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Before Hospital Discharge—Evaluating Your Homecare Needs
If you are confined to bed, your hospital team (nurse or discharge planner) will assess your ability to move about and position yourself for maximum comfort and to prevent skin breakdown. They will decide whether you need a trapeze to help raise yourself in bed and will examine your ability to transfer in and out of bed, either to a wheelchair or to an ordinary chair. Walking If you are able to be up, your hospital team will evaluate your...Read the rest of this article »Related Articles
Advocate 101 for Family Caregivers: When your Loved One is Hospitalized
As a family caregiver, short-term hospitalization of a loved one can be a difficult situation whether he or she is living in a long-term care facility or at home. As the family caregiver, the change can prove challenging at points, especially as hospitalization normally points to an unstable medical condition or an acute condition. Here are a few pointers for how to negotiate the situation. The most important issue to keep in mind is that you have most of the...Read the rest of this article »Related Articles
5 Ways to Prevent Hospital Infections
According to Hospitals and Health Networks, 2 million people acquire a hospital infection annually, an estimated 30 percent of which are preventable. These statistics hit close to home for me. Several years back, my grandfather entered a hospital for leg bypass surgery, only to find himself with a Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus) infection, commonly referred to as a Staph infection. Ultimately, the infection led to amputation after the procedure. The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that...Read the rest of this article »Related Articles
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