Preventive services and patient and family education are becoming more important roles for the home care nurse, and these interventions lend themselves well to telemedicine. Regardless of where you practice nursing, you are a part of your patient's home healthcare team. The nurse in a physician office is often the liaison between the physician and the home care nurse as the patient recovers at home. In addition, you may have a parent or grandparent needing nursing services. As a consumer, it is important for you to understand how home care can work for you and your loved one.
Most patients prefer to be at home whenever possible.
Being near one's friends, family, pets, and cherished personal mementos can have a strong positive psychological influence on recovery. Advances in technology, especially miniaturization and computerization of equipment, allow delivery of more services at home than ever before. It is likely this trend will continue and in the future patients will receive ever more complex therapies at home. References California Association for Health Services at Home . Home health care to continue to grow.