Professional Documents
Culture Documents
NURSE CONTACT
Family-Nurse Contacts
• Clinic Visit
• Home Visit
• Group Conference
• Telephone
• Written Communication
Clinic Visit
Pre-consultation
conference
– Pre-clinic lecture is
usually conducted
prior to the admission
of patients, which is
one way of providing
health education
Clinic Visit
III. Triaging
1.Manage program-based cases
2.Refer all non-program based cases to the
physician
3.Provide 1st aid tx. To emergency cases
and refer when necessary
Clinic Visit
• Assessment
• Nursing care
• Treatment
• Health education
– Information
– Education (3 key element – AKS) –
change within the individual
• Referral (if care fails)
– BHS – RHU – MHO – PHO – RHO –
National Agencies – Specialized
Agencies
HOME VISIT
• Pre-Visit Phase
– Determine the family’s willingness
– Set an appointment with them
– Formulate plan for the home visit
• Starts at the health center
• Makes a study on the status of the family
• Statement of the problem
• Formulation of objective
Phases of Home Visit
• In-Home Phase
– Initiation
• Socialization -
– Implementation
• Activity –
• Provide or extend health services
• Perform standard role of the nurse
– Termination
• Post-Visit Phase (Summarization)
– Documentation
– Ability to put into record and report about the outcome of the
activity
GROUP
CONFERENCE
• opportunities to learn about group,
organizational and social dynamics; the
exercise of authority and power; the interplay
between tradition, innovation and change;
and the relationship of organizations to their
social, political and economic environments
• a useful way of improving
understanding and relationships
Telephone calls
2. Health information
share information about a health issue
communication is initiated for purposes
of enhancing caller ability to self-manage
their health issues
WRITTEN
COMMUNICATION
Health services need to keep good written records of the
care given to patients/clients for three main reasons:
1. Cleanliness
2. Sterilization
3. Improvisation
4. Maintenance
5. Restocking
6. Economy of time, material and energy
Cleanliness
• barrier(newspaper)
• Hand washing
• Once hands are washed the
sequence of using bag will be from
the sterile to less clean pockets
• Should not keep any personal
items
Sterilization
PROCEDURE
The following are steps in performing bag
technique and rationale for each action:
Rationale: To prevent
4. Wash hands using soap
infection from the care
and water, wipe to dry.
provider to the client.