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Elderly Care

Elderly care is a crucial aspect of home healthcare in modern times

elderly home health care in dubai
elderly home health care in dubai

 

elderly home health care in dubai
Elderly home health care in Dubai

They are the trees who have nurtured us throughout our lives. They are the trees who have shaded us through the sun and rains of our lives. They are the smiling faces who have sacrificed many a sleepless night and thrown away all caution to the wind only to buy that one precious thing that we set our heart on.

Yes, they are our parents and elders of our families who have forever extended their unflinching hand of friendship towards us. Our caregivers who have lavished all their love and care upon us both in times of sickness and happiness.

This brings us to the question of caring and providing for them when they are in the twilight of their lives and need as much care and attention as we needed as children. These sensitive years are like a second childhood for our elders and they require constant guidance and support.

However, as much as we wish to provide them with the same care and attention, it is unfortunately not a reality for most professionals today. The existence of small, nuclear families staying away from elders and their immediate families, means a lot of family elders and a huge section of the generation of parents stay away from their sons and daughters and other younger members of the family. Often, the younger generations stays in a different city, and sometimes in a different country altogether making it difficult to provide quality home care for elders. Another important factor is that of the presence of newborns or children at home making it difficult for parents to care equally and constantly for both their children and parents.

And it’s not only medical care, routine tests, or daily administration of medicines and monitoring of diet that is required on a regular basis, but it is also about pain management owing to joint and muscle swelling due to arthritis, prostrate care, diabetes care, Alzheimer care, insomnia, and most importantly, depression and loneliness.

Since elders are used to the comforts and privacy of their homes and are attached to their homes in a sentimental manner, it is best to give them holistic care within the familiarity of their homes.

Professionally trained and mild-mannered nurses can provide quality healthcare services at home for elders while maintaining the sense of privacy and dignity that senior citizens look forward to. Here’s a list of services that elderly care at home should cover:

Assistance with bathing and dressing — Often, old age induces a series of problems that they think embarrassing as well as problems with mobility hindering the daily functioning of routine lives. Here comes the support of well-trained home nurses in assisting elders with daily activities of bathing, washroom management, dressing and making the bed.

Assistance with meals — Consumption of daily meals poses problems for a lot of senile people due to a variety of factors including mobility problem, pain-related issue, or balance-related issue. The best home care service includes daily monitoring with meals and assistance with feeding, drinking water, and taking medicines.

Monitoring of medicine intake — Home nurses are equipped to maintain the daily medicine chart and round-the-clock maintenance of medicine intake so that the elderly patient doesn’t miss a single dose of medicine. This adds to their well-being.

Monitoring of diet chart — Diet is a very vital component of any elderly person’s life. There are dietary restrictions and there are some complete no-no items for a lot of elderly people owing to the nature of their physical condition and particular disease. Hence, diet management is crucial for the well-being of senior people. Also, there has to be a balance of nutrition as well as satisfaction to their taste buds as seniors, just like children, will not have distasteful food. A professional home nurse has to ensure that the food administered to senior is not only healthy and hygienic but also palatable.

Assistance with mobility: Another problem faced by elderly people is that of mobility. This could be due to senility or any operation or acute physical condition. In all such cases, professional home nurses are able to provide complete and caring assistance with mobility.

Post-operative care: A major area of concern for elderly care is that of providing them with care and attention to recover during a very delicate phase after undergoing an operation, which is quite common at this age. Ranging from prostrate operation to knee replacement surgery and cataract surgery, trained home care nurses are able to provide them with the much-needed medical monitoring as well as mobility assistance, helping them to lead a normal, stress-free post-operative period.

Specialized care for rare health conditions: Health conditions such as Parkinson’s, Alzeihmer’s, paralysis, heart condition, or patients who are bedridden require long-term medication and constant monitoring of vital parameters. Trained medical nurses are able to provide 24/7 care and assistance to such patients with meals, medicines, mobility, and encouraging them to maintain a positive outlook.

