24-Hour Total Care Home Nursing Services in Forest Park, GA & Clayton County

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HOME CARE SERVICES

We strive for a coordinated, consistent, interdisciplinary approach to patient care that allows us a better understanding of our patients. This helps us to develop individualized care plans to assure the personal dignity and physical safety of our patients. Our team approach results in a more effective and efficient way to care for our patients and assists them to attain or maintain the highest level of self-care possible.

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24-Hour Total Care Services

Provides total care for all needs who have physical limitations and are unable to provide care for themselves.

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HOME CARE SERVICES

Daily Care Assistance and Services

Provides day or night sitter services, holiday and weekend services, hospital to home services, shopping services, light housekeeping services, meal plan, and prep services.

Hourly Care Services

Provides medical appointment escort services, assistance with bathing and dressing for a special outing, or when the caregiver has other outings to attend.

Vacation Escort and Assistance Services

Provides care services for family vacations that can include their loved one or allows short-term live-in while the primary caregiver is away.

Monitoring Vital Signs & Body Systems

Our skilled nurses can help monitor vital signs, including body temperature, blood pressure, heart rate, and respiration rate. Constant monitoring of vital signs allows healthcare professionals to identify the possibility of underlying illnesses through fluctuations in a patient’s vitals.

Pain Management

Pain can be a dull ache or a sharp stab at any part of the body, which can range from mild to extreme. Understanding the cause and learning effective ways to cope with pain can improve quality of life. Our professionals can help you or your loved ones cope with pain.

Injections, IV Fluids, Infusion Services & Education

Often effective when oral antibiotics have proven ineffective. These can be performed on an outpatient basis, allowing the patient to remain at home, and is easier to administer to patients who may resist taking pills.

Post Hospital & Rehabilitation Care

Our nurses are responsible for taking care of a patient after they undergo a surgical procedure. Specific responsibilities include close supervision and care immediately following surgery, routine daily monitoring, and care plan management.

Emergency Preparedness & Environmental Safety

A continuous cycle of planning, organizing, training, equipping, exercising, evaluating, and taking corrective action to ensure effective coordination during incident response. Our skilled nurses are highly trained and prepared to keep patients safe when emergencies occur.

Patient Education

Patient education is the process by which health professionals and others impart information to patients and their caregivers that will alter their health behaviors or improve their health status.

Nutritional Counseling

Nutritional counseling is an assessment made to analyze various lifestyle modifications needed involving a person’s diet and exercise. Our nutritional counselors help patients set achievable health goals and teach ways of maintaining these goals throughout their lifetime.

Medication Management

Our medication management therapy ensures that patients are receiving optimal outcomes from their prescription medications. In this service, we also perform medication reconciliation by providing a comprehensive assessment of all existing and new medications prescribed to a patient. Special attention is given to medication adherence, side effects, drug interactions, and other concerns.

Diabetes, Cardiac & Respiratory Care

Our professionals will first assess the illness experienced by a patient, including the impacts this has on their health and overall well-being. They will monitor the illness and any fluctuation in a patient’s vital signs. Lastly, they will review the patient’s medications and treatments to ensure they are receiving the care they need.

Geriatric Assessments

Assessments for older adults with a focus on and in the context of health, wellness, and chronic illness. This is a cognitive and physical assessment used to measure the function of older adults. We discuss the various types of social, lifestyle, safety, and risk assessments and their relevance to the transition to their specific plan of care.

Wound Care Services and Education

Care provided by a Licensed Nurse according to the ordering Physician or for long-term wound maintenance and patient/caregiver education about wound prevention and infection control.

Pressure Ulcer Prevention and Treatment

Conceptualize Holistic Approaches to Wound Prevention and Treatments. Development and implementation of an individualized skin care program that offers modern treatment principles and interventions for patients suffering from pressure ulcers.

Memory Care Services

The first step in caring for people living with dementia in any setting is to understand and identify changes in behavior (e.g., increased agitation, confusion, sudden sadness). Changes in behavior can be an indication of worsening stress and anxiety and these worsening symptoms of dementia should be evaluated every time care is provided to meet the unique needs of patients with dementia.

Holistic and Integrative Nursing Practices

Our knowledge of dietary supplements gives us an understanding of how to participate in shared decision-making with patients who are choosing dietary supplements for use in self-care. We understand how therapies such as natural products, mind and body practices, and aspects of traditional healing systems can be incorporated into everyday nursing care.

Infection Prevention and Control

Infection prevention strategies are vital to prevent the spread of disease and COVID-19. We remain vigilant in following recommended infection prevention practices such as social distancing, washing hands, avoiding touching the face, and wearing a cloth face covering for source control. We also ensure staff has PPE and supplies needed for patient care. Provide EPA-registered disposable disinfectant wipes so that commonly used surfaces can be wiped down.

Respite Care

Provides short term relief for primary caregivers, can be arranged for just an afternoon or several days/weeks. Can be provided in the home or a healthcare facility.

Lab Services

In-home visits for laboratory services primarily to homebound patients provide a convenient way for you to have your blood and other medical samples collected in your home at a time that’s convenient for you.

COVID Care

We offer Covid 19 care plans for patients in the home care setting and meet the needs of the patient suffering from mild to moderate symptoms. Covid 19 can result in a host of complications for these patients and our care plans provide the patient with interventions that focus on the respiratory, cardiovascular, neurological and renal systems. Having an effective care plan may help reduce mortality.

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