Visiting Nurse Service (Skilled Home Health Care)
Services
For skilled home health care, the following types of services can be provided:
Nursing:
- Assessing and observing a medical condition
- Teaching about a condition,
such as diabetes or heart failure
- Evaluating the response to a new medicine or to
a change in medicine dosage
- Teaching a new procedure such as an IV or dressing change
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Performing complicated procedures such as a urinary catheter change
Physical Therapy:
- Assessing of patients functional abilities
- Developing a plan to improve walking,
strength, range of motion, coordination, or endurance
- Teaching exercises to improve functional abilities
- Performing specific treatments
Speech and Language Pathology:
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Assessing of disorders that cause communication disabilities or swallowing disorders
- Developing a plan of care to address problems related to speech, communication,
or swallowing
- Teaching about ways to improve speech, communication, or swallowing
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Assisting patients who have aphasia, voice, or swallowing problems
Occupational
Therapy:
- Assessing patients abilities to perform daily tasks such as dressing, eating,
and bathing
- Developing a plan to address problems related to limited use of shoulders,
arms, and hands
- Teaching patients about exercises and ways to increase function
of arms
- Teaching about the use of devices that can help in daily tasks such as dressing,
eating, and bathing
Other services:
For skilled home care can be provided as needed
by the patient's condition. This includes:
- Social service to help with social, emotional,
or financial problems that affect treatment
- Home Health Aide service to assist in
personal care such as bathing and dressing