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Prevención e atención sociosanitaria. Técnicas de enfermería básicas para o auxiliar de axuda a domicilio.

By Pilar Fernández Soto, Nuria Fernández Soto e Ideaspropias Editorial.

About this book

In present day society much attention is paid to people who, due to their disabilities or old age, have lost autonomy in their daily lives. The demand for trained professionals to provide support to such groups is on the increase, and that is why there are job offers for residence help aid as a profession for the future. With this handbook, the reader can acquire the necessary knowledge to undertake basic nursing techniques and for the P.A.H. Behaviour (protect, alert, help).

The contents in this book correspond to the module “Social and Health Prevention” in Home help according to the Professional Certificate for Auxiliary Home Helpers according to Royal Decree 331/1997.

Book fragment

Housing is, no doubt, the place where the patient spends the most time. That is why the staff has to thoroughly study the housing conditions of the patient and try to adapt it in order to increase her or his autonomy and quality of life.

The auxiliary home help must present to the patient a draft of all the rooms with signals of risks and the protection needed.

The human body includes a group of organs coordinated amongst themselves and organised in different systems. Studying their functions is what we call physiology.

The systems in the human body are the following: the nervous system, the bone system, respiratory system, digestive system, circulatory, blood and immunological systems, muscle and epithelial systems, endocrine, excreting and urinary systems and the reproductive system. Each of these systems is vulnerable to different pathologies.

When the users are immobile, we must consider in any case a series of arguments. First we have to motivate the patient and inform her or him in detail of what we are going to do. We also have to consider whether it is a dependent or semi-dependent patient because the care delivered is different.