PN1006- Session 5 PP (Personal Care) Latest Exam
How might hygiene affect a person?
Personal hygiene affects a person's comfort, safety and psychosocial well-being.
What influences hygiene practices?
Hygiene practices are influenced by a range of personal social and cultural factors.
What is related to nursing care and hygiene?
Therapeutic communication skills establish a caring therapeutic relationship while
providing care
The patient can be observed and interventions delivered while providing personal
hygiene.
-Independence is encouraged and promoted .
-Privacyisensured,respectisconveyed,and the patient's physical comfort is fostered.
What does hygiene support and maintain?
- Supports physical and mental health
- Maintains skin integrity
What is to be remembered when performing hygiene on a patient?
- Discuss health-related concerns
- Ensure privacy
- Discuss patient concerns
- Perform physical assessment
What are the functions of intact skin?
- Defense against infection
- Sensory perception
- Regulation of body temperature
What are benefits of bathing?
, -Cleansing the skin
- Improves circulation
- Preserves ROM
- Reduces offensive body odors
- Promotes a sense of self-worth
How can you provide patient-centered care when providing hygiene care to the resident
?
- Take the time to communicate with the resident to identify individualized and culturally
specific preferences to provide care.
- Before beginning any hygiene care activity, describe the care to the resident and
honor his/her preference.
- Providing care that includes individualized preferences promotes person-directed
care.
- When possible, request that friends/family bring in appropriate hygiene soaps, oils and
creams not available in the health care setting.
- Employ a calm and gentle manner, and a reassuring tone of voice.
What are safety measures while performing hygiene on patients?
- Some patients lack the physical energy or functional status to perform self-care and
are temporarily dependent on others to enhance the healing and recovery process.
- Patients should not be left alone because there is an increased risk for falls.
- If unable to engage the patient, allow the family or significant other to help.
- Help the patient and family realize that a full bath 3 times a week might be adequate for
many older patients.
What is important to assess while performing hygiene on a patient?
Bathing is also a way to examine the skin for common skin conditions or pressure points
that can lead to pressure ulcers.
What are the causes of pressure ulcers?
incontinence
friction and shear
immobility
How might hygiene affect a person?
Personal hygiene affects a person's comfort, safety and psychosocial well-being.
What influences hygiene practices?
Hygiene practices are influenced by a range of personal social and cultural factors.
What is related to nursing care and hygiene?
Therapeutic communication skills establish a caring therapeutic relationship while
providing care
The patient can be observed and interventions delivered while providing personal
hygiene.
-Independence is encouraged and promoted .
-Privacyisensured,respectisconveyed,and the patient's physical comfort is fostered.
What does hygiene support and maintain?
- Supports physical and mental health
- Maintains skin integrity
What is to be remembered when performing hygiene on a patient?
- Discuss health-related concerns
- Ensure privacy
- Discuss patient concerns
- Perform physical assessment
What are the functions of intact skin?
- Defense against infection
- Sensory perception
- Regulation of body temperature
What are benefits of bathing?
, -Cleansing the skin
- Improves circulation
- Preserves ROM
- Reduces offensive body odors
- Promotes a sense of self-worth
How can you provide patient-centered care when providing hygiene care to the resident
?
- Take the time to communicate with the resident to identify individualized and culturally
specific preferences to provide care.
- Before beginning any hygiene care activity, describe the care to the resident and
honor his/her preference.
- Providing care that includes individualized preferences promotes person-directed
care.
- When possible, request that friends/family bring in appropriate hygiene soaps, oils and
creams not available in the health care setting.
- Employ a calm and gentle manner, and a reassuring tone of voice.
What are safety measures while performing hygiene on patients?
- Some patients lack the physical energy or functional status to perform self-care and
are temporarily dependent on others to enhance the healing and recovery process.
- Patients should not be left alone because there is an increased risk for falls.
- If unable to engage the patient, allow the family or significant other to help.
- Help the patient and family realize that a full bath 3 times a week might be adequate for
many older patients.
What is important to assess while performing hygiene on a patient?
Bathing is also a way to examine the skin for common skin conditions or pressure points
that can lead to pressure ulcers.
What are the causes of pressure ulcers?
incontinence
friction and shear
immobility
