BAG TECHNIQUES INTODUCTION: ‘The major aim of the heath care services in the home is to help peopl with their health problems and works with them towards keeping the fimily healthy, When periomming home visit the conmmunity health nurses should carry the community health bag ie., general nursing kit bag. MEANING COMMUNITY: A group of species who reside in a designated geographical area and who share common interest or bonds, BAG Itis a flexible, or dilited sac or pouch designed to comain needed artick: to carry fiom one place to other pice to do the health rebated services to the people. DEFINITION; BAG TECHNIQUE: Bag is a vehick: for carrying the materials and equipments needed during home visit to attend family school and fictory heath care needs. The bag shoul! be made of strong but light weight matcrials. PURPOSE: To cary out nursing procedure in home. 2.To camied the necessary articles the bags. To performing minor dressing To conduet delivery in emergency situations, ‘To do the assessement of the different community people like newbom, inant, preschool, schook-goingadolescence and adults ‘To do card care for the newborn chil, To do cooking demonstrations in the community setup 10, To do the collection and transportation of sampk, 1. To treat minor ailments, 12. To practice the family planing services.13, To eheck the antenatal and post natal assessment, 14, To detect the muritional deficiency 15. To provide the beaks eduction to the community. COMPARTMENTS OF BAG: i Outer compartment, ii, Front compartment iii, Inner compartment. ix. Lower compartment, PRINCIPLES Canliness Hand washing Ckan of bag Protecting, and taking care of bag. . Keep the instruments after sterilization Protect the bag away from the contami Keep the bag safety from ehikiren . Keep the bag away fiom the animals and others. ‘Avoid the cross infection fiom the pkice 10. Keep the bag ahvays upper surface area 11. Handling the tag very essentially 12, Remove the unnecessary articles from the bag. PROCEDUR' & Sekt the a work area where the bag may be set without danger being contaminated.e.g., chapoy, verandah. Place the bag on a clean surface or pizce of news paper or plstic sheet, Prepare a clean surfice and upper surfice for phcing tbe equipment to be wed Afier spreading the newspaper, keep the bag atthe comer of the paper, If your going to do the procedure keep the bag in fll sice newspaper. Otherwise mike half size newspaper keep the bag above that and carry out other than bag technique progedure, Remove the inner compariment half-way fk backside, To keep it ready to touch the immer compartment afier hand washing procedure. Remove the necessary article form front compartment. Remove the hand washing articks from lower compartment for hand washing procedure, Before going to do hand washing check the bag technique area arranged according to the sequence way of procedure,Take the hand washing. artis go-to hand Washing place, Wash the hands under poured water or tap water. Wash the hands with bacteriostatic soap if availible. After hands washing . open the bag and take only needed articles from the bag and close the bag in half way, Don't the disphiy the bag fully to oufer environment because it cross infection fom the home. Don’t open the bag inner compartment unnecessary. Give the musing procedure as indicated according to the need tat is shown during a vit and by records. When the procedure over, plicing the soiled swabs inside the paper bag for disposable by buming orany other suitable method, Affer the procedure, wash ands with soap and water. Retum artickss 10 the bag- use a cotton swab moistened with spirit and wipe outside of used bottles. and other articles taken ffom the amer compartment Other instrument lke dressing kit, delivery kit etc. wash and boil al the instruments possible collect itand take back to health centre for disinfection. ‘® Check all the articles from inner compartment repkeed with clean technique or not. Close the bagtimer compartment) Go to hand washing area, Wash the habds . Bring the hands washing articles near to the bag aid replace i Close the bag (Jo Replace the articles from front compartment. Record the procedure. Take all the articles brought to the home visit Camry the bag in left shoukler, Fold the used newspaper or plastic sheet with exposed side innermost and keep it in the outside pocket of the bag + to keep a wateb it till next visit CARE OF THE BAG In order to keep the nursing bag in readiness for use al all times, } ‘The nurse should empty the contents and clan the bug at kast once a week or more often depending. on hom much it is used. Wash the bag with soap and water Dry it in the sun light While emptying the contents, check the expendable items lke gloves, catheter, thermometer ,ghss anicies tor being broken or spoiled. Afer drying, the bag shoukl be re-cquipped with articles, drug and sterile dressing. and other articles. Nowdays, a mumber of disposable equipments,needed 10 perform certain simple nursing vaikible in the markets,> Uses the disposable tems according to the uses, requirements and precausions.A any tearing of the bag, to stich it properly fbr ready to use all times, > Check the bag daily for proper care of the bap. CARE OF EQUIPMENTS 4 Bag: Leather bag to be washed with soap and waier. 4 Camas bag to be washed and dried. 4% Rubber goods: steriized by boiling. for 10 mimes; but disposable gloves are disposed by sanitary method. ‘Thermometer: Soked in antiseptic Jotion Glass bottles: Sterilized in boiled water. Enamelor steel items: 20 minutes boiling required Cond ligature: Pre-sierlized pack is avaible; otherwise thread is boiled for 20minutes; it js handled with sterile forceps and scrubbed hands, Eye drop: Opened ones are used within 10 days; ter to be discarded and a new one is to be procured. Dry dressing and swabs: Autoclwved material is eared and used ones are disposed by buming. Instruments: Sterilization produce kamt is followe. Weighing much Other instrument: BP apparatus foctoscope and stethoscope is handled properly. A-V aids materials: Cover with pkistic sheet or polythene cover, PRECAUTIONS: Check the bag before kaving for home visit No meddling of the content without washing hands. Open only when required. Bag should be kept at the proper phice. . Bag shoukl be thoroughly ekaned, Ii five ftom dustand disinfected. . Personal items should not kept in the bag. . Hts essential to change the bag fiom time to time, Soiled and diny things should be properly disinfected. 10. Work dane shoukd be recorded in the family fokler or daily register.