Home Nursing Techniques; Signs & Symptoms of Illnesses & Diseases

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?
-A good home nurse should really know how to make the patient comfortable, a home nurse can make the patient comfortable by always checking how the patient is doing and always fix the patient's bed and lots more.A good home nurse should also know how to make the patient's recovery go faster, a good home nurse can do this by always making the patient happy.

2.  Why should the home nurse monitor the vital signs of the patient?
-The home nurse has to check for the vital signs so that patient as well as the patient's family what is going on with the patient.

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

BODY TEMPERATURE 

- There are lots of ways of taking the patient's temperature, it can be through the ear, armpit, rectum.

All we have to do is get the instrument for checking the temperature and put it to the area that is suggested.

PULSE RATE 

-We have to first locate the pulse then place two fingers on the wrist then count the beats for only one minute.

RESPIRATORY RATE

-The home nurse must take the respiratory rate when the patient is not aware because when they know that you are taking their respiration rate they can alter there breathing.

BLOOD PRESSURE 

-We can take our blood pressure by using a device called sphygmomanometer also with the stethoscope to hear the signals for the systolic and diastolic pressure.

4.  What are some practices that the home nurse must follow that will promote comfort to the patient?
- A home nurse must always comfort the patient by always fixing the bed and always attending the needs of the patient.

5.  How will you differentiate signs from symptoms of illnesses and diseases?
-Vital signs are essential signs supporting life such as blood pressure, body temperature, pulse rate and respiratory rate.
-Symptoms Compare sign any sensation or change in bodily function experienced by a patient that is associated with a particular disease.
  
6.  If you are the doctor, what will be your basis in giving the diagnosis for your patient?
-I will have to tell the patient calmly and kindly so that the patient will not have to take it painfully.