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Technology and
Livelihood Education
Caregiving
Module 3

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Technology and Livelihood Education – Grade 8
Alternative Delivery Mode
Module 3: CAREGIVING
First Edition, 2020
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Technology and
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Caregiving
Module 3

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Lesson 3: USE OF TOOLS, EQUIPMENT AND PARAPHERNALIA
What’s New ---------------- 17
What is It ---------------- 18
What’s More ---------------- 23
What I Have Learned ---------------- 26
What I Can Do ---------------- 27

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 Lesson
Use Tools, Equipment and
3 Paraphernalia

LEARNING OUTCOME 2
LO 2. Use Caregiving Tools Equipment, And Paraphernalia

2.1 Use equipment, tools and paraphernalia based on the

task requirement

What’s New

Activity: Individual Activity

Directions: Go to your barangay health center. Observe the health workers
in using the thermometer or the sphygmomanometer and answer the
following question.

Questions:
1. What did you observe while the health worker is using the
thermometer?
2. What are the 2 important things that he does upon using thermometer
3. Record the steps that he does. you the important steps that you
observe.

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 What is It

Lesson Information 3

Common Equipment in Taking the Vital Signs

In caring a person whether it is a baby, a child, elderly or any human who needs
care, the first thing to do is taking its vital signs and it is your duty to inform your client
about their vital signs.

This part gives will gives you a chance to be familiar of the two significant
measurements. As learning goes you will be able to learn the important of taking
exact reading in taking vital signs. But what is vital signs? Vital signs are physical
functions that replicate the body’s state of health and are easily measurable: body
temperature, pulse rate, respiratory rate, and blood pressure. In other situation, the
fifth vital sign is measured to be the pain that a person experience.

Thermometer

Body temperature is an amount of the total heat in the body. The balance
amongst heat produced and heat lost is the body temperature. The standard adult
body temperature is 37 degrees Celsius. There is an ordinary range in which a
person’s body temperature may vary and still be measured normal. Take a look at
these normal ranges of body temperature:

Oral : 36.4 - 37.2° C

Rectal : 37 - 37.8 ° C
Axillary : 35.9 - 36.7° C

The following are the different types of thermometers:

thumbs.dreamtime.com Clinical thermometer can be placed

either into the rectum over the anus (rectal
temperature), in the mouth beneath the
tongue (oral or sub-lingual) or armpit
(axillary temperature). It is made of glass
with a narrowing above the bulb so that the
mercury part stays in position even when
the instrument is detached. The use of this
type is now being eliminated as the
mercury content is hazardous to people.

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 Digital thermometer can be placed in the
mouth under the tongue, under the armpit
or into the anus. This thermometer shows
the reading in the LCD. This It does not
content mercury that is dangerous to
people. It is simple, quick and effective.
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Ear digital thermometer measures the

heat approaching from the eardrum and
the temperature shown on an LCD, very
easy to use this. Put the tip in the ear of a
person, press the button and in a few
seconds, the readings are seen on the
LCD.

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Infrared thermometer with laser pointer

measures temperature using thermal
radiation out by the body. Also known
laser thermometer. Others call it non-
contact thermometer because of its
capability to measure temperature from a
distance. Presently used in our new
normal situation.
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Using a Digital Thermometer (rectum through the anus)

1. Wash your hands and take away the thermometer out of its container.

2. Clean the probe (pointed end) of the thermometer by rubbing alcohol / soap
and then

rinse it in cool water.

3. Put a probe cover over the pointed end of the thermometer. If your
thermometer has no probe cover, start using the thermometer.

4. Grease the end of the probe with a small amount of lubricating jelly.

5. Hold your child (using thermometer in the rectum usually applicable on

children) on his stomach across a steady surface or your lap before getting his
temperature.

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 6. Lightly slide the probe of the thermometer into the rectum around half inch.
Stop inserting the thermometer if it becomes hard to insert. Do not force the
thermometer into the rectum.

7. Continue holding the thermometer the whole time you are taking the
temperature. Continuously be with your client while taking the temperature.

8. Keep the thermometer in place till it toots then take away the thermometer

9. Read the figures on the LCD. These figures are your client's temperature.
10. If you used a probe cover, eliminate it and throw it away.

