Safety of the patient

For maintenance of safe medium of the patient it is necessary to adhere to following rules:

* the Bed of the patient, a toilet, a bathroom should be supplied by calls for an emergency call;
* For the prevention of falling in a room of the elderly person there should not be high thresholds, wires and other subjects underfoot, cords on carpets;
* During movement of badly seeing person of a ladder and corridors should be well shined;
* After hit on a floor of its liquid it is necessary to wipe immediately that the patient has not slipped on a wet place; It is necessary to interfere with fast circulation and run of wards;

The footwear of the elderly and weakened patients should be convenient, not crushed, with not slipping sole. Check as the sole on a floor slips is better! On different coverings different soles slip variously!

* Accustom the weakened patients and patients with coordination disturbances to use a handrail, hand-rail, basic handles, crutches ;
* Periodically check durability of fastening of a handrail and hand-rail;
* Periodically check quality of points (a status of glasses) and their conformity to requirements of the ward (consultation of the oculist);
* Periodically check quality of job of a hearing aid;
* the Weakened patients, aged should use a bathroom and a toilet, not closing a door on a latch;
* In a room sick the night lamp allowing the woken up person to orient in a situation at the night should burn;
* In a room of the patient in a prominent place there should be hours for orientation of the patient in time;
* At threat of falling of the patient from a bed use the beds having lateral sides;
* If there is a threat of falling of the patient from a bed, and to establish at a bed sides it is not obviously possible, lay near to a bed a mattress for the most safe falling of the patient;
* it is necessary for Patient to avoid a sharp rising from bed or from an armchair in order to avoid giddiness, a loss of consciousness and falling of the patient;
* At a rising in a bathroom it is impossible to use as a hand-rail cocks or waterpipe pipes. In cases of failure of the cock or an abruption of a pipe the elderly person can burn;
* In connection with bad sensitivity of a skin of the elderly person to temperature in a bathroom it needs to measure water temperature not by an arm, and by means of the water thermometer, differently it can sit down in excessively hot water;
* In order to avoid a skin traumatising it is impossible to suffice older persons raspingly;
* do not submit to elderly patients nutrition too hot, burning;
* In order to avoid combustions it is impossible to use an electric heater to the people, a suffering incontience of urine and a feces;
* Looking after the seriously ill patient, hold the fingernails shortly cut, take out from ornament arms;
* to Drink and eat people with swallowing disturbances should only in the presence of the second person.

Fire safety:

On kitchen where there lives the elderly person compelled independently to cook to food, in the presence of a gas cooker of a ring of a back row should be disconnected, and the elderly person should know, that they do not work. It is necessary to do it to prevent fire of sleeves of clothes when, trying to light a back ring, the elderly person lasts through the lighted ring of a forward number and the clothes light up. We will remind, that reaction to such situation at older persons happens often inadequate and instead of bringing down a flame, the elderly person starts to run with burning sleeves on apartment therefore gets very strong combustions;

* Near to a cooker there should not be inflammable subjects: curtains, towels, washing-up liquids, etc.;
* the Smoking patients who are on a confinement to bed, should smoke only in the presence of other persons;
* Hide matches from the patients, suffering an aphrenia;
* It is impossible to smoke near to the patient using an oxygen cushion.

At equipment use:

* Attentively study all instructions or instructions for use that either other medical equipment or stock;
* Be convinced, that you have correctly understood a principle of action of the equipment;
* Try equipment action at first on itself;
* Periodically check serviceability of the equipment;
* At use crutches, canes periodically check their durability, durability of joints, integrity of handpieces;
* Periodically check durability of a lateral handrail on a bed;

All means of transportation of the patient having wheels: the trolley, a wheel-chair, a functional bed, etc. - should have functioning brakes. Before use of these agents be convinced, that you know, how brakes work and that they are serviceable. During replacing or a rearrangement of a sick brake should be fixed. If you are compelled to leave for the period of the person who is on wheel means of transportation before to depart from the patient, you should fix brakes.

Dialogue with mentally sick person:

* In cases when the patient independently switches on gas on kitchen, it is necessary to supply a pipe resulting gas in apartment, the gate with taken out head. Leaving kitchen, the gate head should be carried away with itself;
* In the presence of the expressed excitation of the patient or the statement it of suicidal thoughts cannot be left the patient of one indoors, during excitation the way to a window should be covered looking after;
* All medicines should be hidden from the patient in a reliable place;
* All agents of household chemical goods should be under the latch;
* the Drug intake should be carried out in the presence of the second person. After a drug intake it is necessary to check an oral cavity of the patient, whether it has hidden in angles of a mouth of a tablet for this purpose, what further, having saved up them in enough to accept single-step;
* to Watch how the patient eats. In default from meal to solve a question with the attending physician about ways of feeding of the patient;
* to Clean in apartment in all internal premises latches from doors;
* to Speak with the patient it is necessary an equal, quiet voice, to abstain from objections;
* Acute, pricking, cutting subjects should be removed;
* with memory disturbance it is necessary for patient Leaving on street to put in pockets a note with the indicating of a surname, a name, a patronymic, the address, a home telephone number and phone of close people.