CHAPTER 4 (Home care and childbearing and child rearing family)

Home care

Is scared of persons in their homes provided by employees of a certified home health care or community healthcare agency

Direct and indirect care

The care at home may include: (2)

Direct care

In which a nurse remains in continual attendance or visits frequently and actually administer care

Indirect care

In which a nurse plans and supervises care given by others such as home care assistance

Skilled home nursing care

Nursing care is considered ____________________ is it contain includes primary healthcare provider, prescribe procedures such as dressing, changes, administration of vindication health, teaching or observation of a person or child progress or status through with such activities as monitoring, vital signs or fetal heart rate (FHR)

Resources

Reference not only to material object, (such as Hospital bed, oxygen fetal monitor) but also whether a family is ready to deal with the chronic stress of home care

1. Maintain Skin Integrity

2. Promote elimination

3. Ensure bedrest

4. Teach monitoring of vital sign

5. Teach self monitoring of uterine height, contractions, and fetal heart rate

The five health maintenance:

1. Explain advances in technology

2. Provide health teaching

3. Provide for safe medicine administration

4. Provide advocate, nutrition and hydration

5. Home enteral nutrition

6. total parenteral nutrition

7. Teach self monitoring by serum or urine testing

8. Manage Pain

Give the eighth health intervention: