What services can a home health care nurse provide?

Some ways a home health care nurse may assist patients:

• Reception and delivery of the patient.

• Keep the area clean and tidy: Room, bathroom and spaces used by the patient.

• Assistance, support and monitoring condition of patient

• Helping change position every two hours for immobilized or dependent patients in bed

• Assistance in getting to the bathroom or use of bedpans.

• Medication administration: as prescribed by the doctor

• Accompaniment to medical appointments

• Total or partial assistance in feeding

• Monitoring of vital signs at start and end of shift

• Oral care and dental prosthesis

• Getting to the bathroom, bedpans and/or diaper change

• Urgency or emergency management

• Assistance in dressing

• Listen to doctors medical instructions and clarify/explain to patient and family members

• Shower bath assistance

• Sponge bath in bed

• Emotional support for the patient

• Passive mobilization of upper and lower limbs

• Filling out nursing forms

• Prevent falls, inside and outside the home

• Patient personal care; bathing, combing hair, dressing. (Depending on patient’s ability)

• Assistance in transferring from one place to another

• Specialized nursing care (taking vital signs, blood pressure, heart rate, injections, glucose monitoring, dialysis, gastrostomy, tracheostomy, oxygen, etc.)

• Management of medical equipment

• Postoperative care: healing, wound/incision care, hydration, mobilization

• Prepare, reheat light foods and wash dishes used.

• Education for health

• Preventing accidents from bedroom to bathroom

• Perform nursing diagnosis

• Mental stimulation activities, music, writing, reading, crosswords etc