Home Health Care

A Registered Nurse (RN) is a licensed medical professional responsible for providing hands-on care in a myriad of medical and community settings. Through the implementation of the nursing process, RN nurses work as patient advocates in conjunction with other healthcare professionals. Their primary task is to oversee the care and recovery of patients. Working in the role of patient advocates they assess, plan, implement, and evaluate nursing care of the sick and injured. 

LPN is a person who studies under the same body of nursing knowledge and acquires a license (from the state) to provide timely care for the sick as directed by a physician and/or RN. 

Certified Nursing Assistant, also called as patient care assistant, works under the supervision of a RN or LPN to assist individuals with daily healthcare needs and bedside care. They work on the frontline of patient care and mainly undertake basic nursing procedures. 

Home Health Aide is health care or supportive care provided to an individual in their home under the supervision of healthcare professionals. They are trained and certified to provide assistance to a patient with personal care (as hygiene and exercise) and light household duties (as meal preparation) at home while monitoring their condition. 

Physical Therapy: A treatment that relies on specially designed exercises and equipment to help restore or improve a patient’s physical abilities. Physical therapists work with a wide array of patients, including infants born with musculoskeletal birth defects, adults suffering from sciatica or recovering from an injury, and elderly post-stroke patients. 

Occupational Therapists (OTs) are healthcare professionals who specialize in assisting clients with health issues and improve their ability to perform everyday tasks. They help individuals with mentally, physically, developmentally, social, or emotionally disabling conditions recover and maintain daily life and work skills. Besides improving basic motor functions and reasoning abilities of a service user, Occupational therapists are also trained to compensate for permanent loss of function. They primarily focus on helping clients achieve an independent, productive, and a satisfying life. 

Speech Therapy focuses on helping clients have a better grasp of receptive language and find a way to work around speech impediments. It is primarily aimed at improving the ability to understand works spoken to you as well as the ability to use words to communicate with others. Individuals may need speech therapy after undergoing a stroke or traumatic injury that affects their ability to communicate via words. Regarding mechanics, it deals with exercises that strengthen the tongue and lips. For language, it helps in reconfiguring the ability to control pitch, articulation, fluency, and volume through conversation and games. 

Licensed clinical social workers specialize in providing emotional support, mental health evaluations, therapy, and case management services to clients experiencing mental health issues. They typically have a master’s degree in social work and have studied sociology, growth and development, mental health theory and practice, human behavior/social environment, psychology, or research methods. 

Case management is an assembly of several processes that revolve around assessment, planning, facilitation, and advocacy for options and services of a client's health needs. It assists healthcare professionals in achieving cost effective and quality outcomes through communication and available resources.