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Florence nightingale
2. Analyzation of the patient’s condition. breathe, drink and eat, carry out
physiological needs (urination), sleep, move, maintain normal body
temperature, communicate and other.
should include operational and tactical objectives aimed to achieve certain long-
term or short-term results.
4-Types of interventions
- Transporting patients.
1. Hospital
2. Ambulatory
3. Doctors office
4. Nursing home
5. Polyclinic(out patient department of the hospital)
6. Dispensary
7. Clinic
8. Resorts
9. Hospice
• Transporting patients.
1. Waiting hall : (there are patients who do not need bed rest, and their
relatives).
10. Laboratory
1. Gatch beds: seen in nursing homes they have 3 cranks at foot of bed
below mattres . 1- one raises and lowers the bed .2 lowers and raised the
head of the bed 3 lowers and raised the foot of bed
2. Electric beds: basic hospital beds.options are given on the buttons to
lower and raise the bed.
3. Stretchers: types of bed in emergency rooms designed for mobility with
special features such as folding legs to carry the patient easily.
4. Low beds :For patients who are liable to fall off the bed easily to avoid
any kind of injury .
5. Low Air Loss beds: Is a type of beds which has a special system to blow
air in the mettress.these beds are designed for patients with skinr rashes
and diseased like ulcers etc
6. Circo -electric beds:enable the bed to rotate in circular path .this is for
patients with spinal injuries who cannot move .
7. Clinitron beds :similar to Low Air beds and circo-electric beds for
patients with ulcers,skin disorders, burns. Ir reduces pressure on the
patients skin because of the material which circulates air throught the
material to maintain the body temperature and maintain the body weight
evenly.
Trendelenburg : These are fully electric beds with adjustable positions such
as trendelburg position and the cardiac chair position.
Fowler/Ward beds: designed for knee and back rest.Have side rails.
14-Types of hospitalization
Planned hospitalization.
Emergency hospitalization.
Hospitalization when the patient came by themselves.