A well-trained elderly home care nurse should be able to provide round-the-clock assistance in the following fundamental areas:

  • Monitoring of vital parameters such as body temperature, blood pressure, and pulse rate.
  • Controlling the spread of infection by maintaining high standards of hygiene in the home environment as elderly people are susceptible to get infections like UTI (Urinary Tract Infection) very easily.
  • Assistance in prevention of and/or tending to bed sores while bedridden.
  • Assistance with wound care and skin care as elderly persons often suffer fragile skin conditions that can worsen under lack of care.
  • Assistance with daily toilet activities and incontinence issues.
  • Helping elderly people undertake light exercises and walking on daily basis.
  • Providing support for external medical appointment and maintaining a daily medical log to be shared with others in the family and the family doctors.
  • Assistance of diabetic patients with their meals and diabetic foot.
  • Assistance with weight and nutritional management of elderly patients.

At Nightingale Dubai, we provide top-grade home care services for elderly healthcare management. We are affiliated with fully vetted and qualified home nurses who can not only provide 24/7 medical and daily assistance for elderly patients but also help them lead a life of positivity and independence by giving offering them mental counselling and anti-depression care, especially to battle depression and loneliness.

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Maternity Care

Home maternity care can give you immense care and relief if you are an expat and expecting mother in Dubai

Home maternity care
Home maternity care

 

Home maternity care
Home maternity care

Motherhood is a special journey, one that most women plan in advance and one that imbues their life with a new set of emotions and expectations. Cutting across geographical boundaries and linguistic divisions, motherhood is an emotion that has a universal appeal. And yet every mother is different and special in a different way. Every mother has their own unique set of needs and demands and that’s why professional maternity home care is most valuable in today’s world.

Apart from the constant love, support, and care of loved ones and the father of the child, most mothers require a sustained and daily dose of maternity care at home. This is especially true if the mother is an expat and living away from her immediate family in Dubai or UAE. Holistic maternal care at home in addition to booking a qualified obstetrician and gynaecologist is paramount.

Hence, a qualified midwife comes into the picture when it comes to pregnancy care at home.

An expecting mother goes through a series of physical and psychological changes including changes in appearance and body weight as well as a sudden increase in mood swings, sudden cravings, and sudden bouts of depression. All the hardships, the sleepless nights, the bouts of anxiety, the change in eating habits as well as the jittery nervousness that pregnant women have to often overcome and can be overwhelming under the lack of proper guidance. To be able to have someone qualified in the vicinity who is engaged in giving her proper care, attention, and counselling is a boon for pregnant women staying away from family or dealing with frequently travelling family members.

Similarly, after delivery most mothers require well-balanced, holistic newborn and postnatal care at home as the process of real motherhood only begins after being discharged from the hospital.

Here’s a list of maternity care and newborn care services that a good, certified midwife in Dubai must be able to provide:

