Skilled Nursing Care Services at Home

There are a lot of different factors to take in when dealing with a medical condition. Or your loved one may have medical needs that go beyond the skills of a family caregiver. For example, if your parent needs injections or maybe needs care relating to an ostomy, skilled nursing care can help with these types of services. In many situations, skilled nursing services are confusing and associated with nursing home care or an acute care center. But, skilled nursing home care really refers to a higher level of care for patients who are at home; home nursing services is another one of the excellent services provided by Centric Healthcare for the residents of Rochester, Minneapolis, St. Paul, and the Twin Cities in Minnesota.

The people on your loved one’s care team can make all of the difference, especially when they are receiving care at home. Your care team includes skilled nursing services; you’ll receive support, additional care, and resources that go well beyond your loved one’s daily medical needs. For example, sometimes you may forget to ask a question while at the doctor’s office, or you don’t think of the question until you and your loved one return home. Your home health care nurse can often answer questions as they come up, and they will take the time to explain the details of your loved one’s condition and treatment.

At the foundation, our skilled nursing home care is our primary goal to make life easier and better for you, your loved one, and your family. Our home health care nurse will focus on the quality of life — especially when working with terminally or chronically ill patients. Our goal is to adapt our services to their unique needs and to promote the highest quality of standard living possible. Our home nursing services are available 24 hours a day, seven days a week to help care for you or your loved one. We provide the best short-term, long-term and transitional skilled nursing at home.

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Our Home Skilled Nursing Services

Skilled nursing services can be carried out in an institutional setting like a hospital, nursing home, or recovery center, but they can also be provided in more private setting like assisted living facilities and your private residence. Regardless of where the care is provided, skilled care most often covers the following needs of the patient:

Skilled nursing services sometimes include end-of-life care or other duties associated with patient recovery, but they are not typically engaged in the duties of a primary caregiver. Regardless of the setting, the objective of skilled care is focused upon those needs directly associated with the patient’s medical needs.

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Utilizing the services of home health care, including an at-home nurse, may shorten hospital stays while allowing you to receive the medical care you need. Centric Healthcare home nursing services offer patients and their families the security of having dedicated skilled nursing at home whenever needed. Our home health care nurse will communicate with your care team members to coordinate the care you need. For other residents of Minneapolis, Rochester, St. Paul, and the Twin Cities, Centric Healthcare provides qualified, compassionate and dedicated home nursing services, even for those times when you or your loved one are the most vulnerable.

Though outpatient occupational therapy performs many of the same functions, it is often critical that these functions are performed in the home to maximize results.

What is Skilled Nursing Care?

Those who need ongoing acute or long-term nursing care during recovery after surgery or a debilitating illness are often in need of skilled nursing care. Skilled nurses work with primary care or specialist physicians in order to carry out technical and critical assignments associated with the physician’s orders. In many cases, skilled nursing care is necessary around the clock for patients with serious health conditions.

A skilled nurse is most often an RN or LVN with adequate training and experience dealing with the patient’s specific condition. A single nurse or team of nurses is often assigned and supervised by a single skilled nurse to make certain that all doctor’s orders are followed and complications are treated immediately. In essence, skilled nurses are your doctor’s right hand when it comes to providing critical care that other caregivers are not adequately trained to perform.

Do I Need a Skilled Nurse?

This question is often answered for you by your primary care physician or the physician who was in charge of your care during and after surgery or after your accident or illness. Regardless of whether you are released to an institution for recovery or to your private residence, your physician will typically request skilled nursing as a part of your release orders. If those directives were not a part of your physician’s orders, then consider the following as reasons for contacting a skilled nurse:

Wound management is beyond expertise of you or your caregiver.
Medication administration is too complicated or dangerous for you or your caregiver to carry out.
You require rehabilitative services as a part of your recovery.
You or your caregiver is unfamiliar or unable to continue utilizing ostomy equipment or catheters.
Any portion of your medical care is beyond the ability of either you or your caregiver to carry out.

Benefits of Skilled Nursing Care at Home

Skilled nursing services do not have to be limited to institutions. In fact, because a patient is often more relaxed in their own home, an in home nurse is often more beneficial for a more rapid recovery. There are numerous other benefits to skilled nursing care at home:

An in-home nurse will help train and supervise you and/or your caregiver in the proper administration of medications, proper rehabilitative measures, the long-term use of ostomy or catheter equipment, and other specialized equipment necessary for your recovery or daily living activities.

Because skilled nursing often makes an enormous difference in your recovery or treatment, an in-home nurse should be high on your list of priorities if you intend to recover from your illness or injury at home or need short-term or extended-term medical care. If a skilled nurse is not ordered by your primary physician, make sure to call and request further information concerning skilled nursing care services.

Choosing a home health care service provider can be overwhelming, so know that if you need any information or have questions and concerns about the services available to the residents of Rochester, Minneapolis, St. Paul, and the surrounding cities of Minnesota, or the qualifications necessary for home care services, please feel free to contact us by phone or online. We will be happy to assist you in any way we can.