Community Health Volunteer's Training Manual - Population Council

Exercise 4.1.5
Objective
1. To discuss the need for items
volunteers carry on home visits
Questions
1. What items should a volunteer carry
along during home visits?
2. Why is it necessary to carry along
these items?
Box 4.1.6
Instructions to the Facilitator
1. Lead a discussion on items
volunteers carry along during
home visits
2. Discuss the need to carry these
items
3. Compare responses with
those in Box 4.1.6 and update
accordingly.
Home Visiting
Why carry items during home visits?
You may meet a client/patient/case that needs immediate attention:
1. ORS for a child with diarrhoea
2. FP devices (Condoms, Pills) for a client/couple
3. A needy client who has no access to health care
4. Need to educate a mother or client about common disease problems using IEC materials
5. Need to write down your observations, referrals made, defaulters traced and summary of
facts.
Topic 3 Role of the volunteer in home visiting
Your role as a volunteer is to help families improve their own health. The volunteer identifies
barriers that prevent families from adopting behaviours that will improve their health.
Building on what they already know and have, the volunteer assists families to take the
necessary actions to improve their own health.
Note that the way you interact with people can help you work better than all your technical
knowledge. When you are friendly and pleasant with your community members, they are
more likely to take your advice.
What your clients do about what you tell them depends on what they think and feel about
you. So be respectful and patient, and treat your clients as special people.
Exercise 4.1.6
Objective
1. To demonstrate the outcome of an
unplanned home visit
Time – 20 minutes.
Instructions to the Facilitator
1. Guide participants to role-play a
poorly planned home visit
2. Use the SHOWED approach to
process the role-play.
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