  • Regular supervision of the nutrition and diet of the expecting mother and monitoring of bodily changes, day-to-day routine, and sleep cycle.
  • Assisting with moving around, day-to-day activities, physical exercise in consultation with the appointed doctor, and assisting with meals and daily hygiene and cleanliness at home.
  • Guiding through the process of prenatal pain, depression, nausea, sleeplessness, and assisting with the periodic schedule of medical check-ups and routine tests.
  • Maintaining healthy and positive communication with the expecting mother and giving valuable guidance.
  • Guiding the family through the process of preserving the umbilical cord once the baby is born.
  • Taking care of the baby’s hygiene and sterilization of feeding bottles.
  • Taking care of post-circumcision as part of home maternity care service.
  • Assisting with breastfeeding and monitoring the breastfeeding cycle is a vital part of home nursing care for mothers. Breastfeeding introduces a new set of emotions for the mother and facilitates a special bond between the mother and the child. A well-qualified maternity nurse should be able to make this process easy and smooth for the mother and impart accurate knowledge regarding the same.
  • Assisting with breast care of the breastfeeding mother.
  • Assisting the mother with measuring and formula feeding the baby the right amount and proportion.
  • Maintaining a proper diet chart of the baby once the baby starts consuming cooked food.
  • Maintaining a proper diet chart of the mother as the mother must get all the proper nutrients for a speedy recovery. A healthy mother will ensure a healthy child.
  • Assisting the mother in understanding and establishing the sleep cycle of the newborn such that she can develop her own sleep cycle around that and both get proper rest.
  • Assisting with maintaining proper postnatal cleanliness and dressing of the wound.
  • Recording the growth of the baby and monitoring the same.
  • Changing soiled nappies and keeping nappies clean.
  • Washing the baby’s clothes and giving the baby a bath is also part of a midwife’s role.
  • Assisting with 24/7 newborn care so that the new mother can get optimal rest to recover fully and resume daily chores. In fact, this 24/7 newborn care is the most important duty of a maternity nurse.
  • Encouraging and motivating the mother post childbirth in order to deal with postnatal depression, body weight perception issues, and resuming a normal relationship with the spouse is also part of a well-trained midwife.

And at Nightingale Dubai, we provide professionally certified maternity nurses and midwives who are equipped to deal with the concerns and challenges of modern-day pregnancy and postnatal care. They are not only medically trained to deal with day-to-day monitoring of baby growth and sleep cycle but are also psychologically equipped to guide a new mother through the process of recovering post childbirth.

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Baby Care Babysitting Child care

A professional nanny can make all the difference to quality baby sitting and holistic newborn care

professional nanny
professional nanny
professional nanny
professional nanny

A professional midwife, nurse and childcare assistant can make all the difference to quality childcare, babysitting and holistic new born care.

Your little bundle of joy demands all your love and attention. And it’s most likely that as parents you are going to lavish all the attention that you can on your little one, be it in terms of creature comforts, daily care giving, medical monitoring, emotional nurturing, or hand holding your child through the first few formative years of educational foundation.

But you can’t be around all the time given the professional demands of your careers, as you have to get back to the rigmarole of your daily grind sooner than later. Modern-day lifestyles are governed by hectic work schedules leaving one with not sufficient time to bring up a child.

Hence, a professionally trained baby sitter comes into the picture of newborn baby care. But finding a good and reliable nanny is no child’s play.

One needs to check a few vital parameters before choosing a baby sitter for baby care at home. At Nightingale Dubai, we make sure that our professionally trained nannies are well-versed with the demands of modern-day holistic newborn care at home and are caring-yet-knowledgeable at the same time.

Following are the necessary qualifications and quality traits that a professional nanny must be equipped with:

  1. Friendly, positive, and caring attitude: Finding a loving and reliable nanny is the biggest challenge that a family might face. For a nanny to be chosen by a family, she must be someone who has a good temperament to tackle the moods of a newborn, must be friendly and non-judgemental towards the child, must be positive so that the child imbibes a cheerful personality. All these are important factors for any parent to consider, as in the absence of a family member, the nanny is going to be the most important psychologically influential person in the child’s life.
  2. Basic child teaching tools: This involves age-appropriate language-learning and educational activities with the help of learners’ books and games. This function is important as this is the time a child is very keen and curious to learn and is most eager to pick up linguistic constructions and numerical calculations during the growing-up phase. A well-trained nanny must be able to engage the child’s potential and mind through a series of story telling techniques, learning games, and playful activities. A well-engaged child is likely to be more active and social as opposed to being dull, lethargic, or unsocial.
  3. Preliminary medical care: This includes day-to-day caring for the child and administering medical care whenever the need be in terms of medicines of first-aid. This also involves maintaining a regular medical calendar or check-ups, vaccinations, and other tests. This also involves a close monitoring of any physical or psychological problem or impairment, be it in speech or the ability to learn and adapt that the child might be facing, and reporting that to the concerned parents.

