HOME VISIT

• Is a PROFESSIONAL contact between PHN & the family
• The services provided is an extension of the Health Service Agency (Health Center)

OBJECTIVES OF HOME VISIT

• Assessment
• Nursing Care
• Treatment
• Health Education
• Referral (if care fails)

PRIORITIES (IN THE CARE): TO PREVENT CROSS CONTAMINATION

1. Newborn
2. Post partum
3. Pregnant mothers
4. Morbid cases

• The families need the assistance of the health center that’s why home visit was done to the family
• The person who makes the home visit is rendering services on behalf of the health center

PHASES OF HOME VISIT:

1. Planning
• Starts at the health center
• Makes a study on the status of the family
• Statement of the problem
• Formation of objective
2. Socialization
• first activity is to establish rapport & to gain the trust of the family
3. Activity
• Intervention/Professional Phase
• Opportunity to provide or extend health services
• Standard Role of the Nurse: Independent, Dependent andInterdependent
• To be effective, come in complete uniform (also bring a long umbrella with pointed end which serve as protection)
4. Summarization
• ability to put into record & report (orally) about the outcome of the activity

PUBLIC HEALTH BAG:

• Indispensable tool that should be organize to save time & effort and to prevent cross infection & contamination.

GUIDING PRINCIPLES IN THE USE OF PUBLIC HEALTH BAG:

• Content
• Should be prepared by the one who will make home visit Note: BP Apparatus is kept separately from PHN bag
• Cleaning
• The inner part of the bag should be clean & sterile
• Should be done every after-home visit
• Never endorse the bag
• Contamination
• The less one opens the bag, the lesser chance of contamination
• In general, the bag is open 3x:
• Putting out materials for hand washing
• Putting out materials used for nursing care
• Returning all what have been used
• Care of Communicable Case(s)
• should be disinfected with the use of 70% isopropyl alcohol or Lysol which should be done at the health center and not at home