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How to Care for a Patient with a Communicable Disease

Your aims in caring for someone with a communicable disease are twofold: to provide nursing care, and to prevent the spread of infection to others. Nursing the patient The type…

Andrew Reinert April 8, 2010

Health & Personal Care

How to Care for a Patient with an Inflammation

When caring for a patient with an inflammation, the aims are: to reduce the swelling to relieve pain to remove the infection. If the area is large, the patient should…

Andrew Reinert April 8, 2010

Health & Personal Care

How to Care for a Tracheostomy Patient at Home

An increasing number of patients breathe through an artificial opening in the neck called a tracheostomy. You should be aware of the reasons for this if you are to care…

Andrew Reinert April 8, 2010

Family & Relationships

How to Change the Napkin for Your New Baby

Babies pass urine frequently and should never be left in a wet napkin. Some babies pass urine at regular times but most do not. Every time you change the napkin…

Roberta Southworth April 8, 2010

Lifestyle & Personality

How to Choose Clothing for the Incontinent

Incontinence brings many problems, but garments that open easily, have wrap-over backs or conceal drainage bags alleviate some of them. For those female patients whose problem is the inability to…

Roberta Southworth April 8, 2010

Health & Personal Care

How to Communicate with a Confused Patient

Temporary confusion may occur if a patient has a high temperature or is suffering from mental illness; in the latter case the confusion may arise as a result of the…

Andrew Reinert April 8, 2010

Health & Personal Care

How to Deal with Fever

You should know how to tell when a patient has a raised temperature (fever). You should also know what measures to take if it is raised. It is important to…

Andrew Reinert April 8, 2010

Lifestyle & Personality

How to Dress a New Baby

In the first months of life most babies do not like to be naked: without a wrapping of some sort they feel insecure. Their intense dislike of being undressed can…

Roberta Southworth April 8, 2010

Health & Personal Care

How to Eat Well and Healthy

To eat well means to eat a variety of foods containing the different nutrients, which are the basic substances that the body needs to remain healthy. The nutrients in food…

Andrew Reinert April 8, 2010

Health & Personal Care

How to Encouraging s Patient’s Mobility

Many patients recovering from a serious illness or an operation need help at first with walking and moving about. Elderly patients may also need help to a greater or lesser…

Andrew Reinert April 8, 2010

Health & Personal Care

How to Establish a Healthy Food Habit

Although the diet of a healthy person must contain essential nutrients, these can be obtained in many ways and there are no essential foods. Even in a small country like…

Andrew Reinert April 8, 2010

Health & Personal Care

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…

Andrew Reinert April 8, 2010

Health & Personal Care

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…

Andrew Reinert April 8, 2010

Health & Personal Care

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…

Andrew Reinert April 8, 2010

Health & Personal Care

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…

Andrew Reinert April 8, 2010

Family & Relationships

How to Help a Baby Sleep

The new baby A newborn baby has not yet established a sleeping pattern. He will sleep when he needs to sleep for as long as his body tells him to…

Roberta Southworth April 8, 2010

Lifestyle & Personality

How to Help a Patient into the Shower or Bath

Helping a patient into the shower or bath is not easy, particularly when helping him into or out of the bath: avoid injury to yourself by keeping your back straight,…

Alan Kennon April 8, 2010

Health & Personal Care

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…

Andrew Reinert April 8, 2010

Health & Personal Care

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…

Andrew Reinert April 8, 2010

Health & Personal Care

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…

Andrew Reinert April 8, 2010