NURSING
- Nurses promote health, prevent disease and help patients cope with illness.
- They have a unique scope of practice and can practice independently, although they also collaborate with all members of the health care team to provide the care needed by each patient as an individual.
- Is a wide range of health care services that can be given in your home for an illness or injury.
- Light housekeeping & other household chores such as washing clothing an dishes.
- Running errands such as grocery shopping
- Planning and scheduling appointments and social activities
- Transportation to appointments and other activities
- Preparing meals
- Socialization and Entertainment
- Communicating with family members and other care team professional and more
- Turns or move patients.
- Gathering medical supplies.
- Grooming patients by brushing their hair, teeth, shaving them, etc.
- Feeding patients and documenting their food and liquid intake.
- Checking vital signs such as blood pressure and heart rate.
- Answering patient calls.
- Home Health Aides help patients in in a variety of ways, which may include taking their vital signs or reminding them to take their medicine under a nurse's direction.
- They must record and report this data as medically necessary. Aides also help patients with their daily functions, such as dressing or taking other meetings and may organize transportation for them.
- consulting with patients to learn about their physical condition and symptoms.
- Diagnosing movement dysfunction and developing a treatment plan.
- Teaching patients how to properly use therapeutic exercise techniques.
- Providing stimulation or massage to promote healing.
OCCUPATIOANL THERAPY
- Will treat injured, ill or disabled patients through the therapeutic use of everyday activities. They help develop, recover, improve, as well as maintain the skills needed for daily and working living.
SPEECH THERAPY
- Asses, diagnose, treat and help to prevent communication and swallowing disorders in children and adults,
RESPITE/HOSPICE
- Respite- provides short-term relief for caregivers. Care can be arranged for several days or weeks. Care can also be provided at home, in a healthcare facility, or at an adult day center.
- Hospice-special care that focuses on the quality of life for people and caregivers who are experiencing an advanced, life-limiting illness.
- Hospice care provides compassionate care for people in the last phases of incurable disease so that they may live as fully and comfortably as possible.
INTERVENTIONS
- A mental health specialist who can diagnose the issue and build a strategy to solve it
- This person will help the patient come out of their trauma by intervening in the patient's life and treating the hidden psychiatric disorder.
Create Your Own Website With Webador