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Community and Health - NURSEHow to take a pulse Primary Australian Curriculum General Capability: Personal and social capability 1. Use this video to learn how to take a pulse and then try it on yourself or a friend/family member.
How to Take a Pulse
2. Research what it a pulse is by looking at this resource from Kids Health 3. Explain to your family member what you know about your heart beat and pulse.
How to Bandage a Hand Primary Australian Curriculum General Capability: Personal and social capability 1. In pairs, view this video https://youtu.be/TNQxlxjD5Kw to see how to bandage a hand.
2. Try out bandaging a hand of your partner. 3.
Reflection.
Practice makes perfect. How many times did you need to bandage your partner's hand to get it "perfect"?
Measuring Medicine - an essential part of nursing Middle Australian Curriculum General Capability: Numeracy 1. You are a practicing nurse at your town's local hospital in the emergency ward. As part of being a practicing nurse it is required that you assist in measuring out medicine for patients.
Your first patient is a 4 year old girl weighing 16.5
kgs. This child has been brought to the hospital with a very high
temperature. The doctor tells you that you need to give her medicine to
bring her temperature down. 2. After a discussion with the parent before administering the medicine it is found that the child has already been given 1 teaspoon of the same medicine at home before bringing her to the hospital in an attempt to lower her temperature. You discuss this with the supervising doctor and he tells you that you need to administer the difference. How much medicine do you need to give to the child?
3. All nurses check and double check
medicine measurement with their colleagues. With a partner, share your
results. Are they the same? If not, why not?
Drug Calculations (submitted by Trevor Ianna, ACU) Secondary Australian Curriculum General Capability: Numeracy 1. Drug calculations vary depending on whether you are dealing with liquid or solid medications, or if the dose is to be given over a period of time. It is very important that you know how drug dosages are worked out, because it is good practice to always check calculations before giving medication, no matter who worked out the original amount. It is far better to point out a mistake on paper than overdose a patient. a) Tablets Working out dosage from tablets is simple. Formula for dosage: (Total dosage required÷Dosage per tablet)=Number of tablets required 1. A patient needs 500mg of X per day. X comes in 125mg tablets. How many tablets per day does he need to take? Fun Practice at Drug Calucalations Teacher Resources required: 1. Small sauce containers (take off lids) – at least 10 for the patients. 2. Containers for the individual lollies (each type of lolly to have their own container). Suggested lollies: Jellybeans; Sultana nuts; Smarties; Lifesavers; Liquorice Allsorts; TicTacs; and, Sourpatch. 3. To make the task more realistic, you can divide up the lollies into different dosages so the students have to be extra careful about which container they use. Student Instructions: In groups of 3 students [one the observer; one the dispenser; and, one the checker], put the medications for each patient into the containers. The checker is to counter-sign that they concur with the dispenser’s calculations. The observer is to act like a supervisor – as another checker. Fill out the following chart (here it is as a Word Doc).
b) Liquid Medicines Liquid medicines are a little trickier to deal with as they will contain a certain dose within a certain amount of liquid, such as 250mg in 50ml, for example. To work out the dosage, we use the formula: (What you want ÷ What you’ve got) × What it’s in Note: In order to use this formula, the units of measurement must be the same for ‘What you want’ and ‘What you’ve got’; i.e. both mg, or both mcg etc. We need a dose of 500mg of Y. Y is available in a solution of 250mg per 50ml.
Activity: Create a Puzzle Primary Australian Curriculum General Capability: Critical and Creative Thinking Australian Curriculum General Capability: Literacy
2. Use Puzzle Maker or Crossword Puzzle Games
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