Here is a list of daily duties that nannies working in Dubai need to fulfill:

Nursery duties: Assisting with children’s daily nursery duties including preparing children’s meals, feeding and cleaning, washing and ironing clothes, making beds, and maintaining cleanliness and hygiene standards.

Fulfilling the emotional void: A major problem that a parent faces is that their child misses them when they are not present at home. It is within the professional premises of a qualified baby sitter’s role to fill that gap in the most loving, caring, and engaging manner possible. Be it by developing a bond with the child and addressing to the child’s needs promptly or by devising an all-around routine to keep the child well-cared for as well as engaged, the nanny must create a conducive child care environment at home by emotionally reaching out to the child as is proper for a professional care giver.

Keeping the home environment stimulating: It is the role and duty of a professional nanny to keep the home environment stimulating enough for the child. Cooking delicious meals, hosting interactive story telling and play acting sessions, and engaging the child in games and activities like building blocks keep the home environment creatively charged.

Monitoring the child’s daily nutrition needs: Another cause of concern for parents is whether the child is getting their daily dose of nutrition or not. The nanny must adhere to a well-balanced diet in consultation with the parents, and if need be the child’s physician, to ensure that all the vital nutrients are maintained and there is enough variety of healthy and nourishing food for good growth. Another problem that parents face is that the child becomes irritable and prone to skip meals or eat less when parents are not around. A good nanny is someone who is able to keep the child duly engaged and is also strict if the need be to ensure that the daily dietary needs of the child are taken care of.

At Nightingale Dubai, we provide trusted, professionally trained, and fully vetted nannies in Dubai who are qualified to give quality baby-sitting services and newborn baby care at home. They are trained in the art of dealing with children of varying age groups and backgrounds and have a pleasing personality and well-groomed mannerisms.

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Training, Events and Workshops

Morning coffee with Dr Rafif Tayara – Monday 19 November 2018 at 10 AM – 12 PM – Venue: Miyabi La Mer

Morning coffee with Dr Rafif Tayara
Morning coffee with Dr Rafif Tayara
Morning coffee with Dr Rafif Tayara
Morning coffee with Dr Rafif Tayara

Dr Rafif Tayara will be discussing her most advanced information in the field of pediatric dentistry and answer all your questions regarding your child’s oral health. Nightingale Nurses will be on hand to assist with the little ones so bring them along on the day.

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Training, Events and Workshops

Dubai Silicon Oasis ENBD Unity run – Friday, 16 November 2018 at 6:00 AM – 3:00 PM

ENBD Unity run
ENBD Unity run

The Emirates NBD Unity Run supports two exceptional centres of excellence for children and young adults with disabilities, Al Noor Centre and Senses Centre. Both offer the best professional services in purpose-built facilities with outstanding examples of best practice. The Emirates NBD Unity Run also supports Emirates Red Crescent who are leaders in worldwide humanitarian work.

Nightingale will be contributing by running the creche area at the Unity run and offering complimentary childcare in support of these fantastic centres, our physiotherapist Johnathan and Midwife Malin will also be taking part in the run to help raise awareness.

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Training, Events and Workshops

Flywheel at the Gold and Diamond Park – Tuesday, 13 November 2018 at 10am – 12noon

Flywheel at the Gold and Diamond Park
Flywheel at the Gold and Diamond Park

My best pre and post-natal advice with Nightingales lead midwife Malin

Malin will give an informative talk on pre and post-natal topics and the truths and myths behind exercising during and after pregnancy. She will be carrying out baby checks and weighing also.

Our nurses will be there for an extra helping hand so bring your little ones along.

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Child care Post-natal

Postnatal care is most important for mothers and babies to lead a healthy life and avoid complications after a delivery

Postnatal care is most important for mothers
Postnatal care is most important for mothers
Postnatal care is most important for mothers
Postnatal care is most important for mothers

The sight and smell of a newborn is most heartwarming to any parent. The tiny features resembling that of the baby’s birth-givers bring genuine tears of joy to the parents. There are parents who get their baby room painted and stuffed with toys ahead of the precious little thing’s official first day as a newborn.

