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?

For me, these could be the home nursing techniques that I can apply to them:

 - Making an unoccupied & occupied bed

- Taking the patients vital signs

- Bathing the patient

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

Because we can know what or how are they feeling when we monitor their vital signs.

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

A thermometer on body temperature, your finger or a pulse rate monitor for the pulse rate, a stethoscope on respiratory rate & a Sphygmomanometer on the blood pressure.

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

 Make them comfortable being patient & be their friend, like making them happy or laugh.

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

 Signs are what doctors can see while the symptoms are what the patient feels or experiences.

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

 I will be responsible and my basis would be following the right observation to let the patient feel better soon and that I can be relieved that my patient is okay knowing that I am his/her doctor.