The document discusses the bag technique used by nurses during home visits. The bag technique uses a bag that contains necessary supplies to perform nursing procedures efficiently during visits. It allows nurses to work in a sanitary manner and prevent the spread of infections. The bag should be cleaned regularly and properly stocked. When using the bag technique, nurses should identify a clean work area, wash hands, remove needed supplies, and dispose of waste properly. The overall goal is to provide effective nursing care to clients in their homes while maintaining sanitation.

1. Bag technique

2. Introduction
Home visiting :- A home visit is one of the
essential parts of the community health
services because most of the people are
found in a home.
Home visit fulfils the needs of individual,
family and community in general for nursing
service and health counseling.

3. Definition
Bag technique a tool by
which the nurse, during
her visit will enable her
to perform a nursing
procedure with ease and
deftness, to save time
and effort, with the end
view of rendering
effective nursing care to
• Bag technique a tool by which the nurse,
during her visit will enable her to perform a
nursing procedure with ease and deftness, to
save time and effort, with the end view of
rendering effective nursing care to clients.

4. Purposes
• To find out needs of individual, family and community
in relation to health, socio- economic and cultural
aspects.
• To provide domiciliary midwifery as care for pregnant,
delivery, and puerperal mother and infant.
• To give care to the sick, to a postpartum mother and her
newborn with the view teach a responsible family
member to give subsequent care.
• To assess the living condition of the patient and his
family and their health practices in order to provide the
appropriate health teachings.
• To provide basic health services for minor ailments.
(i.e. injury, boils, abrasions)

5. Cont….
• To provide counseling on family planning,
immunization, nutrition.
• To give health teaching regarding the prevention and
control of diseases.
• To establish a close relationship between the nurses
and the public for promotion of health.
• To make use of an inter-referral system and to
promote the utilization of community services. Steps
of home visiting Home visit refers to meeting the
health needs of people at doorsteps

6. •Objective

7. Principles
• Prevention of contamination
• Performing the bag technique will minimize, if
not, prevent the spread of any infection.
• It saves time and effort in the performance of
nursing procedures.

8. Cont ….
• The bag technique can be performed in a variety of
ways depending on the agency’s policy, the home
situation.
• Protection of the caregiver is very important during
to home visit.
• Make articles readily accessible
• Make follow-up care.

9. •Contains of community
bag

10. • Indication

11. Important points
The bag should contain all the necessary articles, supplies
and equipment that will be used to answer the emergency
needs.
The bag and its contents should be cleaned very often, the
supplies replaced and ready for use anytime.
The bag and its contents should be well protected from
contact with any article in the patient’s home.
Consider the bag and its contents clean and sterile, while
articles that belong to the patients as dirty and contaminated.

12. Cont ….
Ensure that the hands are washed with soap and water
before removing anything from the bag.
The arrangement of the contents of the bag should be the
one most convenient to the user, to facilitate efficiency and
avoid confusion.
Restock the bag daily with drugs, dressing and other
equipments used. Avoid too many or too less supplies for
smooth functioning.
Wash the towel and dry so that it is ready for following use

13. Hand washing

14. Steps of hand washing

15. Procedure
• Open the bag, take the linen or plastic lining
and spread over work field. The paper lining
clean side out (folded part out).
• Place the bag on the table or any flat surface
lined with paper lining, clean side out (folded
part touching the table). Put bag’s handles or
straps beneath the bag.

16. Cont….
• Take out hand towel, soap dish, and apron and place
them at one corner of the work area (within the
confines of the plastic lining).
• Place waste bag outside of work area.
• Ask for a basin of water if faucet is not available.
Place these outside the work area.
• Do hand washing. Wipe, dry with towel. Leave the
plastic wrappers of the towel in soap dish in the bag.

17. Cont …
• Put on right side out and wrong side with crease
touching the body, sliding the head into the neck
strap, neatly tie the straps at the back.
• Put out the things most needed for the specific case (
ex. Thermometer, kidney basin, cotton ball, waste
paper) and place at one corner of the work area.

18. Cont …
• Proceed to the specific nursing care or treatment.
• After completing nursing care or treatment, clean
and alcohol the things used.

19. Nursing responsibility
• Pack the bag with necessary supplies before leaving for
visits. Pack hand washing supplies near the top or in a
side pocket where they are easily accessible.
• Do not take the healthcare bag into infested homes or
homes of patients with antibiotic resistant infections
such as MRSA or VRE.
• In the home, identify a clean and safe area for the
healthcare bag. Never set the healthcare bag on the
floor. Always choose a place to set the bag that gives
you enough work space, is close to the patient, has a
source of water, and is away from children and pets.

20. Cont …
• Plan where you will discard disposable items and
sharps ahead of time.
• Spread an impervious barrier on the surface before
setting the bag down.
• Remove hand washing supplies first. Wash and dry
hands thoroughly, following proper hand washing
technique.
• Remove any items needed for patient care, including
any necessary personal protective equipment.
• Close the bag before performing patient care.

21. Cont …
• Wash your hands again if you need to re-enter the
bag for additional supplies during patient care.
• Only dispose of sharps in an approved sharps
disposal container. The sharps container must be
kept in a separate “dirty” compartment or a
designated sharps container pouch. Never put used
sharps directly in the bag.
• Discard disposables in a sealed trash bag or
biohazard bag. Follow local and state regulations for
infectious waste disposal.

22. Cont…
• Bag soiled reusable items that cannot be cleaned in
the patient’s home and transport them according to
agency policy. Do not put these soiled items back
into the healthcare bag.
• Wash your hands, then repack and close the
healthcare bag.
• Clean and disinfect the healthcare bag weekly by
hand washing in mild soap and warm water and air
drying.
• Then spray both inside and outside with Sanitized
and air dry again

23. • Evaluation and documentation

24. Bibliography
TEACHER’S REFERENCE
“Dash Bijaylashami” A Comprehensive Textbook Of Community Health
Nursing page no.42-46
“K Park” textbook of Park’s textbook of preventive and social medicine
22st edition , M/S Banarsudas Bhanot publication page no.22-25
“S.kamalam” Essentials in Community Health Nursing Practice, 3rd
edition page no. 304
“K K Gulani” text book of “Community Health Nursing (Principles &
Practices) ” 6edition , Kumar publication house. Page no. 40
“Dr. T.Vasundhara Tulasi & Dr.G.Gnana Prasuna” A text book of
Community Health Nursing-II” 2nd edition , Frontline Publication
page no. 291-294

25. Net reference –
1.https://www.slideshare.net/
2. https://www.who.int/hia/evidence/doh/en/
Student reference:-
“Dr. T.Vasundhara Tulasi & Dr.G.Gnana Prasuna” A
text book of Community Health Nursing-II” 2nd
edition , Frontline Publication page no. 291-294.