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Technology and Livelihood Education
Caregiving
Module 3
Use of tools , Equipment and Paraphernalia

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Technology and Livelihood Education- Grade 8
Alternative Delivery Mode
Week 2-3 – Module 3: Use of tools, Equipment and Paraphernalia
First Edition,2020

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Technology and Livelihood Education

Caregiving
Module 3
Use of tools , Equipment and Paraphernalia

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 Table of Contents
What This Module is About...................................................................................................................i
What I need to know...........................................................................................................................i
How to Learn from this Module.........................................................................................................i
Icons of this Module..............................................................................................................................ii
What I know.........................................................................................................................................iv
Use Tools, Equipment and Paraphernalia..............................................................................................1
What I Need to Know........................................................................................................................1
What I Know.....................................................................................................................................1
What’s In.........................................................................................................................2
What’s New..................................................................................................................2
Activity: Individual Activity.........................................................................................................2
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What Is It............................................................................................................................3
Common Equipment in Taking the Vital Signs..................................................................3
Thermometer..............................................................................................................................3
Using a Digital Thermometer (rectum through the anus)...............................................5
Using a Digital Thermometer (mouth).................................................................................5
Using a Digital Thermometer (armpit).................................................................................6
BP Apparatus.............................................................................................................................6
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What’s More................................................................................................8
Activity :SEQUENCING PERIOD Directions: The learners will arrange the following by
using letters A - G.......................................................................................................................8
Activity :SEQUENCING PERIOD Directions: The learners will arrange the following by
using letters A - N.......................................................................................................................9
BP Apparatus.............................................................................................................................9
Activity. Simulation (Teacher coordinate with LGU)................................................................10
What I Have Learned...........................................................................................................................11
Activity: AMAZING KNOWLEDGE........................................................................................11
What I Can Do.....................................................................................................................................12
Activity: Cut and mount.............................................................................................................12
Rubrics:...............................................................................................................................................13
SUMMARY........................................................................................................................................14
ASSESSMENT...................................................................................................................................15
KEY ANSWER...................................................................................................................................16
REFERENCE......................................................................................................................................17
LO2.....................................................................................................................................................17

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What This Module is About

This module will help students to adapt to the new normal. This will help the learners
to acquire knowledge and gain information about caregiving that will help them to get an
NCII certificate in the near future.

It gives the learner a chance to familiarize the different uses of caregiving tools
equipment and paraphernalia. This gives the learner a chance to use caregiving tools,
equipment, and paraphernalia properly.

Your learner in this module about Caregiving is shown in your ability to perform the
following at the end of the lesson.

What I need to know

At the end of the module, you as learners are expected to

2.1 Use equipment, tools and paraphernalia based on the task requirement

How to Learn from this Module

To achieve the objectives cited above, you are to do the following:

• Take your time reading the lessons carefully.

• Follow the directions and/or instructions in the activities and exercises diligently.

• Answer all the given tests and exercises

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Icons of this Module
What I Need to This part contains learning objectives that
Know are set for you to learn as you go along the
module.

What I know This is an assessment as to your level of

knowledge to the subject matter at hand,
meant specifically to gauge prior related
knowledge
What’s In This part connects previous lesson with that
of the current one.

What’s New An introduction of the new lesson through

various activities, before it will be presented
to you

What Is It These are discussions of the activities as a

way to deepen your discovery and under-
standing of the concept.

What’s More These are follow-up activities that are in-

tended for you to practice further in order to
master the competencies.

What I Have Activities designed to process what you

Learned have learned from the lesson

What I can do These are tasks that are designed to show-

case your skills and knowledge gained, and
applied into real-life concerns and situations.

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 What I know
Direction: Let us see how familiar you are about caregiving. Read the question carefully
and write the letter only in your test notebook.

