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Topic will be discussed:

1. vital signs
2. immunization
3. maternal and child care
4. communicable diseases
5. health promotion

Vital signs
• measurements of physiologic functioning, specifically
body temp, respiratory, cardiac, BP, may include pain
and pulse oximetry

important data needed to be gather;

• weight
• height
• temp
• rr
• pr
• bp
• Pain(if present)
• Patient History

What is BHW?
• is to provide primary care
• assist nurses in health center
• to provide care with in the community without the
presence of nurses and doctors
• needed to be trained and certify the community to
perform primary health care
Duties and responsibilities:

• to help Public health nurse

• to assist patient\
• to provide health teaching
• obtaining health history
• perform simple nursing procedure
 • refer pt with immediate care needed
• monitoring patient(house to house
• provide documentation, statistics, complains of the
community to the municipal health department

Issues within the community;

 Poverty
 Nutrition
 Environment
 Family environment
 Status of women
 Social and gender issues

Procedure:
Weight and height taking:
Vital signs taking
Traditional health practice

Herbal medicines that is advocated by DOH:

Lagundi- asthma, cough, fever, cold, pain, scabies etc..
 boil for 15 minutes

\yeba Buena- for pain, arthritis, cough , toothache, menstrual and

gas pain

Sambong- diureticanti kidney stone

Tsaang gubat- diarrhea, stomacheache,

Niyog-niyogan- anti helmintic

Bayabas- natural antibiotic, diarrhea, toothache

Akapulko- anti fungal

Ulasimang bato(pansit-pansitan- lower uric acid

Bawang- lower blood cholesterol,BP, toothache

Ampalaya- for diabetes

Reminders using herbal medicine!

 avoid insecticides
 use only the prescribe part of the plants
 follow accurate dose
 use only right herbal for right sign and symptoms
 stop giving when adverse reaction occur

Reproductive health:
A state of complete physical, mental, and social well being and
not merely absence of disease in all matters regarding
reproduction

Goal:
To achieve healthy sexual development
To achieve their reproductive intention
To avoid illness
To provide appropriate counseling

 provide effective modern contraceptive method

 provide natural family planning information
 treatment and rehabilitation for RH
 prevent rh problem

MATERNAL CARE

PRENATAL CARE- to provide sufficient information and care to

ensure healthy pregnancy

BHW needed to gather the ff:

 masterlist of pregnant women
 schedule of check up
steps in check up:
 first prenatal visit should be made as early in pregnancy as
possible
  second visit during the second trimester
 the third subsequent visit during third trimester
- once a month in first second trimester
- every 2 weeks in 7 and 8 weeks
- weekly during expected date of birth
 frequent visit when there is complication
history taking
physical exam
APGAR scoring
Leopold’s maneuver

home delivery

immunization- to prevent childhood diseases

tetanus toxoid- for mother

BCG- given @ birth

DPT- 1st dose= after six weeks,2nd dose after a month, and 3rd
dose given after a month of 2nd.
OPV- same with dpt
Mmp- after 9 months

Communicable disease:
To provide information about non communicable and
communicable dse.
Leading communicable disease- tubeculosis
In 1997 16 million filipino’s are infected with tb
DOH provide DOTS program to control TB prevalence
( Direct Observed Treatment Short course

MODE OF transmission
Airborne
Droplet
Direct invasion d/t cuts, mucus
Other communicable diseases

>leprosy
> Measles
Mumps
Chicken Pox
Influenza
Pneumonia
Hepatitis

NON COMMUNICABLE:

Cardiac diseases
DIABETES
Kidney dse

Heath Education/teaching
 way in planning community teaching
 ways of acquiring funds
 making program
 proposing programs

@ the end of each lecture return demo will be performed.