Home care for patients

23 July 2018, 07:12 | Health 
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A fairly popular service is to call a nurse at home. This applies not only to megacities, but also to rural areas. It happens that in case of illness the patient does not always want to go to the hospital or regularly visit a polyclinic for injections. Why stand in long lines, wait for a doctor, if you can use the services of a nurse at home? So it will be much more comfortable and convenient.

What can a nurse do at home?.

Nursing care for loved ones involves the following manipulations:.

• hygienic care if the patient is recumbent;.

• caring for a patient who is after a stroke;.

• caring for a patient with cancer;.

• assistance with acute intoxication;.

• collection of analyzes, which are then examined in the laboratory;.

• installation of peripheral catheters, enemas (preventive, medical);.

• patient bandaging;.

• treatment of frostbite, burns, wounds, seams, which were imposed earlier;.

• purchase of all necessary medicines;.

• installation of droppers;.

• different injections.

Droppers at home This manipulation is easy to do at home. What is a dropper at home - its types and purposes can be told in detail by the employee.

During the dropper, the medicine enters the human circulatory system. Each drug is given, given a certain rate.

Only a highly qualified nurse can put drippers at home. After all, there are some risks. A nurse must stay close to the patient for as long as there is a dropper. She initially studies the patient's medical history, its features and observes the patient's condition.

Staff Rules There are certain rules that a nurse must adhere to:.

• While the medication is pouring in, the nurse should be near the patient. It is important to monitor its condition. In the case of loss of consciousness or a sharp deterioration in the state of health, it is necessary to suspend the process. It is necessary to know the pressure and pulse rate, and after that it is up to you to decide how to proceed;.

• the nurse's hands should be covered with sterile gloves;.

• the skin where the injection will be performed is treated with an antiseptic drug.

This service is provided usually in modern clinics, where there is a dispatch center, which operates around the clock. The employee arrives at the specified place at the time that was agreed with the client. A nurse always has the necessary equipment. All tools, as well as the appearance of the employee meets the requirements that were presented by the Sanitary and Epidemiological Station.

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