When Should You Bring in Nursing Support at Home

Many people with older parents or relatives wait until crisis hits before considering nursing care, but early support and intervention can keep your loved ones at home longer. An assessment from one of Luxe Care’s Registered Nurses can identify gaps in care before they become much larger problems.

Nurses assist with a range of issues, including:

• Managing complex medication

• Attending to or replacing dressings

• General wound care

• Helping manage chronic conditions

• Monitoring symptoms and reporting changes as early as possible

• Helping families understand what is best for their loved ones

• Liaising with GPs or specialists

These tasks can quickly become overwhelming without clinical oversight. Nurse care can help you and your loved ones stabilise routines, reduce risks, and give your family a sense of reassurance and confidence.

Changes in cognition are another area of difficulty nurses can assist with. Confusion, forgetfulness, or trouble following medical instructions can lead to errors, tension or missed appointments. The reassuring care of a nurse can help ease concerns your loved one may have.

After a hospital stay, short-term nursing can bridge the transition home. This support reduces readmissions by monitoring wound healing, pain, mobility and hydration. It gives the client time to regain strength and allows for safe healing.

Nursing care means nurses can help educate families and clients to better understand what care is best for each individual. This is critical for people with new diagnoses or complex care plans.

If your current situation is bringing stress, fear or a sense of overwhelm when considering the future, bringing in nursing care can help build a safer home with protective and preventative care and knowledge. Nurses strengthen your sense of safety, support independence and reduce emergency situations or hospital trips that can derail ageing at home.

Luxe Care’s Care Managers are all Registered Nurses or have extensive nursing experience. You are in qualified, trustworthy hands and clinical care is just a phone call away.

Call today on 1300 674 886.