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Video Guide: Walking with Crutches
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How to Use Crutches, Canes, and Walkers   General Guidelines    If you ever break a bone in your leg or foot, have a surgical procedure on your lower limb, or suffer a stroke, you may need to use crutches, a cane, or a walker.   In the beginning, everything you do may seem difficult. But, with a few tips and some practice, you will gain confidence and learn to use your walking aid safely.  General Guidelines   1. Remove scatter rugs, electrical cords, spills, and anything else that may cause you to fall.  2. In the bathroom, use nonslip bath mats, grab bars, a raised toilet seat, and a shower tub seat.  3. Simplify your household to keep the items you need handy and everything else out of the way.  4. Use a backpack, fanny pack, apron, or briefcase to help you carry things around.   Crutches     If an injury or surgical procedure requires you to keep your weight off your leg or foot, you may have to use crutches.   Proper Positioning   The top of your crutches should reach between 1 an...
Video Guide: Essential Newborn Care " Unang Yakap"
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  Essential Newborn Care " Unang Yakap"   The Department of Health embarked on Essential Newborn Care , a new program to address neonatal deaths in the country. Under the umbrella of the Unang Yakap Campaign, Essential Newborn Care is an evidenced based strategic intervention aimed at improving newborn care and helping cub neonatal mortality.   The Essential Newborn Care package is a four-step newborn care time-bound intervention undertaken to lessen newborn death.   1. Immediate and thorough drying to stimulate breathing after delivery of the baby   2. Provision of appropriate thermal care through mother and newborn skin-to skin contact maintaining a delivery room temperature of 25-28 degrees centigrade and wrapping the newborn with clean, dry cloth.   3. Properly timed clamping and cutting of the umbilical cord, (1-3 minutes or until cord pulsation stops)   4. Non-separation of the newborn and mother for early breast-feeding. Immediate latching on and initiation of breastfe...
Lecture Notes: Newborn Assessment
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Newborn Assessment    View more documents  from Mark Fredderick Abejo      DOWNLOAD PROCEDURE: LIKE us on Facebook via our FACEBOOK PAGE widget  FOLLOW us on Twitter via our TWITTER ACCOUNT widget  SHARE this blog on your own Facebook and Twitter account  via SHARE IT widget  ANSWER our SURVEY POOL widget   NOTE: Widgets can be found on the right side portion of this BLOG  CLICK  view on slideshare   button on the left lower corner of this presentation.   CREATE / SIGN UP your own account to  www.slideshare.com.  LOG IN using your own account  SEARCH  Mark Fredderick Abejo   to view all uploaded documents.  DOWNLOAD the document you like.  
Lecture Notes: Care of the Newborn
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Care of the Newborn Handouts    View more documents  from Mark Fredderick Abejo      DOWNLOAD PROCEDURE: LIKE us on Facebook via our FACEBOOK PAGE widget  FOLLOW us on Twitter via our TWITTER ACCOUNT widget  SHARE this blog on your own Facebook and Twitter account  via SHARE IT widget  ANSWER our SURVEY POOL widget   NOTE: Widgets can be found on the right side portion of this BLOG  CLICK  view on slideshare   button on the left lower corner of this presentation.   CREATE / SIGN UP your own account to  www.slideshare.com.  LOG IN using your own account  SEARCH  Mark Fredderick Abejo   to view all uploaded documents.  DOWNLOAD the document you like.