A BETTER CARE GIVING

Nursing Care at Home

What should you do?
 Instruction on food and drink, Exercise and activity to avoid.
 Personal Hygiene.
 Breast surgery wound - Dressing protocol.
 Take medicine safely and as instructed.
 Hand Hygiene
 Mouth Wash
 Betadine 3-4 time/day
 Gauze piece cleaning
 Chlorhexidine mouth wash 3-4 times/day
 Feeding
 Oral
 RT
 FJ
 Wound care
 Dressing Local hospital
 Dressing Home
 Medication
 How and when to take
 Early Mobilization
 In home with or without support

Red Flags to look out for

Look out for these signs of distress and immediately call the hospital
 Persistent fever
 Purulent discharge
 Increase in wound pain with pain and fever (doesn’t get better 24 hours)
 Loose motion > 10 times a day
 Redness and swelling in surgical area
 Any new or worsening problem
Common
What you do at home?
 Hand Hygiene
 Personal Hygiene
 Mouth Wash
 Betadine/Chlorhexidine mouth wash 3-4 times/day
 Oral / RYLE’s / FJ tube feeding to be done as per doctor’s order and keep the tube
clean by flushing with plain water after each feed. Clean & well cooked food, Avoid
outside & Raw food
 Wound Care
 Wash hands before and after changing a dressing
 Wear gloves
 Clean the wound with saline solution
 Dry it & apply new dressing
 Medication
 Take medication at time and keep them in their original boxes
 Drink water and stay hydrated
 Mild exercise regularly as instructed by doctors
 Get enough good sleep
 Mobilization
 Minimizing alcohol consumption
 Stay physically active
 Diet: Boiled egg
 Sitz bath for all patients.