Understanding the Benefits and Challenges of Home Visits
Explore the definition, purpose, principles, advantages, and disadvantages of home visits. Learn why home visits are crucial for providing personalized care, assessing living conditions, promoting health education, and facilitating family involvement. Discover the pros and cons of conducting home visits, including the importance of individualized care, environmental observation, and cost reduction, as well as the challenges of time consumption, efficiency issues, and distractions.
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OUTLINE Definition. Purpose. Principles. Advantages &disadvantages of home visiting. Phases of home visit.
DEFINITION OF HOME VISIT Home visit means visiting the family at their places to :1-assess the health needs , 2-provide services such as preventive, primitive, curative or rehabilitative services at their door step by the community health nurse or health workers.
PURPOSE OF HOME VISIT 1-To give care to the sick, to the postpartum and her newborn with he view teach a responsible family member to give the subsequent care. 2-To assess the living condition of the patient and his family and their health practices in order to provide appropriate health teaching.
CONTINUE 3-To give health teaching regarding the prevention and control of diseases to establish close relationship between the health agencies and the public for the promotion of health. 4-To make use of the inter-referral system and to promote the utilization of community services.
PRINCIPLES OF HOME VISIT 1-Have purpose or objectives. 2-Use of available information about the patient and his family 3-Priority. 4- Involve the individual and family. 5- Flexibility. Family records
ADVANTAGES OF HOME VISIT 1- Individualized care. 2-Receive care at home. 3-Observe environmental factors impinging on health. Housing condition finances 4 Understanding lifestyle
CONTINUE 5-Family member participation. 6-Individuals and family members are more receptive to learning. 7-Reduce overall costs .Hospitalization. 8-Family focus is facilitated.
DISADVANTAGES OF HOME VISIT 1-Time consuming .travel time is costly. 2-Less efficient for the nurse. (working with groups or seeing many clients in an ambulatory site is more efficient for the nurse). 3-Distraction and difficult to control. television Noisy children
CONTINUE 4-Clients resistance or fearful. 5-Nurse safety.
PHASES AND ACTIVITIES OF HOME VISIT . Initiation phase Pre- visit phase In home phase Termination phase Post visit phase
CONTINUE 1-Initiation phase: *clarify source of referral for visit. *clarify purpose for visit. 2-Pre- visit phase: *Initiate contact with family. *Establish shared perception of purpose with family.
CONTINUE *Determine family's willingness for home visit. *Schedule's for the home visits. *Review referral and family records. 3-In- home phase: *Introduce self and professional identity. *Social interaction to establish rapport.
CONTINUE *Establish nurse- client relationship. *Implement nursing process. 4-Termination phase: *Review visit with family. *Plan for future visit
CONTINUE 5-Post visit phase: *Record visit. *Plan for next visit.
