Hesperian Health Guides
Health Care Skills
This book refers to many skills that can help a person give the best care, including how to prevent infections, how to get information about someone’s body by doing exams, how to give life-saving fluids, and how to give injections.
This section gives more complete information about these skills. You may think of these as skills for a doctor or nurse, but they are all skills that anyone can learn with time and practice. Some skills, like giving an exam or an injection, are best learned by having a skilled person show you how. Once learned, all of these skills can make a careful person better able to help others safely.
This page was updated:22 Jan 2024