Receiving a situation requiring home medical care
"There are two ways in which the patient is admitted and included in the home medical care program," said Dr. Ruwaida Mohammed Ali Masood, supervisor and coordinator of the home health care program at King Abdulaziz University Hospital. Receive a fax received from the National Charity for Home Health Care (NARAC) that this
The patient needs nursing care as mentioned in the report, and in turn we visit the patient and determine the need for nursing services.
Equipment, milk, bedding and home medical devices are provided directly through the National Charity for Home Health Care (NRAC).
The patient is hypnotized in our hospital and needs active nursing care as he is on a ventilator or on a catheter or feed tube. Patient status reports are sent to us if his / her condition covers the criteria for admission and inclusion within the home care program. (Nera'ak) that the patient needs to provide the devices mentioned in the report and then communicate with the company providing the devices and locks them and delivered to the patient's home before leaving the hospital.
Medications and their disbursement
Hafsa Mohammed Yassin says that the dispensing of medicines starts from the first visit of the patient at home and then the names of the drugs are included in the system as required by the patient's condition and when there is new drugs are reported to us by the doctor who is with the home visiting nursing team, Routine medicines such as
Antibiotics are given to the patient every two weeks. If a patient asks for a dispensary at a time other than the time of his discharge or illness, the social worker is not required to discuss this.
Home visit
Hani al-Sayyed, a social worker in home health care at King Abdulaziz University Hospital, said: In the first visit to the patient, his visits are determined and starts with three visits each week. As his condition improves, the number of visits is reduced to two visits and one visit. Every month, if the patient is fully recovered, he / she will be discharged from the home care service.
medical equipments
"We have a warehouse for the storage of medical devices for patients such as: electrical beds, air mattresses, industrial respirators, oxygen generators, electric wheelchairs, electrical devices of all kinds, sugar and pressure devices and blood oxygen measurement. The National Charity for Home Health Care (NERAC), which we care for as they are cooperative and there are many sick patients of the institution, their health has stabilized and some of them have recovered completely. They buy them because they are expensive, such as a drug costing about 500 riyals, and they are kept in the home care program. They are visited every time as a periodic examination of the patient.
