Benefits of Hiring a Home Health Nurse.

If you have an aging parent or other family member that you are taking care of, there will likely come a time when you can’t do it on your own anymore. This means you have to make a serious decision about your loved one’s care.

One top choice these days is to hire a home health nurse. A home health nurse is a trained nurse who comes to your home to administer care. This is becoming a trend as explained in this article.

More and more people are seeing the benefits in having a trained health professional come to their homes to take care of their loved one. In fact, there are quite a few benefits that you should consider if you are thinking about taking this step.

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Put Off the Need for a Nursing Home
Perhaps the biggest reason why people are choosing home health care is that it allows them to keep their loved one at home longer. The only real alternative to home care would be putting the person in a nursing home where they could get similar care. Allowing aging persons to stay in their own homes has proven to help with maintaining the quality of life, including making them feel comfortable, happy, and secure. Many times, it can also help with quicker healing and fewer issues with degenerative diseases, like Alzheimer’s.

Save Money
Hiring a home health caregiver may seem like it would be the most expensive option, but in many cases, it is actually the more affordable option. Moving a family member to a nursing home is a huge expense. You are paying for somewhere for them to live and for all their care needs, including food. It can get costly. With a home health nurse, you are able to keep them in their home, which is likely already paid for, and avoid having to pay additional fees.

Quality Care
When you hire a home caregiver, you are getting someone who is highly trained. They are able to provide the same services your loved one would get at a hospital. Most caregivers will be nurses who have a degree, like one from the University of Cincinatti. They have work experience and the ability to handle medical treatments, drug administration, and any emergency that could come up. In addition, they can monitor your loved one’s condition to ensure he or she is getting the proper level of care and that any new issues are addressed quickly.

Hiring someone to care for your loved one is a tough decision. While it is fairly easy to see all the benefits, it can still be difficult sometimes to realize your loved one needs this extra care. However, you can rest assured that your loved one will get great care that is affordable and comprehensive. Knowing a caregiver is available can help you, too. It can give you a peace of mind because you know that your loved one is able to remain in his or her home and live his or her life as he or she always has while also getting the needed healthcare.

Caring and Parentgiving.

I've mentioned before that I come from a clan of teachers and nurses. While the teachers in our family specialize mostly in one field, which is elementary education, the nurses on the other hand, have different specializations.

There's Mum, who is a Cardiology Nurse at the Royal Free Hospital in London. My favorite uncle, now based in Arizona, is a Dialysis Nurse, whose wife is a Navy Nurse. Two of my cousins, meanwhile, are well on their way to become Pathology Nurses. And then there's my Aunt (Mum's one and only sister), a Geriatrics Nurse who specializes in the care of the elderly.

Before moving to London, my Aunt's first overseas job was at a nursing home in California, where her work is no different from the in-home care provided by ParentGiving.com. Her clinical duties revolved around the physical and mental care of elderly patients. Typical responsibilities of this job include performance of routine and prescribed tests, administering of prescribed medication, and organization of patient records. As a geriatrics nurse, she is also responsible for the general care of her patients, which include feeding, bathing, and cleaning patients - even changing their adult plastic pants and cloth diapers.

Being a nurse sure is a challenge, all the more because you deal with the health and well-being of another person. It's amazing how much nurses and health care providers can do to help save lives, whereas as I can't even stand the sight of blood. So don't be surprised if I didn't follow the footsteps of my Mum and my other relatives. I might not even make it to Clinical Practice year if I did.