Medication Management
Focus Healthcare nurses make over 30,000 visits each year – to support people in managing their medications at home. Medications are taken to maintain health, to relieve symptoms, to reverse disease processes, to change normal processes, to aid in diagnosis and to prevent an illness. They are chemicals capable of upsetting the body’s delicate physiological balance and individuals may react differently to the same medication.
Focus Healthcare can help with:
- Short term medication management for education of client in dosette and blister pack use
- Medication management for clients with memory / cognitive problems
- Twice daily assistance with / prompts to take medications
- IV (peripheral and PICC / portacath) and subcutaneous injections and infusions
- Anti-coagulant therapy e.g. clexane
- Insulin injections
- Intrathecal injections
- Epidural injections and infusions
- CVC line management
- Total Parenteral Nutrition (TPN)
- Baxter and Grasby pump management
- Naso-gastric tube management
- Ventolin (nebuliser)
- Topical medications
- Oxygen therapy
- Eye, nose and ear drops
- Suppositories, enemas and pessaries
Medication management is planned as part of a careful assessment. Care is taken to involve the client, explaining medication management options - taking account of clients’ daily routines and capacity to self-manage all or part of their medication management routines.
How to receive medication management from Focus Healthcare
Any person needing medication management can receive it from Focus Healthcare. All that is required is a telephone call to 1300 363 262 (24 hours / day). Our contact centre personnel will process the referral promptly and can advise you of charges and options for payment and rebates (e.g. from health funds or the Department of Veterans Affairs (War Veterans).
Once a referral is received a ‘key’ nurse will be assigned to your care. This nurse is responsible for coordination of the services you received from Focus and for communication with other people who may be involved in your care e.g. your GP, visiting carers and your family.
Charges
Private health insurance, Workcover or motor vehicle 3rd party compensation, Department of Veterans Affairs or hospital discharge/avoidance schemes will cover all or part of the cost of wound care provided by Focus Healthcare Nurses.
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