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Lesson 40

Lesson Title: "Health Care in the Home"

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OBJECTIVE:

Each young woman will recognize the value and benefit of good health care in the home.

PREPARATION:

  1. Make a copy of the "True or False Test" for each young woman (see page 180).
  2. If you wish, assign young women to present stories, scriptures, and quotations.

ATTENTION GETTER:

Ask the young women to relate personal experiences of taking care of someone who was ill in their home. What did they learn from this experience? What did they wish they had known when they were helping care for that person?

LESSON:

Lesson 40 at lds.org

CONCLUSION:

It is important to know first-aid practices and other home health-care skills. We should learn about and keep current with new procedures. Knowing simple and correct procedures makes caring for others easier and may save lives.

Ask class members which of the following areas they would like more instruction in.

With the approval of your priesthood leader, plan such demonstrations for a weekday activity. Do not demonstrate these on a Sunday.

a. A mother who is trained or experienced in child care, or a nurse, could be invited to demonstrate care of an infant, such as bathing and feeding.

b. A qualified person such as a Scoutmaster, Red Cross volunteer, doctor, or nurse could be invited to demonstrate how to do mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, how to use the Heimlich maneuver for someone who is choking, how to apply pressure to stop bleeding, and how to treat a person who is in shock.

2. Have a qualified person demonstrate home nursing skills, such as changing sheets while a patient is in bed, taking a pulse, and taking a temperature.

3. As a class, role-play how to telephone for emergency help to the fire department or poison control center, giving proper identification, the address, and the nature of the emergency.

4. Encourage the young women to enroll in a Red Cross course in first aid or home nursing or other similar available courses.

HANDOUT:

Print this paper off onto a red color paper. Cut apart and glue onto the front of a BIG bandaid for each young woman.

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MID-WEEK ACTIVITY IDEA:

Have someone from your community, a nurse or someone certified in CPR come in and teach the youth.