Skilled Nursing
Nursing
A Compassionate Home Care registered nurse is responsible for:
- Initial evaluation of a patient.
- Preparing an initial plan of care to be finalized with you and your family.
- Review of care plan and re-evaluating needs on a regular basis.
- Providing the services that require more specialized nursing care.
- Planning for preventative and rehabilitative care.
- Preparing clinical notes and informing physicians and others participating in the patient’s care of changes as they occur.
Examples of Patients needing skilled nursing care:
- Patients who require intravenous and intramuscular injections.
- Patients needing Foley catheter insertions.
- Patients with pre-existing peripheral vascular or circular disease (needing observation for complications, pain managment, teaching related to skin care, preservation of skin integrity, and prevention of skin breakdown).
- A patient who requires teaching related to illness or injury until they can demonstrate indepenence in their care.
- Patients in need of medication management which also requires a nursing assessment (such as blood pressures, pulses, repiratory assessment, blood sugars, oxygen saturations), monitoring of medication changes or physician consults.
Compassionate Home Care is an organization that provides both skilled nursing and additional therapeutic services to patients in their homes. We do our very best to give you a sense of security and comfort in knowing you have selected the best in quality home health care services.
