[1] BAG TECHNIQUE

Question 1

A family-nurse contact allows the health worker to assess the home and family situations in order to provide the necessary nursing care and health related acitivites

Answer 1

Home Visit

Question 2

A professional face to face contact made by a public health nurse to the patient or the family to provide health care services

Answer 2

Home Visit

Question 3

Purposes of Home Visits

1. To give nursing care to the sick, ____, and teach them regarding subsequent care
2. To assess the ____ of the patient and their family
3. To give ____
4. To establish ____
5. To make use of the ____ and promote utilization of ____

Answer 3

(1) postpartum mother and newborn
(2) living condition
(3) health teachings
(4) close relationships
(5) inter-referral system / community service

Question 4

Principles of Home Visits

• Must have ____
• Planning should make use of all ____
• Give priority to the ____
• Should involve the ____ in planning and delivery of care
• Plan should be ____

Answer 4

(1) purpose or objective
(2) available info about the patient and their family
(3) essential needs
(4) individual and family
(5) flexible

Question 5

Steps in Conducting Home Visits

1. ____
2. State the ____
3. ____ the patient and determine the ____
4. Put the bag in ____ then proceed to perform the ____
5. Perform the ____ needed and give ____
6. Record all ____
7. Make appointment for a ____

Answer 5

(1) Greet the patient and introduce yourself
(2) purpose of the visit
(3) Observe / health needs
(4) a convenient place / bag technique
(5) nursing care / health teachings
(6) important data, observation, and care rendered
(7) return home visit

Question 6

An essential and indispensable equipment of PHN which they have to carry along during home visits containing articles necessary for giving care

Answer 6

Public Health Bag

Question 7

A tool by which the nurse during her visit will be able to perform nursing procedure with ease and deftness

Answer 7

Bag Technique

Question 8

Purposes of Bag Technique

• To minimize if not to prevent (1) ____
• To work (2) ____

Answer 8

(1) spread of infection
(2) efficiently and rapidly

Question 9

Principles in the Use of the Bag

1. Should contain ____
2. The bag and its contents should be ____ as often as possible
3. Supplies ____
4. Bag and its contents should be ____
5. Consider the bag and its contents ____ while articles belonging to the patient as ____
6. Arrangement of the contants should be the ____
7. Do ____ as frequently as the situation calls for
8. When used for a CD case should be ____ before keeping and re-using

Answer 9

(1) articles, supplies, and equipment for emergency needs
(2) cleaned
(3) replaced and ready for use at any time
(4) well protected from contact with any articles in the home of patients
(5) clean and sterile / dirty and contaminated
(6) one most convenient to the user
(7) handwashing
(8) thoroughly cleansed and disinfected

Question 10

Contents of the Bag

Front of the bag left to right

Answer 10

Thermometer (digital), penlight, tape measure

Question 11

Contents of the Bag

On the right rear of the bag

Answer 11

Medicine dropper

Question 12

Contents of the Bag

On the left rear end

Answer 12

Medicine glass, baby scale, bandage scissor

Question 13

Contents of the Bag

Back of the bag left to right

Answer 13

70% alcohol, aromatic spirit of ammonia, liquid soap, cotton containers (wet & dry), and betadine

Question 14

Contents of the Bag

Center of the bag

Answer 14

Hemostat, forcep, mayo scissor, sterile dressing (OS & CB), roller bandage, syringe and needles in container, cotton applicator, micropore (in plastic), cord clamp, face mask (in plastic), sterile gloves, clean gloves, rubber section, breast pump, cotton pledgets, tongue depressor, kidney basin, medicine tray, ice bag/hot water bag

Question 15

Contents of the Bag

On top pile center of bag

Answer 15

Hand towel (in plastic), soap in soap dish (in plastic), plastic apron, plastic, manila paper

Question 16

Contents of the Bag

• ____ in back pocket of bag
• ____ carried separately
• ____ (preferably black)

Answer 16

• Paper waste bag
• BP apparatus
• Umbrella

Question 17

Steps in Performing Bag Technique (1-7)

1. After entering patient’s home, take out ____. Clean side must be out and folder part touching the table
2. Lay paper on flat surface of either ____
3. Place bag at ____ to perform interventions
4. Open bag and take out ____
5. Wash hands using ____
6. Take out the ____ from the bag and put it on observing proper technique
7. Remove from bag all the ____

Answer 17

(1) newspaper/manila paper/ plastic cover
(2) table, chest or box, if non use floor
(3) a place most convenient for the nurse
(4) towel and soap in soap dish and waste paper bag
(5) running water, pouring method or perform alcohol rub
(6) apron
(7) necessary articles needed for the specific care

Question 18

Steps in Performing Bag Technique cont’ (8-14)

8. ____
9. Proceed in peforming the ____
10. After giving the treatment, ____, discard properly the ____, and perform ____
11. Open the bag and ____. Close the back w/o locking it
12. Remove apron, folding it away from the person, the ____
13. ____, place it inside the bag and close the bag
14. Take the ____ and have a talk with the patient/relative. Write down all the ____. Provide ____.

Answer 18

(8) Close bag without locking it
(9) necessary nursing care treatment
(10) clean all things that were used / receptacle / handwashing
(11) return all the things that were used in proper placed after cleaning them
(12) soiled side in and the clean side out
(13) Fold the lining
(14) record / necessary data / health teaching

Note: the paper and plastic lining should be discarded after use