Elderly patients, due to several factors, refrain from going to clinics or hospitals frequently. With age, they cannot wait for long hours standing in queues owing to their physical condition. Hence they require special attention, which can be dealt with only by having a home nurse or house doctor for themselves. It is a modern concept that customizes and enriches the experience of patients. It entails several different services rendered by nursing homes or hospitals. In this system, the home nurse is appointed or deputed for a patient wherein she takes care of patients in accordance with the already laid down medication and nursing procedure. Apparently, it has been observed that the role of a home nurse or a house doctor is very significant in today’s time and hence is explained in the following ways.
- Need for a dedicated medical staff – With a great deal of development pretty much supported by and evident from the innovative services offered by speciality hospitals and nursing homes, old age people need a focused and dedicated staff for better care and treatment. It is increasingly becoming a desirable option only because they can offer consistent support and medication right through the time period when the patient is undergoing treatment. Also, there is always an inherent and obvious requirement for keeping patient under constant observation that can be effectively done only by having a personal medical attendant in the form of a home nurse.
- More money with patients to hire a personal medical staff – In the new era of development, people generally earmark a separate fund for medication and medical treatment. People belonging to old patients fraternity either have large medical cover supporting them, or their children have alternative medical insurance, which translates into the availability of large cash or in-kind claims, which eventually brings the notion of having a personal medical attendant a reality.
- Proper, effective and timely medication – By having a personal home nurse, medicines can be effectively administered, medical inputs or periodical diagnosis can be promptly shared with which would facilitate better and speedy recovery.
- Home nurse supplements the efforts of a doctor or medical practitioner – A dedicated home nurse is expected to supplement the efforts of a doctor. A dedicated nurse can work according to the specifications of doctors in comparison to a normal nursing staff hired on one’s own. Also, by having a home nurse, there is no extra burden on the family members to look after the patient time and again as she is already well versed in her medical role of being a medical attendant, and this reduces the risk of any mistake that may weigh down on the patient’s health. Also, the medical process is what she is perfectly aware of.
- Emergence of home nurses is much needed in today’s modern nuclear family concept – The role of a home nurse has emerged in today’s time as family members are predominantly working professionals and they lack prior experience of attending to the elder patient. Also, quite often, they are reluctant to take care of elder patient as they get into fear or anxiety to deal with such a situation.
Thus we see that having a separate home nurse doctor has multiple benefits in the form of ease, comfort, convenience, proper and timely care which ultimately has made the role of such medical professionals very significant.
