Using A Private Duty Nurse Helps The Family

By Marci Glover


People, usually the elderly, when they are in the hospital for any length of time, need help from a number of professionals. The need for assistance in many things, not just medical, makes them vulnerable to their infirmities, even if only temporarily. This is the perfect time to hire a private duty nurse for assistance.

What these nurses are able to do in the hospital is take all of the readings and monitor all of the devices the regular staff can not do easily. Readings for blood pressure and heart rate monitoring are just a few They can perform the vital tasks of intake and outflow measurements and documenting same. This will be in preparation for the doctors analyzing them for adjustments to care.

These nurses are not just valuable in the hospital, however, and more care is needed in the home when the patient leaves. Family members often can not devote all the time that is needed for these tasks and the professional nurse can do this as this will be their only job. Family members will have to be taught how to bathe the patient, especially if they can not get to the bathtub.

The private nurse will have had to undergo course courses in basis health studies as well as nursing practices to begin their career as a nurse. This is followed by, usually, study and training rounds at a teaching hospital. Many of them will have been to four years of college and certified as a registered nurse, yet not joined any hospital staff.

Private nurses of all specialties will need to be well informed about their patients. They will also need to become personally aware of their moods and eccentricities. This is important as many of those changes can indicate something that tests will not show. The family benefits from this as they do not have the time to do this even if they are trained to do so.

The professional you hire should have knowledge about a lot of different situations that will arise. The need for spinal injury or catastrophic injury care is all too real in these situations. Ventilators will need to be dealt with as well as insulin pumps and seizure control methods. These are all on this very short list of needed knowledge and skill sets.

Hiring a private nurse should cause you to be careful about who you get to attend to your loved one. They must have the experience that is required for the patient and an organization to back them up should they be unable to be be there because of illness. They must be certified for the position in your state which does change from area to area and have the temperament to do what needs to be done in your place.

Getting this type of help for your family member is important. This is the case whether he or she is in a care facility, the hospital or at home. Checking with the insurance company for possible payment of this is important. However, no one can place a price on the peace of mind you will have when your loved one is taken care as well as possible.




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