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Home care made easy

Home nusring is becoming increasingly popular as costs associated with institutional care spiral foreve upwards.

With the correct equpipment, home nursing can become a more manageable task. 

Sage Health Solutions have been supplying specialised equipment and consumables to the health and beautty industries for many years, and this experience is now available to those practising home care.

There are 3 ‘rights’ always to be kept in mind when giving medicines:

RIGHT MEDICATION: RIGHT AMOUNT and RIGHT TIME
• Look at the label on the bottle or container
• Measure the amount correctly and put it into a small glass to prevent spills
• Medicines are given at regular times, before the effect of the previous dose wears off and before the symptom recurs

Patients experience a wide range of symptoms, some due to their disease, others caused by it treatment. Pain is one of the most distressing symptoms in palliative care, other distressing symptoms are:

Helpless and weak patients may like to;

Sit out of bed in a chair or wheelchair

Get out of bed to use the commode

And need to get in and out of a car.

If your patient is not too tired, this may be an ideal time to walk him to the toilet.

Supported in a sitting position, the patient swings his legs over the side of the bed.

Make the sick patient’s room as cheerful as possible. (With the assistance of SAGE HEALTH SOLUTIONS)

He may have to lie there all day, and boredom and despondency can soon settle in.

Avoid leaving him or her on his own for too long. Loneliness can be can be the most dressing aspect for the bedridden.

Place a table or similar near the bed for medicines, drinking water and perhaps a small bell he can ring if he needs attention, or a telephone. Give him a radio, or TV set, and a supply of newspapers, books or magazines.

The Bed