Immediate Nursing Care of the Newborn

Immediate Nursing Care of the Newborn Newborns undergo profound physiologic changes at the moment of birth, as they are released from a warm, snug, dark liquid-filed environment that has met all of their basic needs, into a chilly, unbounded, brightly lit, gravity based outside world.Within minutes after being plunged into this strange environment, a newborn’s body must initiate respirations and accommodate a circulatory system to extrauterine...

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Levels of Health Care Referral System

Levels of Health Care Referral System There are 3 different levels of health care system which are primary, secondary, and tertiary. In this post, you’ll get to know more about these health care systems. These referral systems are interlinked or interconnected to one another. Primary Level of Care Devolved to cities and municipalities Usually the first contact between the community members and other levels of health facility. Center...

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DOH Maternal Health Program

DOH MATERNAL HEALTH PROGRAM The Maternal Health Program is a set of actions and services administered by the Department of Health to aid women before, during and after pregnancy. The Philippines is tasked to reduce the maternal mortality ratio (MMR) by three quarters by 2015 to achieve its millennium development goal. This means a MMR of 112/100,000 live births in 2010 and 80/100,000 live births by 2015. Year Expected MMR 2010 112/100,000...

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Nursing Home Visit

NURSING HOME VISIT A nursing home visit is a family-nurse contact which allows the health worker to assess the home and family situations in order to provide the necessary nursing care and health related activities. In performing  home visits, it is essential to prepare a plan of visit to meet the needs of the client and achieve the best results of desired outcomes. Purposes To give care to the sick, to a postpartum mother and her...

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Bag Technique

  BAG TECHNIQUE The bag technique is a tool by which the nurse, during her visit will enable her to perform a nursing procedure with ease and deftness, to save time and effort with the end view of rendering effective nursing care to clients.The public health bag is an essential and indispensable equipment of a public health nurse which she has to carry along during her home visits. It contains basic medication and articles which are necessary...

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COPAR (Community Organizing Participatory Action Research)

COPAR Definitions of COPAR    A social development approach that aims to transform the apathetic, individualistic and voiceless poor into dynamic, participatory and politically responsive community.    A collective, participatory, transformative, liberative, sustained and systematic process of building people’s organizations by mobilizing and enhancing the capabilities and resources of the people for the resolution...

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COMMMUNITY HEALTH NURSING

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Hints To Malignant Melanoma

  HINTS TO MALIGNANT MELANOMA Even if you have carefully practiced sun safety all summer, it's important to continue being vigilant about your skin in fall, winter, and beyond. Throughout the year, you should examine your skin head-to-toe once a month, looking for any suspicious lesions. Self-exams can help you identify potential skin cancers early, when they can almost always be completely cured.First, for a successful self-exam, you...

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5 Areas for Listening to the Heart

   5 AREAS FOR LISTENING TO THE HEART There are five important areas used for listening to heart sounds. These are: Aortic area, Pulmonic area, Tricuspid area, Mitral Area (Apex), ERB's point. A common notation for a sound heard at an auscultatory site is to use the first initial of the site and the number 1 or 2 to describe the first or second heart sound respectively. Thus T1 denotes the first heart sound...

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Tools On Physical Assessment

  TOOLS ON PHYSICAL ASSESSMENT Inspection/Observation    Observe the overall appearance of the child: alert, orientated, active/hyperactive/drowsy, irritable.    Colour(centrally and peripherally): pink, flushed, pale, mottled, cyanosed , clubbing    Respiratory rate, rhythm and depth (shallow, normal or deep)    Respiratory effort (Work of Breathing WOB): mild, moderate, severe,...

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Secondary Assessment History

SECONDARY  ASSESSMENT HISTORY AMPLE history.A    AllergiesM   Medications (Anticoagulants, insulin and cardiovascular medications especially)P    Previous medical/surgical historyL    Last meal (Time)E    Events /Environment surrounding the injury; ie. Exactly what happened  Secondary Survey Pitfalls:1. Head and face    a. Posterior scalp lacs/compound...

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Pain Measurement Scale

  PAIN MEASUREMENT SCALE This tool was originally created with children to help them communicate about their pain.  Now it is used around the world with people ages 3 and older, improving assessment so pain management can be addressed. To use this scale, your doctor should explain that each face shows how a person in pain is feeling. That is, a person may feel happy because he or she has no pain (hurt), or a person may feel sad...

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PQRST Pain Assessment Method

 PQRST PAIN ASSESSMENT METHOD Since pain is subjective, self-report is considered the Gold Standard and most accurate measure of pain. The PQRST method of assessing pain is a valuable tool to accurately describe, assess and document a patient’s pain. The method also aids in the selection of appropriate pain medication and evaluating the response to treatment.Nurses can help patients more accurately report their pain by using these very...

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Pain Assessment Mnemonics

PAIN ASSESSMENT SOCRATES is a mnemonic acronym used by emergency medical services, doctors, nurses and other health professionals to evaluate the nature of pain that a patient is experiencing. The acronym is used to gain an insight into the patient's condition, and to allow the Health Care Provider to develop a plan for dealing with it.    *Site - Where is the pain? Or the maximal site of the pain.    *Onset...

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FUNDAMENTALS OF NURSING

TOOLS ON PHYSICAL ASSESSMENT PAIN ASSESSMENT    PQRST PAIN ASSESSMENT METHOD  PAIN MEASUREMENT SCALE     SECONDARY ASSESSMENT HISTORY  HINTS TO MALIGNANT MELANOMA   5 AREAS FOR LISTENING TO THE HEART &nbs...

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Dorothea Orem- Self-Care Theory

   DOROTHEA OREM - SELF CARE THEORY Dorothea Elizabeth Orem (1914 – June 22, 2007), born in Baltimore, Maryland, was a nursing theorist and creator of the self-care deficit nursing theory, also known as the Orem model of nursing. Through these, the Self-Care Nursing Theory or the Orem Model of Nursing was developed by Dorothea Orem between 1959 and 2001. It is considered a grand nursing theory, which means the theory covers a broad...

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Virginia Henderson - Nursing Need Theory

  VIRGINIA HENDERSON - NURSING NEED THEORY Virginia Avenel Henderson, (November 30, 1897 – March 19, 1996) was an influential nurse, researcher, theorist and author.[1]Henderson is famous for a definition of nursing: "The unique function of the nurse is to assist the individual, sick or well, in the performance of those activities contributing to health or its recovery (or to peaceful death) that he would perform unaided if he had the necessary...

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Sister Callista L. Roy - Adaptation Model of Nursing

  SISTER CALLISTA L. ROY -  ADAPTATION MODEL OF NURSING Sister Callista Roy, CSJ (born October 14, 1939) is an American nursing theorist, professor and author. She is known for creating the adaptation model of nursing. Roy was designated as a 2007 Living Legend by the American Academy of Nursing. Roy’s Adaptation Model of Nursing was developed by Sister Callista Roy in 1976. The prominent nursing theory aims to explain or...

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