The bag technique involves using a community health bag carried by nurses to provide care outside of clinical settings. The bag contains basic medications, supplies, and equipment needed for procedures like eye irrigation and wound dressing. It allows nurses to demonstrate care and treatments to patients and families while preventing infection spread. Proper bag cleaning and organization helps ensure supplies are accessible and contamination is minimized during home visits. The bag technique aims to provide total patient and family care through procedures, education, and follow-up outside of clinical facilities.

1. BAG TECHNIQUE
PRESENTED BY:
Ms. SAMEEKSHA BHARDWAJ
ASSTT. PROFESSOR
RAMA NURSING COLLEGE

2. INTRODUCTION ON BAG
TECHNIQUE:

3. DEFINITION
The Community health bag is designed to
carry equipment and material needed
during a visit to the home, school or
factory. Equipment and material are
needed to make tests and to demonstrate
patient care such as eye irrigation,
application of ointments ,medications.
(TNAI)
It contains basic medications and articles
which are necessary for giving care.

4. OBJECTIVES
• The overall objective of using community
health bag in a systematic method is “to be
able to carry out nursing procedures in the
family with improvised equipments articles
available at home, maintaining scientific
and nursing principles which can also be
practiced by the family in her absence”.

5. PURPOSE:
• To prevent spread of infection from one patient
to another and from one place to another by
keeping bag and its contents as clean as
possible.
• To demonstrate the principles of cleanliness to
patients and family members by using the bag
in orderly way.
• To carry out selected procedure,
demonstrations, teaching and follow up
services for patients and family members

6. PRINCIPLES:
• The use of the bag technique should minimize
if not totally prevent the spread of infection
from individuals to families, hence, to the
community.
• Bag technique should save time and effort on
the part of the nurse in the performance of
nursing procedures.
• Bag technique should not overshadow concern
for the patient rather should show the
effectiveness of total care given to an
individual or family.

7. INDICATIONS:
The public health bag is used by public health
nurse to-
• Provide antenatal, intranatal and postnatal
care to mother and child.
• Perform certain diagnostic procedures such
as Hb testing, urine testing for early
detection of high risk cases and provide
timely treatment.

8. CONTD....
• Demonstarte certain Procedures to family
members or community such as preparing
oral dehydration solution (ORS),baby
bath,application of benzyl benzoate in
cases of scabies.
• Provide emergency and first aid services
(+) in case of accidents and minor
ailments.
• Provide and demonstrate care in case of
communicable diseases such as
chickenpox.

9. • Provide follow up services in chronic
illness such as diabetes,paraplegia
or amputation.
• Access the need of individual and
families and give health education
in care of
malnutrition,environmental
hazards,home accidents and
immunization etc

10. The contents of the bag;
Outer pocket: is used f
dairy to maintain
records, clean
paper bags and a
square piece of
newspaper or plastic
sheet to keep the bag
on.
The other one is used
for keeping things for
hand washing

11. Soap with soap
box

12. Paper bag

13. Down
compartment:
Test tube
stand

14. Test tube holder

15. Match box

16. Kidney tray

17. Internal compartment:
• These are used for keeping solutions
and medicines for internal and external
use, simple instruments for dressing,
articles for certain procedures such as
temperature taking, urine testing,
antenatal examination and few
additional things for health teaching

18. scissors

19. Enema tube

20. Gauze pieces

22. stethoscope

23. SYRINGES
AND NEEDLES
1.2CC
I/M NEEDLE
S/C NEEDLE

24. bowl

26. List of solutions used:

29. Medications:

31. Procedure: -
Wash hands
Remove hand washing material
Spread newspaper
Select area of work.

32. procedure continue…
After procedure, wash hands under tap
water.
Close the bag.
Remove needed equipment’s.
Remove the apron from the bag and put
it on.

33. procedure continue…
Return articles to the bag.
Wait for 5 minutes.
Use cotton swab moistened
with spirit and wipe outside of
used bottles

34. procedure continue…
Write a report of what was
observed, what was done,
instructions given.
Close the bag.
Fold used newspaper with
used side inside, and return
to outside pocket.

35. Evaluation and Documentation
• Record all relevant findings about the
client and members of the family.
• Take note of environmental factors which
affect the clients/family health.
• Include quality of nurse-patient
relationship.
• Assess effectiveness of nursing care
provided.

36. Care of the bag
In order to keep the bag ready for use at any
time, observe some of the following
instructions.
• Clean the bag daily,protect from excessive
heat or rain to reserve it in a good condition.
• Replace the drugs,dressing and linen daily in
the bag.
• Empty all the contents,wash the bag with soap
and water once in a week or more frequently
depending on how much it has been used and
dry it the sun.

37. • Wash the non-expendable articles such
as instruments,linen and utensils with
soap and water and boil them.
• Repalce cotton or plastic bags
containing swabs and dressing with
sterile one.
• Check gloves,catheters,thermometer
and glass articles,replace if spoilt or
broken.
• Repack the bag in an orderly way;keep
articles in their usual places to make
them easily traceble.

38. Nurse’s responsibility:-
The bag should
contain all
necessary articles,
supplies and
equipment.
The bag and its
contents should be
cleaned.
The bag and its
contents should be
well protected.

39. CONTINUE…
Hand washing
should be
done
frequently.
The bag
should be
cleaned
thoroughly
before re-
using.
Record the
procedure
after
performing.