What does the term «hygienic conditions» mean? As a matter of fact it implies just light, warmth, pure air, healthy food, harmless drinking water, cleanliness...
Florence Nightingale
Goal: to get a notion about the work of a nurse in charge; patient?s personal hygiene (rules of changing the clothes); to master skills. Knowledge objectives:
► to know the arrangement and the equipment of the medical department; the organization of a nursing station; concept of health care regimens at the department; concept of sanitary and epidemiological regimens; duties of a junior nurse in a ward and at the department; rules of the preparation of chloric disinfectant solutions; rules of bed-clothes and linen change.
Skill objectives:
► to develop practical skills: change of bed-clothes and linen. Subject-matter:
1) the arrangement of medical department;
2) health-care regimens;
3) work of a nurse in a ward;
4) personal hygiene of a patient (change of linen);
5) practical skills.
Clinical course and outcome greatly depend on the setting where the patient stays. Keeping hygienic standards in the wards, comfortable beds, proper food of high quality, are necessary for the effective treatment.
A junior nurse plays one of the important roles in the maintenance of rules and favourable conditions in wards.
THE EQUIPMENT OF THERAPEUTICAL DEPARTMENT
Therapeutical department of a hospital includes:
1) wards for patients;
2) sanitary block (a bath, a shower, a lavatory room);
3) pantry for food distribution and a canteen for patients;
4) procedure rooms;
5) special procedure rooms (a special room for enema procedures);
6) doctor's consulting rooms, an office of the head of the department;
7) room for keeping clean body linen and bed-clothes. The wards are provided with beds, bedside-tables, chairs, a fridge, one common table.