist his breathing. Oxygen is supplied in a black and white cylinder. In the home a…
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How to Help a Breathless Patient
Most patients with breathing difficuities find it easier to breathe when sitting upright. A backrest and pillows will help while a board or pillow to support the feet will stop…
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How to Help a Patient Recover from Day Treatments
People who attend hospitals or centres as day patients may do so for a variety of different reasons. Patients attending hospital may be receiving continuous daily treatment or they may…
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How to Help a Patient to Breathe
For the patient to breathe easily, his air Passages must be kept clear. This may be a straightforward matter of making sure he changes position frequently, or it may require…
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How to Help a Patient to Communicate His Needs Effectively
Communication is an essential social process. People need to communicate: to express their anxieties and their emotions, to make known their wants, and to go about their daily lives. As…
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How to Help a Patient to Dress and Undress
Choice of clothing is a very personal thing and both patients and their relatives will probably have fixed ideas about what they like and dislike. Cultural or religious traditions may…
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How to Help a Patient to Make Good Use of His Time
Recreation means exactly what it says: recreation. It covers any activity that is found to be refreshing and renewing. Patients need it as much as anybody else, but many find…
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How to Help a Patient to Overcome Disabilities and Master New Skills
A baby at birth knows nothing about the world. To develop normally he must learn. The only way he can learn is by taking an interest in his surroundings. For…
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How to Help a Patient Who is Newly Discharged from Hospital
When a patient is discharged from hospital into the home, you will need information on a number of points in order to assess his condition and estimate how much and…
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How to Help a Patient with Mentally Illness
Volunteers who are caring for the mentally ill often ask: "What should I say?" There is no magic formula, no easy answer, but with care and thought it is unlikely…
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How to Help the Incontinent Patient
A great deal can be done to help the incontinent patient who, already humiliated and distressed, must not also be made to feel a nuisance. The bladder tends to respond…
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How to Help the Patient in a Wheelchair
As a volunteer or helper in the home, you may find that you have to care for a patient in a wheelchair. Patients in a wheelchair should have appropriate beds…
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How to Help the Patient in Bed
Most homes have low beds. These make nursing difficult, mainly because the risk of back strain for the helper is greater. Bed blocks can be placed under the bed legs…
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How to Help the Patient to Avoid the Dangers of the Environment
Healthy people are usually able to choose their environment. If anything makes it uncomfortable or dangerous, they are free to make adjustments or move away. The person confined to bed…
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How to Help the Patient to Keep His Body Clean
The feverish patient sweats profusely and becomes hot, sticky, and uncomfortable. This is because the sweat glands in his skin are more active than usual. A regular part of your…
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How to Help the Patient to Take and Care for His Medicines
The ancients were studying simple plants for their healing properties long before anything precise was known about the nature of drugs. The plants were used to prevent disease, cure illness…
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How to Help Your Patient to Deal with His Excretions
Helping the patient with elimination is one of the most testing aspects of your nursing care. A difficult and embarrassing service for the patient to accept, he must never sense…
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How to Help Your Patient to Deal with His Faeces
The process of food digestion begins in the stomach and is completed in the duodenum and small intestine. Nutrients are absorbed through the intestinal wall into the bloodstream. Water and…