Why should you hire a home nurse for your parents? Honestly speaking, it is one of the most frequently asked questions in my career as a home nurse.
As you would expect, home nurses have expertise in taking care of patients with diabetes, osteoporosis, dementia, heart diseases, and many other common old age diseases. They are fully equipped to provide services like how to administer medication, injection and giving them medicines on time, cleaning a patient, they also help a patient who has been recovering after recently being discharged from a hospital. Even if your parents are healthy and well, they still need someone to look after them. Old ones struggle to perform the daily chores on their own.
What makes home nurses unique?
Home nursing services in Islamabad have skilled individuals who know how to perform a wide range of responsibilities like simple house chores such as taking out the trash, cooking and cleaning the house, and keeping the things organized around the house. So, is it really the time to hire a home nurse for your old loved one? Let’s find out!
The Brighter Side of the Picture
Home nursing provides home-based nurses for all types of patients who have been discharged from a hospital or need help for any other services. For an old person who has gone through any surgical or medical procedure which requires special care at home.
There is both male and female nursing staff who are highly skilled in taking care of a patient. Their care is medical as well as non-medical to maintain the quality of life for an old person. The nurses are mostly the individuals who have been equipped professionally to give medical assistance with compassion and love which will put the patient’s family’s mind at ease.
Make sure that the nurses are certified and they also provide services around other cities besides Islamabad, so you don’t have any difficulty in moving.
How to Talk to Your Parents about Getting a Home Nurse?
Talking about additional help can get really tricky. You need to make your parents understand that you’re in no position to help them with their daily tasks. Here are a few ways that you should try:
Talk about the advantages
Begin talking about the advantages of home nursing. List all of the services that the lab also provides. Tell them that they offer medical care service for 24 hours at your own home. Some of their services include:
- Homecare for the elderly
- Physiotherapy at home
- Lab test sample collection at home
- Patient Monitoring
- Moving and Handling
- Post Surgery Patient Care
- Posture Care
- Injections / Infusions
- Feeding
- Medications
- Hygiene
Emergency services at the doorstep
The training program which their caregivers go through consists of how to communicate with the patient and their family and most importantly what actions to take in safety hazards accordingly.
They are providing hospital quality service at your own doorstep. Their nurse care staff is screened properly before being assigned to take care of a patient. Assigning them your home services will be like taking a burden off your shoulders as their nursing staff and nurses are highly experienced in handling a patient at home and at the hospital as well.
They will have a personal assistant
Look for someone who is known as the pioneer of home healthcare in Pakistan. Their services should spread far and wide around the country. Make sure that their home healthcare provider staff is fully equipped with:
- wheelchairs
- cardiac monitors
- nebulizers
- oxygen cylinders
- suction units
- blood pressure apparatus
- first aid kit
Let your parents know that all of the nurses are experienced to provide the complete range of healthcare specializations and ready to help in all means.
