Essay On Home Care Experience

On November 9, I visited six clients with the home health care nurse Kim. Kim is a home health nurse who has been in the nursing field for the past 26 years and in the home health care nursing for about 6 years. One of the hard things about home healthcare for me was not knowing what to expect when I first walked into a client home yet, I hard a great teaching and learning experience. When we first meet in the morning we sit down and went over the schedule Kim has made on what client we will visit at what time and then we jot down main things we needed to do for each client as we visit them. Kim mentioned to me that most of the client she meet within this areas are mostly depressed. One of the clients we visited was Mr. J.G a 63 years old …show more content…
to check and treat patient oxygen saturation. Mr. J. did not have any durable medical equipment like oxygen when he got discharge from the hospital. Since Mr. J was instructed by his doctor not to drive for the 6 weeks after his surgery, his sons or his neighbor picks up his medication for him from the local pharmacy. Mr. J’s support systems are his two sons and his neighbor. Yes, there are qualifications that an individual must meet for home health care. The qualifying requirements are assessed while the patient is in the hospital; some of the requirements include coverage of insurance, patient’s health status, patient’s support system and patient’s willingness to have a home health care. Due to his surgery Mr. J is not able to leave the home for his care by himself he needs other people help. The team Kim works with work together to make sure their patient success by charting and by calling each other at the end of the day to update each patient status with each other, also by constantly educating the patient and family, by setting up appointment for them with their doctors also helping the client find a way of transportation to get to their