11.Wash the probe of the thermometer with soap, water and rubbing alcohol
once you
are done. Placed the thermometer’s tip cover. Put the thermometer in its
holder.

12. Record the data.

13. Wash your hands.

Using a Digital Thermometer (mouth)

1. Wash your hands and get the thermometer from its vessel.
2. Clean the probe (pointed end) of the thermometer with rubbing alcohol or
soap and then rinse it in cool water.
3. Tell the client that you will take his temperature orally.
4. Tell the client to damp his/her lips and pick up his tongue.

5. Put the thermometer beneath the client’s tongue on one side of his/her
mouth. Tell him/her to close his/her lips. (Though hold the thermometer
particularly if the client is sick and too weak to hold the thermometer with his/her
lips.)

6. Leave the thermometer in place till the thermometer signs it is done. When it
beeps, it indicates that it can be detached.

7. Take away the thermometer carefully and read the temperature on the
numerical display. Clean the tip of the thermometer with a cotton ball dipped in
alcohol. Place the thermometer’s tip cover. Put the thermometer in its
container.

8. Record the data and wash your hands.

Using a Digital Thermometer (armpit)

1. Wash your hands and remove the thermometer from its vessel.

2. Clean the probe (pointed end) of the thermometer by rubbing alcohol /soap
and then rinse it in cool water.

3. Tell the client that you are will take his temperature under the armpit.

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 4. Put the thermometer under the client’s armpit. (You can hold the
thermometer particularly if your client is too sick and frail that he/she cannot
even grip the thermometer with his/her armpit.)

5. Leave the thermometer in place until the thermometer signs it is done. When
the thermometer beeps, it means that it can be detached.

6. Remove the thermometer slowly and read the temperature on the numerical
display. Clean the tip of the thermometer with a cotton ball dipped in alcohol.
Place the thermometer’s tip cover. Put the thermometer in its container.

7. Record the data and wash your hands.

BP Apparatus

One more vital measurement that you must study is to take is the blood pressure.
Blood pressure is the force of the blood push against the walls of the blood vessels.
The heart contracts as it pushes the blood into the arteries. When the heart is
contracting, the pressure is highest. This pressure is called the systolic pressure.
When, the heart relaxes between each contraction, the pressure declines. When
the heart is at its utmost calm state, the pressure is lowest. And this is diastolic
pressure. The next stages will help you measure blood pressure precisely.

K to 12 Caregiving LM
1. Wash your hands and prepare the paraphernalia you will need.

2. Acquaint yourself and let the patient/client tell the method to be done.

3. Disinfect the earpieces of the stethoscope with a sterile pad.

4. Request your client to rest silently. Have him/her lie down or sit on a
chair any comfortable for him/her.

5. If you are using a mercurial apparatus, the measuring scale should be

in the level of your eyes.

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 6. Expose the arm of your client by rolling the sheaths up. Take your
client’s arm from the elbow down to rest fully stretched on the bed or the arm
of a chair.

7. Unfold the cuff, release the screw and squeeze the cuff with your
hands to take away air entirely.

8. Cape the cuff around your client’s arm above the elbow, not too tight
or too slack.

9. Look your client’s brachial pulse at the inside of the elbow. Hold the
diaphragm there and bloat the cuff until the pulse fades. Take note of the
reading and immediately decrease the cuff. This is the client’s approximate
systolic reading and is called the palpated systolic pressure.

10. Put the stethoscope’s earpieces into your ears and put the diaphragm
on the brachial pulse.

11. Turn the screw to close it. Bloat the cuff until the dial points to 30 mm
above the palpated systolic pressure.

12. Turn the screw to open it. Let the air release slowly until the sound of
the pulse comes back. Take note of the calibration that the pointer passes
as you receive the first sound. This specifies the systolic pressure.

13. You have to continue freeing the air from the cuff. When you receive
the sounds change to somewhat softer and faster and vanish, take note of
the calibration. This is now the diastolic pressure.

14. Deflate the cuff totally. Take it from the arm of your client and take
the reading on the client’s chart.

15. Rub the earpieces of the stethoscope with an antiseptic pad and put
the equipment back to their proper place and wash your hands.

What’s More

Minute Paper
1.What do you think will happen if a person does not even know how to use the
thermometer?

