Home Nursing Techniques; Signs & Symptoms of Illnesses & Diseases

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?
    As being a home nursing, I will apply the proper techniques like bathing the patient, making the occupied bed for the patient, and also checking the vital signs of the patient. Those are just some of the techniques that I can apply to my patients to make them feel comfortable as a Home nurse.  

2.  Why should the home nurse monitor the vital signs of the patient?
    One way of taking care of your patients, monitoring the vital signs of the patient. Vital signs like temperature, pulse rate, respiratory rate, and blood pressure rate. Monitoring the vital signs of the patient is important because in that way you will know if the patient is starting to heal or if he/she needs imporatnt medication from the doctor.

3.  How do you take the body temperature, pulse rate, respiratory rate and blood pressure of the patient?
    BODY TEMPERATURE
-Using the thermometer, you can monitor the temperature of the patient. It is the most accurate way to determine whether the patient has high fever, or has a normal body temperature
    PULSE RATE 
-Using the tip of your two finger by putting it in your wrist, you can monitor the heartbeat of your patient. Taking the pulse rate in the wrist is one of the convenient way to monitor the pulse rate of the patient.
    RESPIRATORY RATE
-Using the stethoscope, you can check and monitor the respiratory rate of your patient.

4.  What are some practices that the home nurse must follow that will promote comfort to the patient?
-There are so many ways how to lessen and easing the patient's discomfort. Ways like changing the position of the patient, helping the patient to lie down or sit up, supporting the patient with pillow, attending to his/her personal needs, helping him/her to dress up. Those are just some ways to make the patient comfortable and to lessen their discomforts.

5.  How will you differentiate signs from symptoms of illnesses and diseases?
     The signs, those are just what the doctors see when your about to have a illness or sickness. Symptoms, they say that symptoms are just experiences for the patients who already experiences illness and diseases.

6.  If you are the doctor, what will be your basis in giving the diagnosis for your patient?
    As a doctor , before giving the patient their proper diagnose you must check first their health. Because being a doctor you mustn't give an diagnose to a patient without checking his/her health.