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General Medicine Services
Nursing services available in the home:
- Skilled assessment and evaluation
- Wound care
- Nurse consult for wound, ostomy and/or continence care
- Use of wound vac
- Disease process teaching
- Diabetic management
- Infusion therapy
- Colostomy, catheter
- Nutrition assessment and management
- Post-operative care
- Medication management teaching and monitoring
- Pain management
- Care for complex medical conditions such as:
- Cardiac conditions that require teaching and/or new medications
- Heart failure patients on telemonitoring
- Respiratory: COPD, asthma, monitoring pulse oxygen saturation
- Cancer care: symptom management
- Diabetes management: glucometer education, insulin administration, diet
- Anticoagulation: teaching and monitoring with use of INRatio monitor
Rehabilitative services available in the home
Infusion services available in the home
- Infusion teaching
- Intravenous line management and education
- Lab support services
- Monitoring of treatment effectiveness
- Pharmacist and/or dietician consultation and management available
Infusion therapies
- Parenteral nutrition therapies (TPN/Enteral)
- Antimicrobial therapies: antibiotics, antifungals, antivirals
- IVIG/Vevoglobin/Factor
- Cardiac therapies
- Rheumatoid therapies
- Pain management
- Blood disorder therapies: factor
- Cancer-related therapies, such as chemotherapy, antiemetics and injectable teaching
- Peg tube care and education
For more information or to refer a patient to MedStar VNA, call 800-862-2166.
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