Definition, Types, Benefits, and Principles of Home Care

Understanding Home Care

In simple terms, the notion of home care is health care services carried out by professional health workers to individuals or families at home.

Even though it is only done at home, care services are still in accordance with applicable standards like in a hospital.

Home care focuses on caring, nurturing, and assisting children or infants, adults, and the elderly or elderly.

 

Types of Home Care Health Services

Each service provider such as a company or nursing foundation has different health services, but in general, home care services are divided into three types, namely:

• Medical professional nurse.
• Professional nurse for babies and children.
• Nurse or caregiver for the elderly.

All of these home care nurses have different scopes and responsibilities according to the patient's condition, here are the details:

• Medical services and nursing care.
• Social services.
• Rehabilitation and physical therapy services.
• Personal hygiene and sanitation services.

In addition, home care nurses must have a health background and experience in their respective fields.

 

Home Care Benefits

Health care carried out at home or home care is very beneficial for service users for the following reasons:

• Cheaper cost.
• More comfortable.
• Treatment is just as effective as in a hospital or health facility.
• Faster service.
• The service is more perfect, holistic, and comprehensive.
• Can be adapted to the needs and circumstances of the patient.

Not only that, the home care nurse service at MHomecare will be directly accompanied and supervised by a doctor, so that the treatment will be much more perfect.

 

Home Care Principle

There are various principles of home care services which consist of:

• Manage and implement nursing services performed by health workers in accordance with the patient's condition at home.
• Carry out each action based on the concept of nursing.
• Perform nursing documentation in a systematic, accurate, comprehensive, and sustainable manner.
• Always rely on the data from the assessment to carry out further nursing diagnoses.
• Develop a nursing plan from nursing diagnoses that have been made, especially those related to prevention, therapy or recovery.
• Perform nursing services to provide comfort that has an impact on improving healing and preventing complications.
• Conduct ongoing evaluation of nursing services provided to patients and families.
• Fully responsible for nursing services performed to patients or families using case management.
• Maintain and maintain good relations with all members of the health workforce team.
• Improving the professional competence of individuals as well as other teams of health workers.
• Participate and contribute to research activities related to the development of knowledge of home care health nursing services.
• Uphold the nursing code of ethics every time you perform home care nursing services.

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