Getting to Know Home Care Services and How It Works

Have you ever thought about doing home care when you are sick? Or maybe there are close relatives who choose to carry out follow-up care at home rather than in the hospital?

Some people may have thought like this, because doing home care will make it easier for family members to take care of their loved ones.

However, you need to know, caring for the sick at home requires skills as well as knowledge so that during the treatment period it can be maximized. Especially if you need medical action, you are required to know very well how it works and the steps for handling it.

If you feel you still lack knowledge and skills in doing home care, you can use home care services.

 

Get to know home care services

Home care itself is a health service that is carried out at the patient's home, handled by nurses who have expertise in the medical field (nurses, doctors, midwives, and others) aiming to help patients recover, improve, and maximize care at home.

Generally, home care services offer services to treat individuals or families with elderly people who need professional care or patients who are continuing care from the hospital.

The nurse will take care of all the needs related to the patient's needs, ensure that their nutritional needs are met, give medication according to the schedule, give full attention, and carry out personal care from bathing, dressing, to accompanying patient activities.

 

How it works and types of home care services

In carrying out nursing actions, nurses cannot act according to their wishes, but must comply with rules that are adjusted to the level of education and experience of the nurse.

Nurses who have a health education background in SMK (Vocational High School) are not allowed to take medical action, but are only allowed to treat the elderly or children.

It is different with nurses who have a D3 or S1 nursing education background. They can only perform medical actions such as installing medical equipment used by home care patients.

medical nurse

Medical nurses can provide services for patients who require the use of medical devices. The nurse concerned must be at least a D3 or S1 nursing graduate who has a valid STR (Surat Tanda Registrasi).

Nurse for the sick

Accompanying and supervising patients who are in the recovery period, such as after surgery, stroke, or in chemotherapy programs is his responsibility. Similar to medical nurses, sick nurses are graduates of D3 or S1 Nursing who do not yet have an STR (Registration Certificate).

Elderly nurse

Nurses who handle the elderly will usually stay to accompany and accompany daily activities at home. For nurses, a minimum education is a Health Vocational School which has also received special training.

Nurses for babies and children with special needs

This service is intended for parents who are still confused about how to care for babies and children with special needs. This treatment is carried out by midwives whose minimum education is D3 Midwifery.

Injury cure

Patients with diabetes mellitus can use this service. The nurse will come every day to check the progress of the patient's condition if the patient does not have some serious illnesses and does not spend too much time, just needs help changing bandages or giving wound medicine depending on the level of the wound.

Care after surgery

This treatment can be used by patients who have had a stroke after surgery. The reason is, the process of treating patients with stroke requires special attention and takes a long time. These services usually include physiotherapy. Not only people with stroke, this service can also be used for patients with cancer, lung infections, mental disorders, depression, meningitis and pneumonia.

 

Benefits of using home care services

The existence of home care services provides many benefits for individuals and families who are doing care at home, including:

Maintenance efficiency

Entrusting treatment to the experts makes the treatment process faster. If the treatment is carried out by non-experts, certain treatment processes will take a long time.

Home care nurses must be professionals, so they know the right way to treat patients.

Time efficiency

Because the treatment is carried out at home, those of you who have busy work can still continue to work. No need to go to the hospital to check your health condition, everything can be done from home by trained and professional medical personnel.

More cost effective

By using home care services, you can save even more. You don't have to spend a lot of money to do treatment in the hospital and pay to go back and forth to visit the hospital.

Make patients more comfortable

A comfortable home atmosphere can bring peace to the patient and allow speeding up the recovery process. In addition to getting attention from nurses, patients also get attention and support from their families at home. This will make the patient more eager to recover.

Quality of care

By doing home care, nurses only focus on one patient. In contrast to the hospital, where patients have to wait their turn to get medical treatment.

Information about the patient's health development can also be obtained quickly and accurately. This is because nurses stay at home and know all the daily activities of patients from waking up to sleeping again.

By using home care services, nurses can help you to meet patient needs, both regarding health problems to information on health developments quickly and accurately.

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