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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…

Andrew Reinert April 8, 2010

Health & Personal Care

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…

Andrew Reinert April 8, 2010

Health & Personal Care

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…

Andrew Reinert April 8, 2010

Health & Personal Care

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…

Andrew Reinert April 8, 2010

Health & Personal Care

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…

Andrew Reinert April 8, 2010

Health & Personal Care

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…

Andrew Reinert April 8, 2010

Health & Personal Care

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…

Andrew Reinert April 7, 2010

Health & Personal Care

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…

Andrew Reinert April 7, 2010

Health & Personal Care

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…

Andrew Reinert April 7, 2010

Health & Personal Care

How to Help Your Patients Manage the Hair

Brush and comb the patient's hair at least twice a day, and arrange it in a style that is easy to manage and pleases the patient. Anyone who has been…

Andrew Reinert April 7, 2010

Health & Personal Care

How to Make a Bed When the Patient Cannot Get Up

In these circumstances it is especially important that two people make the bed together. See that the room is warm and tell the patient what you are going to do…

Andrew Reinert April 7, 2010

Health & Personal Care

How to Move a Patient

Sitting the patient up You will want to sit the patient up for meals and as a change of position, but this is also the first step in lifting her…

Andrew Reinert April 7, 2010

Home & Maintenance

How to Plan a Child’s Room

The day of the formal nursery is past but, where possible, the new baby should have a room to himself, which in time can double as a playroom. The aim…

Jason Prickett April 7, 2010

Lifestyle & Personality

How to Plan Activities for Children

Children pose a special problem. When they are very ill they are not interested in much except perhaps a favourite toy to cuddle or a story. But as soon as…

Alan Kennon April 7, 2010

Health & Personal Care

How to Prepare a Diet for Your Patient

For a number of conditions the doctor will order a specific diet, which must, of course, be followed carefully. In many other cases, the doctor will simply indicate the type…

Andrew Reinert April 7, 2010

Health & Personal Care

How to Prevent Infection While Dealing with Wounds

The area must be cleaned so that any dirt is washed away and the wound must be covered with a dressing. A satisfactory dressing prevents micro-organisms from entering the wound…

Andrew Reinert April 7, 2010

Health & Personal Care

How to Re-Learn after an Illness or an Accident

More than half of adults don’t have a Will. If this includes you – it is most likely the expensive solicitors fees that are putting you o?. Or it could be…

Andrew Reinert April 7, 2010

Health & Personal Care

How to Secure a Dressing While Dealing with Wounds

It is essential for dressings to remain in place, so they must be carefully secured. The way to secure a particular dressing depends on what type it is. Adhesive dressings…

Andrew Reinert April 7, 2010

Family & Relationships

How to Select Clothing for Children

The new baby Mothers of new babies are often given far too much clothing, most of which their babies rapidly outgrow. The rule is to keep clothing simple: avoid fussy…

Roberta Southworth April 7, 2010

Lifestyle & Personality

How to Sterilize Napkins

Wet napkins must be properly washed and rinsed, so that ammonia from the urine or detergent from the wash does not come into prolonged contact with the baby’s skin. Soiled…

Alan Kennon April 7, 2010