Bath time is not just about getting clean but a chance to play or unwind before bed. We know that babies and young children can drown in as little as 2 inches of water and in a matter of seconds. This is why it is important we attend regular training to ensure we are all following the basic bath safety guidelines as well as following the simple steps to make sure all children in our care are safe and happy at bath time.
Congratulations to all our nurses on successfully completing their childcare training course with Psychologist Dr. Sarah Rasmi. At Nightingale we believe communication, play and stimulation in children is not only for healthy brain development but it allows them to use their creativity, build relationships and help make sense of the world around them.
Seniors living at your homes once again starts behaving like kids after they reach their golden years. Particularly, in terms of paying attention to their health & medical condition and taking care of themselves. In a fast-paced city like Dubai, surrounded with our busy schedules all the time and lack of proper knowledge about elderly care, we often end up neglecting the health of the loving seniors at our homes and can’t provide them with the quality of life that they deserve coming to their golden years. In fact, not picking up the symptoms in time, related to ill-health of the elderly population at your household can be a serious threat for them, as it may require them to be hospitalized and also could be a reason for a big strain on your financial resources because of long-term hospitalization expenses. Be it taking the right care of the elders at your home, keep you updated about their health & medical condition by picking the symptoms of their health in time for you take measures or dealing with situations and illnesses such as post-operative care & recovery, Alzheimer’s and Dementia etc, or general care there could be no better solution than elderly home care from the comfort of your home by professional nurses adept in elderly care.
What Does Specialized Elderly Care Involves?
Elderly care services aim to maintain and improve the quality of life of the elderly population with practical support for everyday activities and helping them with personal care such as dressing, eating meals, medications etc. However, it’s not restricted to general home health care of the elderly alone. It’s about timely understanding & monitoring of their health condition from their health symptoms and keep you informed about it. Dedicated & trained elderly care experts assist seniors suffering from various specific age-related health conditions & health issues. Overall, elderly care aims to relieve you of your worries regarding the health of the elderly at the home that gives you a feeling that they are in safe hands.
Elderly Care is not limited to Personal Care only but includes:
Monitor vital signs: Check temperature, readings in case of Diabetes and Hypertension, pulse etc.
Wound care, skin care and infection control in a home environment
Daily activities – Bathing, Feeding, Dressing
Maintaining a medical records log
Maintaining nutrition and diet
Assisting with toileting issues
Walking and exercise assistance
Engaging in mental physical activities
Elderly Care for patients with specific health conditions
Alzheimer’s and Dementia Care
Alzheimer’s could be an unnerving experience for your elder. All it needs you is to stay calm. An elderly care expert can help you in the following manner:
Helps not just patient but family members to remain calm and ensure patient remains safe at home.
Tries to socially engage the patient in facilitating constant social interaction
Plans and executes activities that constantly stimulates the mind of the patient
Helps minimize the patient’s changing behaviour
Respite Care
Caring for your loved elder is undoubtedly a matter of joy but at the same time, it can be an emotionally draining and exhaustive. Respite care aims at giving the family caregiver a break to reduce the physical, emotional, financial consequences that can be overwhelming for the caregiver and the family.
This will typically include;
Provide appropriate care, ensure the safety of the patient in case of absence of the caregiver or any family member.
Relieving family members from the constant responsibility of providing care to the patient
Attending to all self-help needs of the patient in absence of the caregiver
Postoperative care and Recovery
Longer stays in hospitals could have an impact on the emotional self of the elderly, make him lose his ability to do an everyday task, lose mobility and could incur a huge financial burden on the family. Elderly care from the comfort of home can be an effective solution during the recovery period.
Advantages of Postoperative care
Provide a solution for the patient to rest at home while getting treatment just as in the hospital.
Elderly care experts will do a thorough assessment of the condition of the patient & accordingly, plan their care.
It takes care right from initial assessment, planning the care and recovery.
All services are tailored to the individual needs of the patient by expert nurses.
Elders are most precious. The love they share for us is blissful and takes every new generation ahead to achieve their life’s goals. It’s time to love them back in their golden years by spending more quality time with them and to do so nothing can beat Nightingale Dubai’s elderly care services for the complete care of your elder at home at every stage, all condition in the best year’s of their lives.