PRE TEST

1. The normal body temperature of a person is.

a. 40°C c. 60°C
b. 37°C d. 25°C
2. The tool used the tools taking vital sign.
a. BP Apparatus b. Brooms
b. Ironing Board d. Hanger
3. Which of the tool does not belong to the group.
a. washing machine c. sphygmomanometer
b. thermometer d. digital thermometer
4. The recommended percentage of alcohol to be used for cleaning is.
a. 37% c. 70%
b. 60% d. 80%
5. It is the normal body rectal temperature
a. 36.4 to 37.2 degrees Celsius c. 40 to 42 degree Celsius
b. 37 to 37.8 degrees Celsius d. 28 to 35 degree Celsius
6. A kind of thermometer that can be inserted in a mouth.
a. digital thermometer c. ear digital thermometer
b. clinical thermometer d. infrared digital thermometer
7. Which of following thermometer used now in times of COVID.
a. digital thermometer c. ear digital thermometer
b. clinical thermometer d. infrared digital thermometer
8. These are bodily functions that reflect the body’s state of health and are easily
measurable: body temperature, pulse rate, respiratory rate, and blood
pressure.
a. traffic signs c. vital signs
b. red cross sign d. emergency sign
9. A tool used to take body temperature.
a. thermometer c. BP apparatus
b. weighing scale d. pulse
10. Which of the following are not considered as vital signs.
a. pulse c. weight
b. temperature d. Blood pressure

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 Lesson
Use Tools, Equipment and
2 Paraphernalia

What I Need to Know

LEARNING OUTCOME 2
LO 2. Use caregiving tools equipment, and paraphernalia

2.1 Use equipment, tools and paraphernalia based on the

task requirement

What I Know

Directions: Write True if the statement is correct, or False if it is incorrect.

______ 1. In some cases, the fifth vital sign is considered to be the pain that a
person experiences.

______ 2. Laser thermometer can be inserted in the mouth.

______ 3. Sphygmomanometer is used in taking body temperature.

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______ 4. Body temperature is a measurement of the amount of heat in the body.

______ 5. 40 degrees Celsius is the normal body temperature.

______ 6. Body temperature is the balance between heat produced and heat lost.

______ 7. Vital signs are bodily functions that reflect the body’s state of health and
are easily measurable.

______ 8. Pulse rate is also an example of vital signs.

______ 9. Thermometer is used in taking blood pressure.

______ 10. Blood pressure can be measured with the use of sphygmomanometer.

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 What’s In

Directions: Draw If you are familiar in using the different kinds of caregiving tools
and if you are not.

Clinical Digital Infrared

Thermometer Thermometer Thermometer

__________ ___________ _________

Ear Digital Vital Sign BP

Thermometer Stethoscope Apparatus

________ _________ _________ _________

Pulse Rate Blood pressure Thermometer

___________ __________ _______

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

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 3. Record the steps that he does. you the important steps that you
observe

What Is It

Common Equipment in Taking the Vital Signs

When caring for an infant, toddler, child, elderly or person with special needs, measuring
the vital signs is of utmost concern. This is also a concern of your client. Hence, he/she
has the right to know her vital signs.

This module will walk you through the basics of taking two of the important measurements.
As you learn the different processes, you will also get your hands on the crucial pointers
necessary in obtaining an accurate reading. But first, let us talk about vital signs. Vital
signs are bodily functions that reflect the body’s state of health and are easily measurable:
body temperature, pulse rate, respiratory rate, and blood pressure. In some cases, the fifth
vital sign is considered to be the pain that a person experiences.

Thermometer

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

Oral : 36.4 to 37.2 degrees Celsius

Rectal : 37 to 37.8 degrees Celsius
Axillary : 35.9 to 36.7 degrees Celsius

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The following are the different types of thermometers:

Clinical thermometer may be inserted either into the

rectum through the anus (rectal temperature), into the
mouth under 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 column stays in
position even when the instrument is removed. The use of
this type is now being eradicated as the mercury content
is dangerous to people.

Digital thermometer may be inserted into the mouth

under the tongue, under the armpit or into the anus. This
thermometer displays the reading in the LCD. This type of
thermometer does not use mercury which is hazardous to
humans. That is why more and more people are using it
now. Also, using this is simple, quick and effective.

Ear digital thermometer measures the heat coming from

the eardrum. This release of heat is converted into a
temperature and displayed on an LCD. It is very easy to
use this. You just have to place the tip in the ear of a
person, press the button and in a few seconds, the
measurement is seen on the LCD.

Infrared thermometer with laser pointer measures

temperature using thermal radiation emitted by the body.
It is also called laser thermometer if a laser is utilized to
aid in aiming the thermometer. Others call it non-contact
thermometer because of its ability to measure temperature
from a distance. It provides temperature reading without
physically touching the object. All you have to do is aim at
the object (as in the forehead), pull the trigger and
immediately, you can see the temperature reading on the
LCD.

