Bed Bathing: Introduction (Nursing)

00:04 Welcome to bathing a client in the bed and making an occupied bed.

00:08 This is a really helpful skill for the patient because it helps promote dignity and comfort.

00:14 Now most of the time when we bathe the client in the bed, we will soil their linen, they'll get wet, and they'll definitely need a bed change, so you're post of in going to change the bed or the occupied bed.

00:25 So we'll talk you through these skills.

00:28 So let's look at the bed bath specifically first.

00:31 So let's take a look at some of the things we're going to need.

00:34 We're going to need a bath blanket, and your facility are going to have these and typically that's going to differentiate from a regular blanket you use on a patient's bed.

00:43 We're going to use a skin cleanser.

00:45 Now this is important because usually your hospital facility will have a specific mild skin cleanser.

00:52 Now this is going to be patient's preference, sometimes they may want to use their own.

00:56 Also make sure you have plenty of towels and wash cloths.

00:59 Now it's great to have a bath basin for example, that way we can put the mild soap in the water and also our wash cloths.

01:08 And we want to make sure we have fresh linens and a fresh patient gown, so after the bath we can change these for the patient.

01:15 And don't forget about a hairbrush or comb after the bath is complete.

01:24 Hi, guys. Welcome to the skill doing a bed bath.

01:27 So before we get started we have a couple of things we need to cover.

01:30 Also if you have help, I got help here, Dean with me today.

01:35 He's going to help me do a bed bath.

01:37 So just know it's great to have two people.

01:39 If you don't, and your patient can help you, you can definitely give a bed bath by yourself, just remember safety throughout.

01:46 Okay, so before we get started, we performed our hand hygiene and put on our gloves.

01:51 Also, before you get started with your patient, make sure you have all the supplies that you need.

01:56 Okay, so let me talk you through a couple of these.

01:58 So because we're going to get the patients gown wet and the linens wet, it's always great to have a fresh set of linens, so make sure you have that.

02:06 Also a really nice helpful tip is use something called a bath blanket.

02:11 So these look like the white blankets basically in the hospital, it's going to look like this.

02:15 So this is really helpful to promote privacy, also kind of help prevent chilling as well when you're doing a bed bath for your patient.

02:23 Make sure you have plenty of towels, plenty of extra washcloths as well, and depending on what you need, this is really great to help you.

02:32 This is a bath basin.

02:34 So this is what we're going to use to put our lukewarm water or our warm water in and our mild soap.

02:40 Now, sometimes, you may just give a very quick bath with maybe bath wipes for example looking like this.

02:47 So these are really handy, but, they're not near as thorough as giving a good old fashioned water-soap bed bath.

02:55 So today, the water-soap bed bath is what we're going to demonstrate for you.