_____________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________

2. As a caregiver, why do we need to learn in using the tools, equipment and

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____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________

Activity A: SEQUENCING PERIOD

Directions: The learners will arrange the following by using letters A - G
Using a Digital Thermometer (armpit)
_______ 1. Put the thermometer under the client’s armpit.
_______ 2. Wash your hands and take the thermometer from its vessel.
_______ 3. Leave the thermometer in place until the thermometer signs it is
finished. When the thermometer beeps, it means that it can be
detached.
_______ 4. Clean the probe (pointed end) of the thermometer by rubbing
alcohol or soap and then rinse it in cool water.
_______ 5. Tell the client that you will take his temperature under the armpit.
_______ 6. Record the reading and wash your hands.
_______ 7. Remove the thermometer silently and read the temperature on the
numerical display. Clean the tip of the thermometer with a cotton ball
dipped in alcohol. Put the thermometer’s tip cover. Place the
thermometer in its container.

Activity B: SEQUENCING PERIOD

Directions: The learners will arrange the following by using letters A - N

BP Apparatus

_____ 1. Cape the cuff around your client’s arm above the elbow, not too tight or
too loose.

_____ 2. Turn the screw to close it. Bloat the cuff until the dial points to 30 mm
above the palpated systolic pressure.

_____ 3. Turn the screw to close it. Bloat the cuff until the dial points to 30 mm
above the palpated systolic pressure.

_____ 4. Look your client’s brachial pulse at the inside of the elbow. Hold the
diaphragm there and inflate the cuff until the pulse disappears.

_____ 5. Expose the arm of your client by rolling the sheaths up. Have your client’s
arm from the elbow down to rest fully stretched on the bed or the arm of a
chair.

_____ 6. Request your client to rest silently. Have him/her lie down or sit on a
chair any comfortable for him/her.

_____ 7. Disinfect the earpieces of the stethoscope with a sterile pad.

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_____ 8. Deflate the cuff totally. Take from the arm of your client and record the
reading on the client’s chart.

_____ 9. Acquaint yourself and tell the patient/client know the methods to be done.

_____ 10. If you are using a mercurial apparatus, the measuring scale should be
within the level of your eyes.

_____ 11. Unfold the cuff, release the screw and squeeze the cuff with your hands to
Take away air completely.

_____ 12. Put the stethoscope’s earpieces into your ears and place the diaphragm
on the brachial pulse.

_____ 13. Turn the screw to open it. Let the air release slowly until the sound of the
pulse comes back.

_____ 14. You have to continue releasing the air from the cuff. When you receive
the sounds change to something softer and faster and vanish, take note
of the calibration.

_____ 15. Rub the earpieces of the stethoscope with an antiseptic pad and place the
equipment back to their proper place and wash your hands.

Activity. Simulation (Teacher coordinate with LGU)

Directions: Using a baby doll or a baby, you are assigned to do

basic caregiving tasks listed below.

Learner Activities Tools/Practices

“Caring for”

1. taking body temperature

2. changing diaper

3. taking pulse rate

4. taking blood pressure

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 What I Have Learned

Self-check 3

Activity: AMAZING KNOWLEDGE

Directions: Activate your learning about taking vital signs by answering the question
below.

WHAT I KNOW about taking vital signs WHAT I LEARNED about taking
vital signs

What I Can Do

Activity: Cut and mount

Topic: Proper usage of tools, equipment, and paraphernalia

Competency: Use equipment, tools and paraphernalia based on the task

requirement.

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Directions: Collect picture of tools that shows/demonstrate different task. Paste on
the provided table. (note: in the absence of picture, drawing is acceptable).

Task/Picture Tools Function of the tools

Ex. Taking vital signs Digital

thermometer

Rubrics:

SCORING Students
ACCURACY (100%) CRITERIA Score
Identified and demonstrated the function of 5
100
equipment, tools, or paraphernalia
Identified and demonstrated the function of 4
90
equipment, tools, or paraphernalia
Identified and demonstrated the function of 3
80
equipment, tools, or paraphernalia
Identified and demonstrated the function of 2 70
equipment, tools, or paraphernalia
Identified and demonstrated the function of 1
60
equipment, tools, or paraphernalia
Failed to identify and demonstrate the
function of any of the given equipment, tools, 50
or paraphernalia

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