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Best Home Hospice In Rawalpindi And Islamabad
Home Hospice care for bedridden patients is immensely crucial and Shafi is all set to attend to this need by making available the best nursing staff for you or your loved ones. Here are the Best Home Hospice In Rawalpindi And Islamabad.
What do we mean by home hospice for Bedridden Population?
Bedridden / terminally ill patients are the chunk of the population consisting of individuals who are unable to carry out even the most basic of their life functions and activities, therefore being completely or partially dependent on others for such accomplishment of these cardinal life activities.
Such a population is highly in need of home hospice care.
Our experienced and skilled home hospice staff is trained to provide all the possible assistance that a bedridden patient may require.
What are the responsibilities of Home hospice staff towards such patients?
1. Feeding the Patient in home hospice
Home hospice care professionals feed the bedridden patient in the most comfortable yet hygienic way to enable the bedridden patient to have a balanced and sufficient diet. They carry out this task in accordance with the body needs and health conditions of the patient.
Our nurses provide specific diets for particular individuals for example a non-sugary diet for diabetic patients and a cholesterol-free diet with low amounts of LDL for patients with heart conditions.
2. Preventing Bedsores is an integral part of home hospice
Our home hospice professionals are well trained to prevent patients from developing bedsores due to prolonged inability to get out of bed and being in contact with bed surfaces for an extended amount of time.
They turn their sides frequently and reposition them so that the span of contact of a particular part of skin with the surface of the bed reduces hence decreasing chances of developing bedsores.
They also render good care of patients’ skin and carry out regular check-ups to observe whether skin integrity is intact or not.
They also provide an extra amount of cushioning to ease the skin on the vulnerable areas of the body where bedsores are more likely to develop like heels, hips, and ankles, etc., to avoid the occurrence of pressure ulcers.
3. Maintaining Good Hygienic condition
Frequent bathing and showering of the bedridden patients to maintain good hygiene are one of the several tasks carried out by our home hospice staff to keep the standards of hygiene and cleanliness above par.
For those who aren’t able to perform their normal teeth brushing activity, our trained home hospice staff also help them in this regard to help keep their teeth healthy and mouth clean.
Cutting nails at proper intervals to avoid enlargement and subsequent accumulation of dirt in the nails is a task performed by our nursing staff.
They also groom the patients who can’t shave etc. maintaining proper cleanliness in the room and atmosphere around patients including regular changing of bedsheets etc., helps patients feel better, comfortable, and resultantly healthier.
4. Providing a Soothing Environment in home hospice
Our home hospice nurses make the environment of the patient’s room as comfortable as possible. They make certain minute changes in the living environment of patients with their willingness that help a lot in making the aura soothing and nerve-easing.
For instance, they eliminate unnecessary distractions to help a patient relax and fall asleep whenever he/she wants to.
They also adapt the room to the needs of patients like installing carpets on the otherwise slippery floors to avoid falls and making the path to the bathroom easy to access and so on and so forth.
5. Patient Education and Empathy by home hospice staff
Patient education is one of the most important things to make the patient aware of his Do’s and Dont’s that would help him/her to recover. Making patients educated about procedures, basic guidelines to move, to go to the bathroom, to lift up things, to hold something, etc., helps patients a lot in recovering.
Patient education regarding the treatment plan, the diagnosis, the plan of care, the time span in which he/she is expected to recover, about the diseases, information regarding the expectations of patients, and the outcomes of the treatment are all part of the patient education that our home hospice nurses carry out.
6. Keep the patient active during home hospice
Our properly trained home hospice staff is well-aware of the fact that keeping the body of a patient moving is highly necessary to keep him/her healthy.
Therefore, regular exercises, regular moving, keeping the joints of the patients mobile, and performing range of motion exercises are carried out by our nursing staff which helps the patient avoid developing contractures.
7. Observing Newly Appearing Symptoms
Home hospice care providers are highly keen to observe any of the unusual symptoms that may appear during the course of treatment which may relate to the development of any condition.
They regularly keep in check the skin integrity, the vital signs of the patient, UTI symptoms, or any other symptoms of infections/diseases, etc. this enables them to detect the onset of a particular disease and report to the medical staff/doctor dealing with the patient.
This helps patients get treated in time and recover from a disease at an early stage where the disease hasn’t yet deteriorated.
Finally, Home hospice care for bed-ridden patients is compulsorily required to help them perform their basic life activities like bathing, eating, cleaning, avoiding bedsores, etc., and Shafi’s team of home hospice staff is highly professional and skilled to provide you with all the aforementioned services.
Learn more about bedridden patients’ home hospice care from other sources:
General Information on bedridden patients
Caring for bedridden patients: How to prevent complications?
