GOKUL NURSING COLLEGE
1ST YEAR GNM
UNIT PLAN
SUBJECT: NURSING FOUNDATION ALLORTED HOURS: 65
UNIT NO: I CONCERNED TEACHER: MR. BHAUMIK
NAME OF UNIT: MEETING BASIC NEEDS OF PATIENT
GENERAL OBJECTIVES: After completion of this unit students will understand
Unit Time(Hrs) LearningOutcomes Content Teaching/ Assessmen
LearningActivities tMethods
III 65 Describe Meeting the Basic Needs of a patient Lecture cum Short answer
basic needs
a) Physical needs- discussion Objective type
of the patient
Demonstrate skill - Comfort, rest, sleep and exercise Demonstration Essay type
in meeting basic –Importance and its promotion
Return
care of the patient - Body mechanics –moving, lifting,
demonstration
transferring
Assessment using
- Position and posture maintenance
checklist
- Comfort devices
- Beds and bed making – Principles of
bed making, types and care of bed
linen
- Safety devices, restraints and splints
- Exercises – Active and Passive
b) Hygienic needs
- Personal and environmental hygiene
personal
- Nurses note in maintaining personal
and environmental hygiene.
- Care of eyes, nose, ears, hands and
feet.
- Care of mouth, skin, hair and genitalia
- Care of pressure areas, bed sores.
c) Elimination needs
- Health and sickness
- Problems – constipation and diarrhea,
retention and incontinence of urine.
- Nurse’s role in meeting elimination
needs.
- Offering bed-pan and urinal,
- Observing and recording
abnormalities.
- Preparation and giving of laxative,
suppositories, enemas, bowel wash,
flatus tube.
- Perineal care, care of patient with
urinary catheter, diapers.
- Maintenance of intake and output
records
d) Nutritional needs
- Diet in health and disease
- Factors affecting nutrition in illness,
- Nurse’s role in meeting patients
nutritional needs.
- Modification of diet in illness.
- Diet planning and serving.
- Feeding helpless patients including
artificial methods of feeding.
e) Psychological and spiritual needs
- Importance
- Nurse’s role -Diversional and
Recreational therapy
f) Care of terminally ill and dying patient
- Dying patient’s signs and symptoms
needs of dying patient and family,
- Nursing care of dying-: special
considerations; advance directives,
euthanasia, will, dying declaration,
organ donation etc.
- Medico legal issues
- Care of the dead body
- Care of unit
- Autopsy
- Embalming