HNN112 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Microorganism, Underweight, Dysphagia
HNN112 WEEK 6 Seminar Note
• describe relationship between hygiene and health
a) Poor hygiene can cause impaired health. On the one hand, micro-organism
will grow in where hygiene status is low, leading to infection. On the other
hand, maintaining an optimal hygiene is helpful to healing by preventing
infection from occurring.
b) Poor health can weaken hygiene. When people are in bad health situation,
they are more unlikely to maintain hygiene regarding motivation or ability to
access hygiene resources.
• identify fators that ifluee idiiduals’ hygiee
a) Developmental level, example: infants and adult.
b) Health and nutrition status
c) Financial situation
d) Education
e) Culture influence, example: shower times each week
f) Religion
g) Personal preferences
• identify nursing problems related to hygiene and nutrition
a) self-care deficit: bathing, dressing, feeding, toileting
b) self-neglect
c) fluid volume, risk for deficient
d) fluid volume, risk for imbalance
e) nutrition imbalance: less than body requirement
f) obesity
g) overweight/ risk for overweight
h) fluid volume, deficient
i) fluid volume, excess
• idetify possile ursig iteretios to assist patiet’s ith hygiee proles
a) ask patiet’s preferees of athig
b) bathe patient or assist patient in bathing
c) obtain all the bathing supplies withi patiet’s easy reah
d) ensure safety equipment and call device in place
e) provide a safe and warm environment for patient
f) instruct patient to seek for help when needed
g) use guide practice to help patient relearn basic hygiene technique
h) identify causative reasons of lacking self-bathing skill
• define the terms nutrition and hydration
a) Nutrition refers to the intake of food in order to help body systems
function normally.
b) Hydration refers to the intake of fluid especially water, for the purpose of
digestion, elimination, etc.
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