Skilled Nursing Care at Home
Everything You Should Know About Skilled Nursing Care
Skilled nurses help with several aspects of post-surgical recovery, recuperation following an illness, or management of a chronic health condition that needs special care. Here are the different areas where they assist your dad at home.
Health Checks
When he’s sent home from the hospital after a health event like a heart attack, your dad’s doctors will want him to check his blood pressure regularly. He needs to have his pulse, blood pressure, and even oxygen saturation levels monitored. A skilled nurse can check these readings and record them in his medical chart for his doctors to look at.
Home Catheter Care
Your dad’s coming home, but he’ll have a catheter in place for now. Caring for that is beyond your skill set. A skilled nurse handles catheter care by making sure the catheter is working properly and removing it should he no longer need it in place.
IV Lines, Infusions, and Injections
Your dad has certain medications or infusions of liquids or nutrients that have to be given each day. You cannot set up an IV line, but a skilled nurse can. He won’t have to return to the hospital again and again to get his next infusion or an IV line set up. If there are any medications your dad is given through an injection, he can avoid having to go to this doctor’s office to get them. His skilled nurse can inject the medications he’s prescribed.
Medication Administration
Along with injectable medications, your dad has medications he has to take orally. He can’t keep track of them. Some have to be taken with a meal, others are taken on an empty stomach, and others have to be taken every four hours. Skilled nurses can administer medications. They can discuss medication changes with your dad’s doctors and assist if he’s having stronger side effects than normal.
Patient Education
Your dad’s health requires him to learn how to take care of himself. It might also mean his family caregivers need to learn what to do, too. Skilled nurses can teach patients and their family members what to do. This can include learning how to plan weekly menus and prepare foods that are low-sodium and safe for someone with kidney disease or learning how to cook meals and check blood sugars when you’re diabetic.
Wound Care
If your dad had surgery, he will have incisions that need to be cleaned and bandaged. They need to be checked for signs of infection each day. A nurse can do that and alert your dad’s surgeon if his incision is not healing as expected. Wound care also covers care of things like a sore on the foot that became infected. Your dad’s nurse can change the bandages and clean his sore each day while it heals. Arrange skilled nursing care after talking to his doctors about his care needs when he’s at home. His doctors will have the guidance needed to schedule the skilled nursing care services that will help his recovery the most.
If you or an aging loved one are considering hiring Skilled Nursing in Glenolden, PA, and the surrounding area, please contact the friendly staff at Suma Home Care. (484) 206-4544
Ibrahim recently completed a Professional Certificate in Management; He is currently pursuing a Masters in Business Administrations (MBA) at a prestigious university in the UK.
With their passion for helping others and a strong background in customer services and clinical care, Ibrahim and his wife started assisting individuals in their homes.
Since started and operating Suma Home Care in 2010 in the basement of their home, Suma Home Care has provided professionals who work endlessly in providing clients with the highest quality of care, while enabling clients to maintain dignity, comfort and safety in their homes.
Suma Home Care, serves four counties in Pennsylvania, Delaware, Chester, Montgomery and Philadelphia. Ibrahim is firmly connected to his local community and is always looking for ways to give back whenever the opportunity presents itself.
Ibrahim enjoys spending time with his wife and children, travelling and enjoys sports.
Mariama Suma-Keita BSN RN
Born in Sierra Leone west Africa, relocated to America in 1999 from a civil war and settled since in the U.S.A as a Naturalized citizen Graduated from National school of nursing with an associate , and completed BSN in Nursing from Immaculata University graduated with Honor roll Alpha Lambda sigma, After escaping the war served as a refugee nurse in Gambia and Guinea to other displaced refugees before coming to America.
In the states started in Homecare then then transition into hospital, worked in Jefferson hospital as a Registered nurse on Tele and general medsurg floor, also worked in Einstein hospital as an oncology transplant nurse , I realized that I enjoy working with patients so much and believe in quality and compassionate care one at a time dealing with an holistic approach in caring for patients and family in a familiar environment called home , I see the impact and progress when they’re home , it makes them feel relax and progress fast with recovering at home. As a nurse and entrepreneur I understand that dedication to meeting people and families needs is a priority, and able to foster relationships with family and patients that is professional and friendly to help them stay and settled home as a desire.
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