Welcome to parenthood. Nothing compares with this cherished stage of life when you’re being able to hold your baby in your arms; it’s the best feeling in the world. It’s not just your child which as a mother you have brought a new life to the world but with every childbirth, a new mother is born too. The paternal responsibilities are not left alone. Becoming a father is a transformational experience for a man as well. In this most emotional moment in the life of parents, you need a special someone to guide you rightly about parenthood, teach you about newborn care, baby care and babysitting. In times of an emergency, that special caregiver should ensure that you do not panic and is equipped with life-saving and first aid training to revive your baby in its most delicate phase. When your baby grows a few months older begins another phase – time to train him, like a brick over a brick to build a wall. Your baby needs to be trained in behavioural development, sleep, food and potty training and create a positive environment for your baby’s overall personality development. Even parents who are not first-timers would agree with the positive role played by a trustworthy and qualified babysitter in making your journey of parenthood an exciting experience, especially in a metropolis like Dubai where both parents are often a working couple and cannot spare time to engage with their infant round the clock. Let’s try and understand who’s a babysitter and how can she make your parenthood a rewarding experience from newborn care to parenthood and beyond.
Who’s a babysitter?
A professional babysitter is someone who’s fast replacing nannies or mother’s helper when it comes to taking supervision of your child and work as caregivers. Today she is a professional nurse with degrees and certification at babysitting, trained with pediatric first aid, CPR and multilingual training to ensure that your child is in safe hands, his/ her safety is never compromised and adept at handling any kind of an emergency situation and as a mother you don’t have to constantly phone back home to inquire about your child while out for work or even spending time out with your husband. Let’s take a look at the various definitive advantages of a professional babysitter over a nanny type personality or even parents who are amateur at the task and often needs to be enlightened about parenting with tips and techniques.
Advantages of a professional babysitter
Post Natal Newborn Care
Newborn care is the most daunting task in parenting. For a mother when in one hand there is the post-natal stress of maternity to deal with on the other, your infant needs the most delicate of care. Overanxious parents often lacking proper knowledge of maternity techniques end up disturbing their routine of sleep and hence fails to foster a positive environment required for newborn care. A professional babysitter can help in the following ways.
Provide care and supervision to a newborn baby
Provide postnatal care and support for mothers
Establish a routine for a family including good sleeping habits
Educate parents about health, safety, and hygiene of new born
Provide support with breastfeeding
Help with baby feeding techniques, teach how to sterilize baby feeding equipment
Maintain a hygienic environment
Babysitting & Child Personality Development
For parents, a baby at home is their most precious belonging. Modern day life in Dubai also doesn’t provide for either of the parents to be constantly with the baby and dedicated to its care. This is where the role of a babysitter again comes in, essentially when a baby is a few months old or even a toddler. In such a scenario a professional babysitter not just supervises or takes care of your baby but helps in his/ her overall brain and personality development, train the child with positive parenting techniques from the comfort of your home or even at malls or hotels. Let’s see the role of a babysitter at this important phase of your child’s development.
Bespoke Babysitting – Tailored to Your Needs
Provide sleeping and potty training and deal with fussy eating habit
Behavioral management that includes how to reward good behavior traits in a child
Allergies and medical condition management support
Look after special needs such as autism, Down’s syndrome and other disabilities
Provides babysitting from the comfort of home
Babysitting at Malls and Hotels with the same degree of care
Babysitting for the Child’s Personal, Social and Behavioral Development
Engage with a child and foster childcare through confidence-boosting activities like fun games that set learning goals for a child and helps in his / her emotional and social skill development
Encourage a child to express himself and focus on language and communication development
Develop motor skills of a child required to play with larger toys and leads to the physical development
Foster love for reading, stories, and overall literacy development
Help the child to sing, dance, learn art and craft and act by playing imaginative roles
Help a child recognize numbers and develop numeracy skills
In the leading metropolis like Dubai, professional, trustworthy and certified babysitters are fast becoming the new nannies for children. They make parenting a positive, smooth and exciting experience for the new age couple be it their first time or subsequent brush with parenting. If you want to experience a similar parenting and reward a superlative infant care for your child ensure your babysitter passes all tests as mentioned in the categories above and best suited for the task. Nightingale Dubai for who establishing excellence in baby care and babysitting in Dubai is their mission, they could be your pick for the best of baby care services for your child.