Intermittent skilled nursing visits and the RN provides supervision to the paraprofessional staff. The nurse providing nursing care to patients will perform the following functions:
- Assessment of psychosocial needs
- Assessment of physical status
- Assessment of safety factors and needs
- Assessment of response to medications and treatments
- Patient/significant other/caregiver education
- Monitoring of safety and function of DME
- Supervision of Aides
- Coordination of Services
- Clinical conferencing with other members of the healthcare team
Services provided by the nurse will be related to the patient’s diagnoses/problems; they include the following where applicable:
- Monitoring of vital signs
- Auscultation of lungs
- Height/Weight measurements
- Supervision of medications, including effects, side effects, and related teaching
- Instruction and supervision of diet
- Instruction in illness prevention
- Rehabilitation nursing, active and passive range of motion exercises, breathing exercises
- Instruction in safety measures
- Emotional support
- Any other nursing procedure ordered by the patient’s physician
- Recommendations for referrals
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