Non-Nursing Services to Help You Stay at Home
Visiting Nurse Home Care can help with a wide range of care; from companionship and hourly help around the home to comprehensive care 24 hours a day. We provide in-home help by trained caregivers. Our caregivers are stringently screened, provided ongoing training and have home health supervision by registered nurses.
Our non-medical services include, but are not limited to:
Housekeeping
- vacuuming
- dusting
- cleaning bathrooms & kitchens
- washing dishes
- laundry
Errands
- transportation
- shopping
- medical appointments
Personal Care
- Companion services
- Bathing and dressing
- Meal preparation
- Medication reminders
- Nail care / Foot care
Skilled Nursing Services
Visiting Nurse Home Care' mission is to help people remain at home - and stay safe, independent and well. Visiting Nurse Home Care offers skilled nursing supervised by a registered nurse and our Director of Clinical Services. Assistance ranges from in-home maintenance care to community wellness screenings.
In-home nursing allows patients to remain at home with fewer visits to their physician or the hospital. The frequency of nursing visits depends on the needs of the client or physician's orders.
Services offered include, but are not limited to:
- Medication management (including filling medisets)
- Wound care / dressing changes
- Catheter care
- Nurse delegation
- Injection training
- Insurance assessments
Community nursing services are available to promote wellness in our communities. Many of these services are offered in the local senior centers, by appointment in areas businesses, or in our offices:
- Wellness screenings (cholesterol, blood glucose, blood pressure, hemocult)
- TB testing
- Immunizations (Hep A&B, tetanus, pneumonia, meningitis, flu)
Supplemental Caregiving
Visiting Nurse Home Care' mission is to help people remain at home - and stay safe, independent and well. However, home may no longer be a house or condo. It may be an apartment in a senior community, an assisted living facility or a private room in an adult family home.
We provide supplemental care when your needs are greater than what can be met by the staff in your living facility.
Our services may include, but are not limited to:
- Extra help with personal care (bathing, medication reminders, etc.)
- Extra housekeeping or transportation
- Respite or companionship
- Maintenance nursing care (catheter care, dressing changes, medication management)
Our home care coordinator will work with you or your family, as well as the management of your living community. We will meet your needs in a discreet, professional manner, but also with the compassion that your own family would provide.
Sun Rise or Sun Set Services ~ Customized Assistance
We offer customized assistance for individual care in the morning or the evening or both.
Morning Assistance ~ 2 hours (any or all services)
- Aid with shower or morning needs
- Help with dressing (buttons, sleeves, shoes, etc.)
- Prepare and serve a nutritious breakfast
- Remind to take morning medications
- Make bed or change linen
- Do load of laundry
- Clean kitchen, wash dishes and neaten bathroom
Evening Assistance ~ 2 hours (any or all services)
- Prepare hot nutritious evening meal
- Clean kitchen and do dishes
- Remind to take evening / night medications
- Empty dryer and fold clean clothes
- Assist with evening bedtime preparations (undressing, washing-up, change into night wear)
- Place days' clothing into laundry container
- Turn down bedding
- Settle into bed or make comfortable if not ready for sleep
- Secure home to ensure doors and windows are locked prior to departing
Family Support
Caring for a loved one who can no longer meet all their own needs is a difficult challenge. The time, energy and emotional investment required can become exhausting Fortunately, we help family caregivers by providing Respite* care.
Respite is defined as "an interval of rest or relief".
We provide Respite Care in the home. A trained person can give family caregivers the opportunity to:
- Focus on their own needs
- Run errands
- Rest, nap, read
- Make personal medical appointments
- Visit with friends
- Renew energy
- Return with a fresh perspective
Respite Care....
peace of mind for family....comfort and safety for a loved one.
Hospice Care
Visiting Nurse Home Care partners with other agencies, individuals and families to assist with hospice care. Our goal is to provide the appropriate level of care to the dying client in a safe and compassionate manner.
We offer two levels of care: Home Care (non-medical) & Home Health. Since hospice clients frequently have significant changes in their abilities as they near death, change of the level of care may become necessary. Initially a Home Care aide may be able to assist with a number of personal care tasks and provide supportive services. However, they have not been trained to provide total care and cannot administer medication.
Our Home Heath aides, however, are trained to provide total bedside care for the dying client, having completed a state-approved nursing assistant training program and certification test. They can administer medications under the direction and supervision of a RN in the home setting. Our RN's assess the needs of the dying patient and develop a plan of care in close cooperation with the hospice team.
Hospice clients may initially be best served by a Home Care aide, however, recommendation will be made to the client and family if a transition to Home Health services becomes necessary.
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