Skilled Nursing

Skilled nursing care involves trained professionals administering care services due to injury or illness; these can include:

• Post-operative wound care and complex wound dressings
• Dispensing and monitoring intravenous medications
• Intramuscular injections
• Catheter, incontinence, and colostomy care
• Tube feedings
• Diabetic management
• Assistance with the Activities of Daily Living (ADLs)
• Blood transfusions
• Monitoring of vital signs and medical equipment
• Rapidly changing health status
• Physical therapy to help with strength and balance issues after hip replacement
• Speech therapy to help with communication following a stroke
• Occupational therapy to help a patient become independent again by restoring the ability to dress, groom, or feed themselves.
• Pharmaceutical, laboratory, and radiology services