While the entire experience of childbirth is incredible and phenomenal for parents, all the excitement of welcoming the bundle of joy to this world must follow a sound medical procedure for complete and holistic postnatal care at home for both the mother and the baby.

In fact, for most mothers the dreaded part begins after being discharged from the hospital. Suddenly, there’s a platterful to deal with and that too not with much knowledge or preparedness.

The spell of sleepless nights can be taxing for new mothers or parents. Changing nappies, breastfeeding, dealing with sudden cries etc. Can be daunting for a new mother, especially when she herself needs care, rest, and medical supervision to recover.

Most new parents require education on immunizations, lactation care, and the terrifying prospect of giving the first baby bath and massage. Everything related to the baby in the first few months is crucial as that paves the way for healthy growth. Apart from regular check-ups and counseling at clinics, at-home postnatal care ensures speedy recovery of mothers and healthy growth of babies.

At-home postnatal services ensure that the new mother also gets ample rest and care without worrying about her baby, apart from gaining knowledge and awareness about raising a newborn.

Postnatal care is critical for Caesarian-section deliveries.

Home maternity care nurses who are trained to provide postnatal care provide the following specialized services.

  • They provide you a basic, yet comprehensive motherhood education bouquet that has a hands-down approach towards the day-to-day details such as settling the baby in the right place and environment, understanding and monitoring the sleep cycles of the baby, and becoming aware of her feeding cycles and patterns.
  • In short, the motherhood capsule course provided by a trained professional helps the new mother at becoming sensitive towards the baby’s needs without compromising her own health as she also gets attention from the nurse.
  • The intimate and conversational approach of the at-home nurses ensure that a mother gets an all-round view of all the practical aspects of holding and handling a baby and catering to her varied moods.
  • They provide a thorough clinical assessment of the baby during the conventional postnatal period that, generally, lasts for six weeks after birth.
  • For the newborns, the medical assessment service covers: a general health check-up, baby weighing, settling techniques, sleep patterns, assessment of neonatal conditions, infections and more.
  • For mothers, it includes a complete check-up of the vital parameters like blood pressure, monitoring of stitches, and prevention of any infection, dietary support to make up for the blood loss, post-caesarian care, and advice on family relationships.

The most common postnatal care services at home include the following day-to-day aspects:

  • Holding the newborn: Teaching parents the proper way to hold a newborn by our newborn babycare nurses .
  • Dietary care for lactation: Guiding a lactating mother on the right diet chart to follow for getting all the vital sources of nutrition for herself and her baby.
  • Baby bathing and massaging guide: Assisting parents with baby bathing and baby massaging and teaching them the correct ways to do so.
  • Baby feeding and maintaining feeding tools: Assisting mothers with handling and cleaning baby pump bottles.
  • Breastfeeding: There are a zillion questions that come to a lactating mother’s mind. From correct breastfeeding techniques to questions that range on the toll that it takes on women, there’s a whole Q&A session on breastfeeding that trained nurses are able to deliver.
  • Baby hygiene maintenance: This is very important for both babies. Babies contract infections easily from their mothers due to the close proximity and hence, it is important for mothers to maintain strong hygiene standards and professional home nurses are able to guide on the dos and don’ts.
  • Counselling to new mothers: Post-childbirth is a critical time for mothers as they often deal with depression, commonly referred to as post-partum depression, once the anticipation and wait is over. The bubble bursts and new mothers, sometimes, start fretting over issues like body weight, self-perception, perceived problems in conjugal life, getting back to normal life etc. Experienced and caring maternity nurses provide the right kind of counselling to mothers helping them counter symptoms and signs of anxiety with positive thoughts and an engaging schedule.

