BED BATH 🛁

• Hygiene


  Self-care by which people attend to such functions as bathing, toileting, general body hygiene, and grooming
• Hygiene


  • Highly personal matter determined by individual values and practices
  • Involves care of the skin, feet, nails, oral and nasal cavities, hair, eyes, ears, and perineal-genital areas
• Taking a shower or bath is an important daily routine to keep us clean and comfortable especially in a humid environment
• For people who are bed-ridden, they need to take their bath in bed with a help of a care giver
• Early morning care


  Provided to clients as they awaken in the morning, consisting of providing a urinal or bedpan, washing the face and hands, and giving oral care
• Morning care


  Often provided after clients have breakfast, although it may be provided before breakfast, usually including providing for elimination needs, a bath or shower, perineal care, back massages, and oral, nail, and hair care. Making the client's bed is part of morning care.
• Hour of sleep or PM care


  Provided to clients before they retire for the night, usually involving providing for elimination needs, washing face and hands, giving oral care, and giving a back massage
• Bed bath


  The cleaning and providing hygienic care to clients in bed
• Making a bath mitt

  1. Triangular method

  2. Rectangular method
• Air current facilitates heat loss by convection, so close windows, fans, and aircon units to prevent chills
• Caution is needed when bathing clients who are receiving IV therapy
• The nurse should use universal precautions when bathing a client, particularly when performing perineal care. It is not necessary, however, to wear gloves while providing a bath and the nurse should use clinical judgment when deciding to wear gloves and offer an explanation to the client
• During bath, assess skin areas carefully for any breakdown or abnormality
• effects of bed bath

  • removes accumulated oil,dirt,dead skin cells and bacteria
  • facilitates increase of venues return
  • skin bathing circulation of blood
• Massage


  The act of rubbing kneading someone's body with the hands to relieve tension and pain
• Massage


  • It is a scientific and systematic manual manipulation of the soft tissues of the body with hands in order to produce effect on nervous, muscular & circulatory systems which will help to restore or improve function
  • It is also a comfort measure used to create energy, a natural method of restoring part either locally or generally injured, to its normal condition
  • It can also decrease pain intensity by increasing superficial circulation to the area
• Massage frees the lungs from adherent mucus and bronchial secretions
• Massage facilitates improved blood circulation
• Massage is contraindicated for people with DVT, CA
• Effleurage

  An uninterrupted gliding stroke that warms the muscle, prepares the tissue for deeper work, and provides a stretch to the muscle that results in increased relaxation
• Beating massage must not be done on the back
• Types of Effleurage

  • Open-palm (one hand or two-hand stroke)
  • Closed palm/fist
  • Forearm
• Types of Tapotement


  • Cupping
  • Ulnar hacking
  • Point-hacking
  • Beating
• Vibration massage can be done slowly or rapidly, to a specific body area or to the entire body, and is good for joint mobilization on the low back and sacrum
• Effleurage is intended to warm the muscle and prepare it for a deeper muscular activity