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Caring Nurses, Inc. is a Full Service Home Health Care Agency.
The home health care services we provide, are:
Skilled Nursing (RN/LPN)
- Pain, Medication Management & Chronic illness (back, hip & joint pain)
- Diabetic Teaching & Management (insulin, foot care, proper nutrition)
- Wound Care Dressing
- Catheter Care
- Colostomy Care
- Teaching safety with: ADLs (bathing, dressing, grooming, toileting, transfers, walking, bed mobility, etc.)
- Teach effective Coping Skills Measures related to illness
Physical Therapy (PT)
- Gait (walk) Training
- Therapeutic Exercises to improve muscle weakness, balance & coordination
- Range of Motion Exercises
- Fall Risk Management
Occupational Therapy (OT)
- Teach compensatory techniques to improve ADLs (feeding / eating, bathing, dressing, grooming, toileting transfers, toileting hygiene, kitchen management & proper body mechanics)
- Low / Impaired Vision & Hearing Therapy (designed to restore Sensory-Integrative Function)
- Memory Retention Activities (to restore short term memory)
- Functional Reach & Dexterity (arthritic & joint pain)
Speech Language Therapy (ST)
- Swallowing, speaking & language (problems with retrieving words)
- Thought organization, problems with sequencing information
- Attention span deficits
Medical Social Worker (MSW)
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Assistance with community resources related to:
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transportation
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housing arrangements, (assisted living facilities / nursing home / other residence)
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home-maker assistance
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medications
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emotional & social distress
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poor coping skills
Certified Nursing Assistance (CNA)
- Hands-on care & assistance with feeding, bathing, dressing, grooming (shaving, skin-lotion, shampooing) and toileting
- Preparing meal
- Light house-keeping
A Case Manager is assigned to each patient and works with the physician to supply the patient with all services required. The Registered Nurse coordinates all care, supervises the ancillary staff and is on-call for problems, should they arise. Caring Nurses, Inc.'s trained, professional staff is committed to:
- Provide the highest level of care.
- Restore the patient's health.
- Maintain and preserve the patient's functional abilities and independence and minimize disabilities.
Recent discharge from hospital or extended care facility, recent injury, accident or surgery, multiple diagnoses/complications, high risk disorders, frequent hospitalizations, acute episodes of chronic disorders, terminal illness treatments and catheters or tube feeding are all qualifications for home health care nursing and therapy.
Our agency will provide comprehensive quality care to individuals and families in their home environment.
Our well trained, professional staff is committed to provide the highest level of care, in order to restore the patient's health, to maintain and preserve their functional abilities and independence and to minimize disabilities. Patients do not have to be hospitalized to qualify for home health care services.
