Home Care: Facility Care
When your loved one is in the hospital or nursing home, you want to be there every minute, but you simply can’t.
- Facility Care
Our Facility Care Service Options
When your loved one is in the hospital or nursing home, you want to be there every minute, but you simply can’t.
We know the difficulties that you face when you have a loved one in the hospital or nursing home. You want to provide the elements of a well-supported facility stay: safety, company and comfort. You long for peace of mind that someone is watching your loved one when you’re not. Facility personnel may be short-handed so the need to supplement the care that they provide has been widely recognized.
- Keeping the patient under constant view during entire assigned shift
- Supervising the patient through the night
- Monitoring patient’s condition and activity
- Alert facility staff at the first sign of a concern
- Seeking assistance from facility staff as needed
- Maintaining emergency contact information and important legal documents
- Engaging patient through conversation, reading, games, etc.
- Assisting with feeding and personal hygiene
- Offering medication reminders and post-surgery precautions
- Supporting patient’s comfort level
- Follows emergency procedures in the event of any incident, e.g. accident, injury, or significant change in patient’s condition
- Reporting any changes in patient’s mental or physical condition, as well as suspicion of ingesting questionable substances, or items brought to the room by visitors to the staff nurse
A facility sitter does not give medications or insert IVs and must not interfere with the facility staff; they provide vigilance that can reduce the risk of infection and falls, and the personal touch that allows the patient’s energy to be directed toward healing.