Clients and/or their family caregivers can also receive specialized education and counseling about illness and disease and/or prescribed treatments. VON Ottawa staff identifies client needs and organizes formal and informal resources to assist those in need to remain independent in the community.
Home Health Nursing brings the expertise of Registered Practical Nurses to the home. Available for a minimum of three hours, the shift nursing is an alternative to institutional care. The care work is paid for on an hourly basis, on contract with the individual or family caregiver.
Personal Support Care VON helps individuals and families with routine tasks such as laundry, grocery shopping, or making meals. Home support workers also provide companionship and/or personal care. A Nurse assesses and supervises the care provided by Registered Personal Support Workers (PSW). Minimum three hour service requirement. Other duties may be negotiated as required. Care assessed and supervised by a Registered Nurse and provided by Registered Personal Support Workers (PSW).
Foot Care Victorian Order of Nurses has been providing basic and advanced foot care to clients across Canada for decades. Regulated professionals ( RPN’s/ RN’s) who deliver the service possess special certification in basic and advanced foot care education.
Foot care services include: • Medication, general health, gait and footwear review • Comprehensive assessment of feet and lower limbs, monofilament testing • Early detection and intervention of foot care problems • Referrals to podiatrists, chiropodists or others as applicable • Cutting, trimming and filing of finger and toe nails • Treatment of in grown , fungal, brittle nails, corns and calluses • Continuity of foot care provider
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