Advantages / Benefits of Home Care

Health is the thing that is needed by every human being, it is reflected in the large number of patients who come to health services for treatment and care, they come from many different groups, ranging from high-class economic group, to the down economy.

Home health care is one type of long-term care that can be provided by professionals and non-professionals who have been trained. Home health care, which is one form of health care is a component of a continuous range of health services and comprehensive given to individuals and families in their homes which aims to improve, maintain or restore health and maximizing the level of independence and minimize the consequences of diseases including terminal. Services that meet the needs of individual patients and families, planned, coordinated and provided by the service providers organized to provide home care through staff or contractual arrangements or a combination of both.

Sherwen (1991) defines health care as an integral part of home nursing services performed by nurses to help individuals, families and communities achieve self-reliance in solving health problems that they face. While Stuart (1998) describe the home health care as part of the process of nursing at the hospital, which is a continuation of the repatriation plan (discharge planning), for clients it was time to go home from the hospital. Home care is usually performed by a nurse from the hospital initially, carried out by community nurses where the client is located, or carried out by a special team that handles home care.

Advantages / Benefits of Home Care

The benefits that can be obtained in general from the activities of home care include:

• Improve promotive, preventive, curative and rehabilitative.
• Reducing the frequency of hospitalization.
• Efficiency of time, cost, effort and thought.

The benefits of home care, hospital-based:

• Direct access to doctors who refer and treat patients and potential patients easier.
• The carrying capacity of a large organization financially available to help solve temporary cash - flow in the initial phase.
• Ease / advantage in securing managed care through a process of collaboration and service integration.
• The need for comprehensive care of patients will be met.
• Continuity of care and the internal controls of the cost, quality and access to services.
• Length of Stay will ter-manage more effectively.
• There are opportunities to increase hospital revenue.

Home Care - Prevent and Treat Vaginal Discharge

There are some women whose vaginal discharge is so light that they don’t realize they even have a discharge. ust like any other physical characteristic, the amount of normal discharge varies a lot from woman to woman.

Vaginal discharge is a term given to biological fluids contained within or expelled from the vagina.

Normal vaginal discharge has several purposes: cleaning and moistening the vagina, and helping to prevent and fight infections. Although it's normal for the color, texture, and amount of vaginal fluids to vary throughout a girl's menstrual cycle, some changes in discharge may indicate a problem.

Vaginal discharge is made up of cervical mucous, discharge from vaginal walls, and sweat from the vulva. Some women have large numbers of mucous glands on the cervix, which increases the amount of vaginal discharge. Overweight women, especially if they wear stretch pants, will have a heavier vaginal discharge because of the increase in sweat.

The following situations can increase the amount of normal vaginal discharge:

• Emotional stress
• Ovulation (the production and release of an egg from your ovary in the middle of your menstrual cycle)
• Pregnancy
• Sexual excitement

To help prevent and treat vaginal discharge:

• Keep your genital area clean and dry.
• Do not douche. While many women feel cleaner if they douche after menstruation or intercourse, it may actually worsen vaginal discharge because it removes healthy bacteria lining the vagina that are there to protect you from infection. It can also lead to infection in the uterus and fallopian tubes, and is never recommended.
• Use an over-the-counter yeast infection treatment cream or vaginal suppository, if you know that you have a yeast infection.
• Eat yogurt with live cultures or take Lactobacillus acidophilus tablets when you are on antibiotics to avoid a yeast infection.
• Use condoms to avoid catching or spreading STIs.
• Avoid using feminine hygiene sprays, fragrances, or powders in the genital area.
• Avoid wearing extremely tight-fitting pants or shorts, which may cause irritation.
• Wear cotton underwear or cotton-crotch pantyhose. Avoid underwear made of silk or nylon, because these materials are not very absorbent and restrict air flow. This can increase sweating in the genital area, which can cause irritation.
• Use pads and not tampons.
• Keep your blood sugar levels under good control if you have diabetes.

If the discharge is caused by a sexually transmitted disease, your sexual partner (or partners) must be treated as well, even if they have no symptoms. Failure of partners to accept treatment can cause the infection to keep coming back and may lead to pelvic inflammatory disease or infertility. Source : www.nlm.nih.gov