Home care nursing involves looking after a sick person at home so they receive help from a caregiver. A good home nurse has qualities like caring for others, respect, honesty, courtesy, good communication skills, respect for privacy, dependability, working well with others, determination and flexibility, and eagerness to learn. Home nursing has advantages like making the patient feel secure, increasing confidence and independence, allowing preferences in food, minimizing disruption to usual tasks, being relatively inexpensive compared to hospitals, and helping reduce congestion in clinics and hospitals. Common complaints of home patients include breathing issues, coughs, asthma, sleeping problems, urinary issues, and agitation or aggression.

2. CAREGIVING
1st Quarter

3. What makes a
good home care
nursing?

4. Topic: BASIC HOME CARE NURSING

5. “ It is one of the most beautiful
compensations of this life that no man
can sincerely try to help another
without helping himself”
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

6. Home care nursing is the act of looking after a sick person at home
so that he or she, the patient, receives help from the caregiver.
What is a Home Care Nursing ?

7. - Care about others
- Respect for all people
- Honesty
-Courtesy and considerateness
-Good communication skills
-Respect for the privacy of others
-Dependability
-Working well with others
- Determination and flexibility
- Eagerness to learn
Cleanliness and health consciousness
CHARACTERISTICS OF A
GOOD HOME NURSE

8. ADVANTAGES OF
HOME NURSING
The patient would feel secure and can be attended
immediately by the home caregiver.
It increases the patient’s self confidence and
encourages independence.
Food preferences can easily be provided.
It minimizes the disruption of usual tasks or
activities at home.
It is relatively less expensive than hospital care.
It helps decongest clinics and hospitals.

9. 1. Breathing difficulties
2. Coughs
3. Asthma and hiccups
4. Sleeping problem
5. Uncontrolled urination
6. Agitation and aggressive behavior
COMPLAINTS OF
PATIENTS AT HOME