Lesson Plan on• TRAUMA SERVICE• OLD AGE HOME• ORPHANAGE• HOME FOR DESTITUTE

Presented ByDipinti Lakha

4th BSc NursingKarnataka College of Nursing

TRAUMA CARE SERVICES

Trauma Care ServicesTrauma is defined as injury that results when energy is transferred from the environment to human tissue. Injuries are major causes of disability in the United States accounting more deaths annually. Injury is the fifth leading cause of death in all groups and the number one killer of persons 1 to 34 years old. Every emergency nurse must be prepared to care for critically injured trauma patient.

Trauma Care Services

In medicine, Trauma (injury) is damage to a biological organism caused by physical harm from an external source

Types of Trauma

• Major Trauma :- Trauma with heavy injury to the body

• Minor Trauma :- Trauma that cause less injury to the body

Care of Trauma Patient• Establishment and maintain an adequate

airway• Ensure effective ventilation• Control hemorrhage• Initiate continuous cardiac monitoring• Place a nasogastric or orogastric tube

Care of Trauma Patient• Collect and send appropriate laboratory

studies• Initiate continuous monitoring of O2

saturation• Monitoring vital signs • Give comfort measures

OLD AGE HOMES

Old Age HomeA retirement home is sometimes called an old age home. It can also be said as a multi residence housing facility intended for senior citizens.• Relevance of old age homes in India• Migration of young couples from the rural

areas to cities in search of better employment opportunities to fend for themselves.

Old Age Home• Elders who have been in control of the

household for a long time are unwilling to give the responsibility to their children.

• Youngsters on their part are sometimes resentful of the attitude of their parents

• Many youngsters have moved to places far away from their native homes and in the recent past to many countries abroad. So even if they want to they cannot accommodate their parents in their own homes.

Old Age Home• Elders are sometimes too incapacitated or

unwell to look after themselves or get medical care especially in an emergency. All these have made the old age homes seem more relevant in the Indian context than ever before.

Types of Old Age Home

• Free Old Age HomeIt cares for the destitute old people who have no one else to care for them. They are given shelter, food, clothing, and medical care

Types of Old Age Home

• Paid Old Age HomeIt is a type of old age home where care is provided for a fee. Either the senior citizen himself should pay or any one from his family should pay for the care provided.

Nowadays such “Retirement” homes have become very popular in India and they are well worth considering.

ORPHANAGE

OrphanageOrphanage is the name to describe a residential institution devoted to the care of orphan children whose parents are deceased or otherwise unable to care them. Parents and sometimes grand parents are legally responsible for supporting children but in the absence of these or relatives willing to care for the children, they become a ward of the state and orphanages are a way of providing for their care and housing. Children are educated within or outside of the orphanage.

Charities• SOS children’s village is the world’s largest

non governmental, non denominational child welfare organization. It’s mission is to provide stable homes and loving families for orphaned and abandoned children around the world

• Dr. Barnardo's Home• The Miracle Foundation is concerned with

helping orphans in India

ORPHANAGE IN INDIA• Seva Sandan Orphanage & Training

Institute, Koramangala• Emmanuel Children Home Society, Hayath

Nagar• Holy Cross Social Service Centre• Life Giving Home Charitable Trust• Society for Upliftment of Blind

HOMES FOR DESTITUTE

Destitute Any person found begging in a public place in such a way as to cause or likely to cause annoyance to persons frequently the place or otherwise to create a nuisance.Any idle person found in a public place, whether or not he is begging who has visible means of subsistence or place of residence or is unable to give a satisfactory account of himself.

DestitutionDestitution is a state of object poverty, a state of extreme deprivation whereby a family is not able to obtain even the minimum quantity of food for the survival its members. Destitute population is treated as living below the poverty line. India has a population of more than 300 million living below the poverty line

Causes of Poverty

• Unemployment• Distorted socio-economic development • Unequal distribution of national wealth• Decreasing allocations on health, housing,

nutrition and education• Increasing allocations on non-productive

ventures of false prestige

Causes of Poverty

• Crime and corruption• Political system based on casteism

communalism dynastism and mutual hatred

• Problem of mounting debt burden due to years of misappropriation

Problem Outcomes• Poor housing• Insanitary surrounding• Underfeeding• Under nutrition• Illiteracy and ignorance• Not getting food for survival• High morbidity, mortality and high fertility

rates

Management • Consideration for poor by the government• Development of homes• Poverty alleviation through employment

generation• Vocation oriented education• Family planning approaches

Management

• Taking of finger impressions and photographs

i. The director may authorize the taking of finger impressions and photographs of any destitute person residing in a welfare home

Management ii. After the expiry of two years from the date of discharge of a destitute person from a welfare home, the Director shall on the application from that person deliver to him the sheet upon which finger impression have been made together with the negatives and copies of photographs taken of him and if no such application is received after the said period of 2 years and before the expiry of 3 years from the date of discharge those records shall be destroyed

Management iii. The director may retain 3 copies of the photographs taken of the destitute person for maintaining a register of destitute person admitted to and discharged from welfare homesiv. Minister may establish welfare homesThe Minister may appoint superintendents and others officers for the management of such welfare homes.Every superintendents or officer shall be deemed to be a public servant within the meaning of the Penal code

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