Abstract

The public health bag is an essential and indispensable equipment of a public health nurse which she has to carry along during her home visit. It contains basic medication and radicals which are necessary for giving care. It save the time and efforts in the performance of nursing procedures. The bag technique can be performed in a variety of ways depending on the agency’s policy, the home situation, or as long as principles of avoiding transfer of infection are always observed. The bag should contains all the necessary articles, supply, and equipment that will be used to answer the emergency needs. Its contents should be cleaned very often. The supplies replaced and ready for use any time; its content should be well protected from content with any articles in the patent’s home. In community health nursing one of the important procedures taught by the nurse educator is bag technique. In a country like India, the health care fraternity and people are still in a state where they do not have an easy access to facilities. While working in the community it so happens most of the time that people are not aware of the health care facilities or they are not in a state to reach the health institutions easily. In such education a community health bag is handier. Since the students learn or see that almost all the other nursing procedures are taught. Using simulations and more attractive ways of teaching methods, most of the time technique of using a community health bag is just taught using the traditional , methods of teaching. It can be more effective and interesting using methods like using a video on bag technique

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