This document discusses the community health bag, including its purposes, principles, and process of bag technique. The community health bag is an essential piece of equipment for public health nurses that carries materials needed for home and school visits. It contains equipment for tests, demonstrations, and collecting samples. The bag has multiple compartments including outer pockets, side pockets, and sterile compartments. Each compartment contains specific supplies like scissors, measuring tapes, specimen bottles, and sterile gloves. The process of bag technique involves selecting a clear work area, unpacking supplies aseptically, performing the nursing procedure, repacking supplies, and documenting findings. Proper cleaning and organization of the bag and its contents is important.

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BAG
TECHNIQUE
MISS RAJOSI KHANRA
M.Sc. 1st year

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Define community health bag
Purposes of community health bag
Principles of community health bag
Process of bag technique
List out the articles in different pockets of bag
Here is where i add my teaching points.

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COMMUNITY HEALTH BAG
Community health bag is known as a public
health bag is an essential equipment of a
public health nurse , designed to carry
materials needed during a visit to the home,
school .
Equipment and material are needed to make
tests and to demonstrate patient care such as
eye irrigation, application of ointments
,medications.

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PURPOSES OF COMMUNITY
HEALTH BAG
● To carry equipment and material needed for home,
school visit
● To carry equipment and materials that are needed
to make tests and to demonstrate procedures like
dressing, injections, eye irrigation, vital signs etc.
● To perform blood and urine investigation during
visits.
● To collect and carry the samples of a person.

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● The nurse should use an economical
method of using supplies and
equipment in a bag appropriately.
● Clean and dry the bag and articles
before replacing it to the bag.
● Clean and sterilise contaminated
articles before returning to bag.
● The bag should contain all necessary
articles, equipements.
● Follow aseptic techniques throughout
the procedures.

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POCKETS OF BAG
Four compartments
are present in the bag:
● Outer pocket
● Side pockets
● Sterile compartments
● Lower compartment
In our institution’s community
bag has 6 compartment:
● Outer pocket (2) - unsterile
pocket, hand washing articles
pocket
● Inner pockets (4) - sterile
pocket, health assessment articles
pocket, procedures’ articles
pocket, medicine pocket

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ARTICLES IN BAG
SIDE POCKETS
● Scissors
● Measuring inch
tape
● Litmus paper
● Babies weighing
scale
● Specimen bottles
● 1 pair of sterile
gloves
OUTSIDE POCKET
● Soap with soap case
● Hand towel
● Nail brush
● Nail cutter
● Newspaper
● Newspaper bag
● Apron
● Pocket diary
● Pen and pencils

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LOWER COMPARTMENTS
● Ounce glass - 1
● Plastic kidney tray- 1
● Test tube and test tube holder
● Medicine dropper-1
● Spirit lamp
● Spatula
● Fetoscope
● Matchbox
● BP instruments
● Solution:
1. Spirit
2. Benedict sol.
3. Betadine
4. Acidic sol.
5. dettol/ savlon
CLEAN/STERILE POCKETS
● Dressing pack
● Bandages
● Scissors
● Artery forceps
● Dissecting forceps
● Thermometer
● Disposable syringe with needles
● Slide (2)
● Steel kidney tray
● Cotton and gauze pack
● Solution bowl (small)
● Drugs

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PROCESS OF BAG TECHNIQUE
Select a clear area and spread the newspaper that place
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Place the bag in one corner of the newspaper
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Remove the watch and jewelleries and keep in pocket
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Unbutton the outer pocket and take out handwashing things
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Open the bag and take out the articles for procedures
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Wash the hands and dry with towels and keep it aside
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Carry out the nursing procedure

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CONT….
Keep soiled swabs in paper bag and give for disposal to family members
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Keep the used instruments in unsterile pocket which are needed to sterilise
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After procedure need to hand wash again and dry it
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Close the bag properly and document the findings, procedures
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Carry the bag and fold the newspaper and place it in outer pocket

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POINTS TO BE CONSIDERED…..
1
The bag and its
contents should be
cleaned very often,
the supplies replaced
and ready for use
anytime.
2 3
The bag should
contain all necessary
articles , supplies and
equipment that will be
used to answer the
emergency needs.
The bag and its
contents should be
well protected from
contact with any
article in the
patient’s home.

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POINTS TO BE CONSIDERED…..
4
Don’t keep any
personal things
inside the bag such
as books and
snacks.
5 6
The arrangements of
the contents of the bag
should be the one
convenient to the user,
to facilitate efficiency
and avoid confusions.
Protect the bag
while using it at
home from
handling by
children and from
dust.

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Bag technique is a prior procedure which
is carried out before other procedures.
Without bag technique the next steps can
not be carried out.
CONCLUSION

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WHAT IS THE
PROCESS OF
BAG
TECHNIQUE??

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George Shincy, a comprehensive procedures manual of
community health nursing, Emmess medical publishers
(2016), 2nd edition, page no. (3-7).
Anjalatchi. Bag techniques [Internet]. 2019. Available from:
https://www.slideshare.net/anjalatchi/bag-techniques.
BIBLIOGRAPHY

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