Certified Nursing Assistants & Home Health Aids
All referred Nursing Assistants (CNAs) and Home Health Aides (HHAs) meet all State standards and have verified and appropriate training, licenses, certificates and credentials. In addition, they also meet our high standards related to skill, knowledge, dependability and compassion, plus the have all passed a Florida BGS Level 2 background check.
They provide a variety of services available 24 hours a day, including:
- Assistance with activities of daily living – moving from a bed to a chair, bathing, eating, toileting, walking, bed care/turning/skin monitoring and dressing
- Reinforcement of dressings
- Assisting with the use of devices for aid to daily living such as a wheelchair or a walker
- Assisting with the prescribed range of motion exercises
- Assisting with a prescribed ice cap or collar
- Conducting simple urine tests for sugar, acetone or albumin
- Measuring and preparing special diets
- Measuring temperature, pulse, respiration, blood pressure, intake and output of fluids
- Tasks associated with the use of assistive devices
- Tasks associated with maintaining environment and resident safety
- Tasks associated with health related data gathering
- Recognition and reporting of abnormal findings, signs, symptoms
- Tasks associated with basic first aid, CPR, emergency care
- Tasks associated with nutrition and hydration
- Tasks associated with elimination
- Documenting services provided to the patient
- Maintaining a clean, safe and healthy environment including light housework, washing dishes, doing laundry, changing linens
Assist the patient in the self administration of medication
Our referred companions and homemakers will assist patients and their families by providing services related to:
- Live-in (if needed)
- Companionship to the patient
- Light housekeeping
- Doing dishes
- Laundry
- Making appointments
- Answering the phone/assisting with phone calls
- Transportation to medical appointments, religious services, shopping, visits to friends, etc.
- Outings/recreation
- Meal preparation
- Errands and shopping
- Pet care
- A chronological written record of services
- Reports of any unusual incidents or changes in the patient’s behavior
Registered Nurses
Our qualified, reliable and compassionate referred RNs are on call 24 hours a day – 7 days a week – every day of the year. They are responsible for providing care to patients, assessing the patient’s condition, supervising caregivers and reporting to the patient’s physician.They provide care and services related to:
• Assessment of care
• Private care
• Medication Management
• Pain control issues
• Diabetes
• Alzheimer’s/Dementia
• Parkinson’s Disease
• Hospice/End of Life
• Orthopedics
• Helping patients and families understand and follow physician’s orders regarding nutrition, special diets, medications, general nursing care
• Post operative care (includes out-patient surgeries)• Wound care• Custodial care• Critical care/ventilator dependent/life support
• Oncology
• Geriatrics
• Tube feeding
• Ventilator care
• Injections
• IV therapy
• PICC line care
• Case management
• International RN travel escorts