I Set Fires To Feel Joy

Making the Bed & Bathing the Patient

Thursday, February 21, 2013, 5:29 PM

Making a Bed
1. Why do we need to know how to make an unoccupied and occupied bed?

We need to know how to make an unoccupied and occupied bed so that when our patients already feel uncomfortable about their sheets or pillowcases, we can easily change them easily.

2. How does making a bed help in the fast recovery of our patient?

Of course the sheets can be infected with germs that can affect the recovery of the patient. So we need to change the sheets regularly so that we will be able to avoid more infection on the patient. If we have clean and neat sheets, we will be able to help the patient speed up his or her recovery.

3. As a good home nurse, how will you be able to render your services to your patient through bed making?

Bed making can help speed up the recovery of the patient since it is the bed where they spend most of their time, and they need to be comfortable when lying in the bed. We also need to make sure that the bed sheets are clean so that they would not be infected by the germs of the soiled sheets.

Bathing the Patient
1. Why do you need to give a bath to the patient?

To cleanse and refresh the patient. It can also help to remove certain wastes from the body of the patient and it can also serve as an exercise to the patient when the patient lies down too much.

2. What are the materials needed for bed bath or sponge bath?

A clean towel, rubbing alcohol, and water. If the patient wants to urinate, we can use the bedpan.

3. What’s the importance of using a urinal or bedpan?

So that the patient will not put effort anymore into going to the restroom, but just be in bed and use the bedpan.

4. What do you mean by back rub?

A back rub is given to refresh the patient. It is to cleanse the patient from dirt as well.

5. How do you differentiate cold compress from hot compress?

Just by the name itself, a cold compress is soaked in cold water while the hot compress is soaked in hot water.

Techniques of being a Home Nurse ☺

Monday, February 11, 2013, 5:29 PM

1. If you are a good home nurse, what are the various home nursing techniques that you need to apply that will make the patient feel comfortable and speed up the recovery?

2. Why should the home nurse monitor the vital signs of the patient?

3. How do you take the body temperature, pulse rate, respiratory rate and blood pressure of the patient?

4. What are some practices that the home nurse must follow that will
promote comfort to the patient?

5. How will you differentiate signs from symptoms of illnesses and
diseases?

6. If you are the doctor, what will be your basis in giving the diagnosis for your patient?

Medicine ☺

5:25 PM

Both of my parents finished BS Nursing when they were in college. My father even had a masteral degree for that. So obviously, I grew up in a place where almost everyone is health conscious. I've learned from the topic that you can get more responsible if you become a home nurse. You have to get the right dosage of medicine, at the right time, and of course, to the right patient.

Administering medicine to the patient is never easy. One wrong dosage or route can cause the patient's life. I really don't pay attention when my parents give me medicine, because all the while I thought that whatever dosage you might take, it would help you get better. Until I knew that it wasn't. The dosage depends on how severe your case is. You could die of under dose or overdose! Isn't that scary?!

Medicine helps the patient's recovery, BIGTIME. Medicines are created to aid to the patient's speedy recovery right? So as a Home Nurse, who have to make the most out of the medicines that you give to your patient. The effects of your medicine will be perfect if you know the dosage very well and how to administer it to your patient. For me, when you become a home nurse, there is one big rule. BE RESPONSIBLE.

Labels: home nursing, insights, medicine

Home Nursing: An Introduction

Thursday, January 31, 2013, 5:32 PM

Home nursing is important because we can take care of our relatives without the expense of the hospital. The patient will also feel our love more because we are the ones attending to his/her need as well. ☺

Taking care of a person is easier said than done. I was like, "Uh, I can do that.' But when I read about the true mechanics of home nursing, I was like..........

I CAN'T EVEN.

It was more complicated than I originally thought!! With all the processes and training a home nurse would undergo.

But, learning about home nursing was useful for me. I have a sick relative at home, and I learned some techniques on how to take care of her.

The Recycle Project ☺

Monday, January 21, 2013, 5:23 PM

For our 3rd quarter project, we were asked to create useful things out of recycled materials. We were very excited yet challenged to do those products within a short period of time. But of course, we accepted the pressure. ;)

So here are the products that we accomplished :D

This is a tetra pouch bag. It was simply made out of used tetra pouches (cleaned, of course), excess cloths and a simple zipper. It is just very simple to do since we had a background in sewing, and the materials we used can be found in our surroundings. We also had fun doing it. ☺

This is a simple candle lantern. It is made out of a used jar, and the designs are just made out of glue and glitters. We used glue of the design so that the light from the candle inside the jar would be visible with the translucent design. All you need to provide is the candle which you would put inside the jar. It is very easy to do and very useful since we experience brownouts in our city. ☺

This is an organizer. It is made out of Chinitos rice boxes, and the designs and made of straws which are cut and formed into hexagonal patterns. There are 4 rice boxes stocked together to form this organizer. I really had fun doing the hexagonal patterns out of straws ☺

Simple yet useful outputs! Try and make your own ☺

Labels: recycle

Merci!

Thursday, January 17, 2013, 5:36 PM

The words thank you are very essential to a person. We might forget to say it to people sometimes, but still, from the heart we say thank you to people who changed my life for the better.

For TLE 2, we were asked to create a thank you card for our parents.I thought it would me a piece of cake.I can do that within an hour, come on. But the shock of the day came... we had to do a pop-up card. My reaction was like:

But then I got to my senses. I had to do it. So I told myself..... BRING IT ON.

I was completely clueless on how to do a pop-up card. I mean, how do you make a thing pop out using paper? But then, Google was my best friend. With all the hard work and perseverance, I made the card! Yaay! My hard work really paid off :3

Paper, Glue, Scissors.

Saturday, December 8, 2012, 12:25 AM

I, myself, admit that I am no good in arts. I am never good in creating even shapes, or drawing figures that could amaze people. But then our TLE class required us to do so. I was scared at the beginning because I knew I was no good at these things. Cutting shapes and forming them into something amazing wasn't really my thing.

We started with covering our drawing books. I must say it was the funnest part because we were the one in-charge of what our drawing book should look like.

Third plate, name designing. I find it fun, since all I did was doodle stuff and make my name look presentable. Fun fun fun. :D

Fourth plate was where all the 'true' art started. We were asked to cut rectangles and form it into something creative. What I did was build sort of buildings in the page. It was easy, since it was only a rectangle. But that was just the beginning... We also cut squares. The true challenge started with the circle. We weren't allowed to trace a circle, but we had to cut a perfect one. So Ma'am Gelina taught us how to do it with just folding a square several times. It was confusing at the beginning, but with some practice, we got the hang of it. Same goes with the 4, 5 and 8 pointed star. Those were my favorites since I got it fast and I seemed pretty amazed on how easy those stars and can be formed.

The fifth plate was confusing. It was about expanding shapes and forms. We got confused because whenever we cut and try to expand it, the paper would get tangled, and sometimes rip off (which was very annoying.) But then of course, with perseverance, we got it. :D

This arts thing is a challenge for me, and I am ready to accept it.

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