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Using a Digital Thermometer (rectum through the anus)

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

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

3. Put a probe cover over the pointed end of the thermometer. If your thermometer did not
come with a probe cover then you can use it without one.

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

5. Place your child (taking the temperature through the rectum is usually done on children)
on his stomach across a firm surface or your lap before taking his temperature.

6. Gently slide the probe of the thermometer into the rectum about a half inch. Stop
inserting the thermometer if it becomes difficult to insert. Never force the thermometer
into the rectum.

7. Continue to hold the thermometer the entire time you are taking the temperature.
Always stay with your client while taking the temperature.

8. Keep the thermometer in place until it beeps then remove the thermometer

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

1. Wash the probe of the thermometer with soap, water and rubbing alcohol when you are
done. Put the thermometer’s tip cover. Place the thermometer in its holder/container.
2. Record the reading.
3. Wash your hands.

Using a Digital Thermometer (mouth)

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

5. Place the thermometer under the client’s tongue on one side of his/her mouth. Ask
him/her to close his/her lips. (You may have to hold the thermometer specially if your
client is sick and weak enough to even hold the thermometer with his/her lips.)

6. Leave the thermometer in place until the thermometer signals it is finished. When it
beeps, it signifies that it can be removed.

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7. Remove the thermometer carefully and read the temperature on the digital display.
Clean the tip of the thermometer with a cotton ball soaked in alcohol. Put the
thermometer’s tip cover. Place the thermometer in its container.

8. Record the reading and wash your hands.

Using a Digital Thermometer (armpit)

1. Wash your hands and take the thermometer from its holder.

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

3. Inform the client that you are going to take his temperature under the armpit.

4. Place the thermometer under the client’s armpit. (You may have to hold the
thermometer specially if your client is very sick and weak that he/she cannot even hold
the thermometer with his/her armpit.)

5. Leave the thermometer in place until the thermometer signals it is finished. When the
thermometer beeps, it means that it can be removed.

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

7. Record the reading and wash your hands.

BP Apparatus

Another important measurement that you should learn to take is the blood pressure. Blood
pressure is the force of the blood pushing against the walls of the blood vessels. The heart
contracts as it pumps the blood into the arteries. When the heart is contracting, the
pressure is highest. This pressure is what we know as the systolic pressure. Now, as the
heart relaxes between each contraction, the pressure decreases. When the heart is at its
most relaxed state, the pressure is lowest. And we call this diastolic pressure. The
following steps will help you measure blood pressure accurately.

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1. Wash your hands and prepare the equipment you will use.

2. Introduce yourself and let the patient/client know the procedure to be done.

3. Sanitize the earpieces of the stethoscope with an antiseptic pad.

4. Ask your client to rest quietly. Have him/her lie down or sit on a chair whichever is more
comfortable for him/her.

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

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

7. Unroll the cuff, loosen the screw and squeeze the cuff with your hands to remove air
completely.

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

9. Find your client’s brachial pulse at the inside of the elbow. Hold the diaphragm there
and inflate the cuff until the pulse disappears. Take note of the reading and immediately
deflate the cuff. This is the client’s approximate systolic reading and is called the
palpated systolic pressure.

10. Place the stethoscope’s earpieces into your ears and place the diaphragm on the
brachial pulse.

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

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

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13. You have to continue releasing the air from the cuff. When you hear the sounds change
to something softer and faster and disappear, take note of the calibration. This is now
the diastolic pressure.

14. Deflate the cuff complete. Remove it from the arm of your client and record the reading
on the client’s chart.

15. Wipe the earpieces of the stethoscope with an antiseptic pad and place 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

paraphernalia in taking our vital signs?
________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________.

Activity :SEQUENCING PERIOD

Directions: The learners will arrange the following by using letters
A- G
Using a Digital Thermometer (armpit)
_______ 1. Place the thermometer under the client’s armpit.
_______ 2. Wash your hands and take the thermometer from its holder.

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 _______ 3. Leave the thermometer in place until the thermometer signals it is
finished. When the thermometer beeps, it means that it can be
removed.
_______ 4. Clean the probe (pointed end) of the thermometer with rubbing
alcohol or soap and then rinse it in cool water.
_______ 5. Inform the client that you are going to take his temperature under
the armpit.
_______ 6. Record the reading and wash your hands.
_______ 7. Remove the thermometer carefully and read the temperature on the
digital display. Clean the tip of the thermometer with a cotton ball
soaked in alcohol. Put the thermometer’s tip cover. Place the
thermometer in its container.

