American Red Cross Text-Book on Home Hygiene and Care of the SickAmerican National Red Cross
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American Red Cross Text-Book on Home Hygiene and Care of the Sick
American National Red Cross
Home nursing; Hygiene; Nurses; Nursing
3. Describe and demonstrate every device you would use and every
thing you would do to prevent pressure sores.
4. Arrange pillows to support the arms of a person sitting up in
bed.
5. Arrange a table or a substitute for a table to support the book
or work of a patient sitting up in bed.
6. Arrange the light for a patient who is allowed to read in bed.
IV.
1. Assemble all the articles you would use in giving a bed bath.
(How long did it take you?)
2. Show how to give a complete bed bath. (How long did it take you?
Did you have to stop the bath to fetch anything you had
forgotten?)
3. What special care would you give to the mouth and teeth? to the
finger and toe nails? to the hair? to badly tangled hair? How
would you cleanse the mouth of a helpless patient?
4. Show how to shampoo the hair of a bed patient.
5. Show how you would give a bath to a baby.
6. Show everything that you would do to prepare a patient for the
night.
V.
1. Show how to take the temperature, pulse, and respiration.
2. Show how to cleanse a clinical thermometer.
3. Show how to give a foot bath (_a_) to a patient out of bed, (_b_)
to a patient in bed.
4. Show how you would give a cool sponge bath to a feverish patient.
5. Show how to give, remove, and cleanse a bed-pan.
6. Show how to fill and apply a hot water bag; an ice bag.
7. Show how to prepare and apply a mustard paste; a mustard leaf; a
flaxseed poultice; hot fomentations; cold compresses.
8. Show how to measure and administer a fluid medicine; pills or
tablets.
9. Show how to prepare and administer a salt and water enema to a
grown person; to a baby.
10. Show how to prepare steam inhalations.
11. Show how to apply an ointment; a liniment.
VI.
1. Show how you would feed a helpless patient who is lying down.
2. Show how you would feed a patient who is able to sit up but
unable to use his hands.
3. Prepare a liquid nourishment tray.
4. Set a tray for light diet; for full diet.
5. Show how to place a tray for a patient unable to sit up but able
to feed himself; for a patient sitting up in bed.
6. What personal care should be given a patient just before meals?
just after meals?
7. How would you modify the diet of a patient inclined to
constipation? to diarrhœa?
VII.
1. Describe effective household methods for removing dust.
2. Demonstrate the cleaning of a refrigerator.
3. Show how to ventilate a sick room while protecting the patient
from direct draughts.
4. Show how to clean a sick room with a minimum of disturbance to
the patient.
5. Explain how a patient with communicable disease should be
isolated.
6. Demonstrate the daily care of a room occupied by a patient with
communicable disease.
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