NURS 202 Chapter 37: Unit 3 - P&P Chapter 37 Summary
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Determine a patient"s ability to perform self-care and provide hygiene care according to the patient"s needs and preferences. During hygiene, integrate other activities such as physical assessment, wound care, and range-of-motion exercises. While providing daily hygiene needs, use teaching and communication skills in developing a caring relationship with the patient. Various personal, sociocultural, socioeconomic, and developmental factors influence patients" hygiene practices. Patients" health beliefs predict the likelihood of their assuming health-promoting behaviour, such as the maintenance of good hygiene. You might not assess all body regions before administering hygiene; however, routine assessment of the patient"s condition is undertaken whenever care is given. Patients with reduced sensation, vascular insufficiency, and immobility are at greater risk for impaired skin integrity. You must perform an assessment of each patient"s physical and cognitive abilities to perform basic hygiene measures, including muscle strength, flexibility and dexterity, balance, coordination, activity tolerance, and ability to comprehend.