Activity :SEQUENCING PERIOD

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

BP Apparatus

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

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

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

_____ 4. Find 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 sleeves up. Have your client’s arm
from the elbow down to rest fully extended on the bed or the arm of a chair.

_____ 6. Ask your client to rest quietly. Have him/her lie down or sit on a chair whichever
is more comfortable for him/her.

_____ 7. Sanitize the earpieces of the stethoscope with an antiseptic pad.

_____ 8. Deflate the cuff complete. Remove it from the arm of your client and record the
reading on the client’s chart.

_____ 9. Introduce yourself and let the patient/client know the procedure to be done.

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

_____ 11. Unroll the cuff, loosen the screw and squeeze the cuff with your hands to
remove air completely.

_____ 12.Place 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 escape slowly until the sound of the pulse
comes back.

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

_____ 15. Wipe 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 replica (baby doll) 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

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 4. taking blood pressure

What I Have Learned

Activity: AMAZING KNOWLEDGE

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

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

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 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.
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

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Rubrics:
SCORING Students
ACCURACY (100%) CRITERIA score

Identified and demonstrated the function of 5 equipment,

tools, or paraphernalia 100

Identified and demonstrated the function of 4 equipment,

tools, or paraphernalia 90

Identified and demonstrated the function of 3 equipment,

tools, or paraphernalia 80

Identified and demonstrated the function of 2 equipment,

tools, or paraphernalia 70

Identified and demonstrated the function of 1 equipment,

tools, or paraphernalia 60

Failed to identify and demonstrate the function of any of

the given equipment, tools, or paraphernalia 50

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SUMMARY

Caregiving is a task to every Filipino. To ensure that we do the right task, we

need to equip ourselves with knowledge and expertise in using different tools,
equipment and paraphernalia in a specific job in using and operating them.

We need to be fully equipped with skills and develop our expertise in

caregiving. In view of that, we had to follow the different procedures in operating
different tools, equipment and paraphernalia for the purpose of serving others.

Through this module, learners will have the chance to respond immediately if
circumstances would occur that needs our care.

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ASSESSMENT
POST TEST

Directions: Choose the letter of your choice. Write the letter in your test notebook.

1. It measures the heat coming from the ear drum.

a. Digital thermometer c. Ear digital thermometer

b. Clinical thermometer d. BP apparatus

2. Which of the following is used in taking blood pressure?

a. Digital thermometer c. Ear digital thermometer

b. Clinical thermometer d. BP apparatus

3. Which of the tools that is also called laser thermometer?

a. Digital thermometer c. Ear digital thermometer

b. Clinical thermometer d. Infrared thermometer

4. It measures the temperature using thermal radiation emitted in the body.

a. Digital thermometer c. Ear digital thermometer

b. Clinical thermometer d. Infrared thermometer

5. Which of the following is considered as vital signs?

a. pulse rate c. albumin

b. CBC d. X-ray

6. When the heart is at its most relaxed state, the pressure ______

a. highest c. medium
b. lowest d. mid lowest

7. A kind of pressure when the heart is at its most relaxed state.

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 a. systolic pressure c. diastolic pressure
b. crystolic pressure d. systematic pressure

8. The force of the blood pushing against the walls of the blood vessels.

a. blood pressure c. temperature

b. pulse rate d. respiratory rate

9. The type of blood pressure when the heart contracting the pressure is highest.

a. systolic pressure c. diastolic pressure

b. hystolic pressure d. calistolic pressure

10. A kind of thermometer which is inserted into the rectum.

a. Digital thermometer c. Ear digital thermometer

b. Clinical thermometer d. Infrared thermometer

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KEY ANSWER
Pre Test Post Test

1. B 1. C
2. B 2. D
3. A 3. D
4. C 4. D
5. B 5. A
6. A 6. B
7. D 7. C
8. C 8. A
9. A 9. A
10. C 10. B

What I know SEQUENCING

Pre Test
1. D 1. H
1. True 2. A 2, K
2. False 3. E 3. A
3. False 4. B 4. I
4. True 5. C 5. F
5. False 6. G 6. D
6. True 7. F 7. C
7. True 8. N
8. True 9. B
9. False 10, E
10. True 11. G
12. J
13. L

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