Visiting Nurse Association
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The experienced nurses at the VNA are highly skilled, passionate, patient advocates. The nursing staff is proud to carry on the tradition of superior compassionate care that has been delivered to hundreds of thousands of patients throughout the
What Our Nurses Can Do:
Monitor a person's vital signs, blood pressure, heart rate, medication, and any special diet.
Control the impact of acute and chronic illnesses such as diabetes and heart disease as well as help reduce the complications caused by wounds and ostomies.
Teach self-care techniques for asthma, diabetes, stroke, heart and respiratory conditions, wounds, ostomies and catheters.
Arrange for additional services if needed and communicate with others in the home health care team.
Rehabilitation (Physical, Occupational, Speech)
Our staff of experienced physical, occupational, and speech therapists will work closely with the patient, family, and physician to develop a rehabilitation care plan that meets each patient's unique needs. Whether the patient requires post-operative therapy from a joint replacement or a falls assessment for a frail or elderly patient, people of all ages and diagnoses benefit from receiving rehabilitation at home.
Common Diagnoses that require home rehabilitation are:
Amputation Developmental Delays
Arthritis Failure to Thrive
Brain Injury History of Falls
Cancer Joint Replacement
Cardiac Surgeries Multiple Sclerosis
Congestive Heart Failure Spinal Cord Injuries
COPD Stroke
Maternal/ Infant/ Child Nursing
The VNA Maternal/ Infant/ Child Nurse is a highly skilled obstetrical and pediatric nurse who provides home care services to women with high-risk pregnancies, premature infants, and early maternity discharge.
The MIC Nurse intervenes at critical junctures in a family's life and has the opportunity to be in a setting no other member of the home care team are likely to enter; the patient's home.
Examples of VNA MIC Referrals:
High-risk prenatal and postpartum care
High-risk infants, including prematurity
Infants with cardiac anomalies
Infants with feeding problems
Brestfeeding difficulties
Early maternity discharge visits
C-Section wound care
High-risk teen moms and infants
Infants with respiratory problems
Home Health Aide
Our staff of capable home health aides helps elders, convalescent or disabled persons live in their own homes intead of in a healthcare facility. Under the direction of our nursing staff, home health aides provide health-related services, such as administering oral medications, help with simple prescribed exercises, keeping patient's rooms neat, and help patients to move from bed, bathe, dress and groom.
Most home health aides work with persons who need more extensive care than family or friends can provide. Some help discharged hospital patients who have relatively short-term needs.
Other Home Care Services
Medical Social Work
Homemaking
Private Pay Care
Community Health Services
Immunization/ Flu Shot Clinics
Health Promotion/ Wellness Clinics
Iowa City Senior Center Health Suite
Therapeutic Massage
Fall Prevention Assessment
Patient Safety Equipment
Philips Lifeline Medical Alert Service
Philips Medication Administration System