At Nightingale Dubai, we understand the need for a helping hand, a non-judgmental, patient friend, and a professional caregiver. Our well-versed maternity nurses provide world-class at-home postnatal services by combining updated knowledge with intuitive care.

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Maternity Care

Maternity nurses are medical angels who can lead you through a healthy, positive, and stress-free pregnancy

Mother with baby
Mother with baby
Mother with baby
Mother with baby

Mothers are at the center of the human life cycle. Unborn babies get their nutrition from their mothers’ right in the wombs and doctors across the world consider breast milk to be the most nourishing and purest form of nutrition for newborn babies. A baby’s wellbeing is intrinsically tied to the mother’s wellbeing. A healthy mother means a healthy child, and by extension, a healthy family.

While the thought of welcoming the new member of your family must be on top of your mind, there are a few medical parameters that you need to consider as you plan to have a baby.

A lot of the diseases found in children under five is accounted to undesirable maternal health conditions as well as lack of proper care administered during pregnancy and baby delivery.

If you are planning to become a mother, you should take an all-round approach towards your health as you are going to embark on a fulfilling, yet vulnerable journey. Your body and mind is going to undergo a lot of changes in the coming months and you must be prepared to deal with the new physiological developments and emotional switches.

Thus, proper maternity care is important to protect your body and help your baby’s development throughout gestation.

In addition to having your counterpart and family around for support, a trained and certified midwife can bring a holistic bouquet of professional care, childbirth-related education, and care for childbearing women and babies.

In fact, maternity nurses bring more than you may think. They can assist you with the entire process of pregnancy and its related challenges and complications and even after childbirth.

In the challenging lifestyles of today where your partner can’t sit back at home on too many working days, and when elders of the family themselves require medical attention, the role of the midwife becomes even more important. Such care is also effective in the case of single mothers or mothers living alone due to certain circumstances.

A professionally trained midwife can give a range of services to take care of the health and welfare needs of pregnant mothers as well as that of their babies during the important stages of pregnancy.

The areas of Maternity nurses specialization include the following:

  • Prenatal and postnatal awareness at home: Creating prenatal awareness is a form of an education program that enables mothers to be fully informed and aware of their bodies during pregnancy. Since pregnancy is a critical time for to-be-mothers, the right knowledge helps them reach a sound state of physiological and emotional wellbeing beforehand and also embrace childbirth in a more prepared and better equipped state.
  • Regular check-ups: This involves monitoring the health of both mothers and babies during various stages of pregnancy through ticking off of the vital parameters. If required, the midwife can assist in scheduling a thorough medical check-up. This process also helps in keeping the family updated with the evolving stages of the pregnancy.
  • One-to-one parent training and education at home: The maternity nurse is also responsible to educate the partner parent in easy one-to-one sessions at home on how to share responsibilities for parenting.
  • Maternal mental health care: This is the most crucial area of holistic wellbeing for mothers. Pregnant women often suffer from stress, anxiety, and prenatal as well as post-partum depression. A maternity nurse is best suited to be the perfect counselor to counter feelings of self-doubt and negativity among to-be mothers and guide them through this process like an expert friend.
  • Pregnancy hygiene control and wound care: The overall hygiene levels should be proper and highly regulated during the period of pregnancy, and hence, the role of a midwife becomes critical in maintaining that. A trained midwife will bring a gamut of sanitation kits and first-aid tools to maintain cleanliness of the concerned mother-to-be and to administer timely wound dressing.
  • Post birth mother and baby care: This involves helping mothers deal with the post-partum process and recovery.

Midwives are professionally trained to address the unique problems that soon-to-be mothers might face in a home environment. Additionally, given their experience at labor wards in hospitals, maternity nurses are organically tuned to think about prenatal care from a woman-oriented approach. Pregnant women need the constant attention and guidance of a trained and caring person, and a home nurse does just that.

Here’s a quick look at some of the most vital services provided by maternity nurses:

  • Preparing pregnant women for labor pain so that they are emotionally ready to deal with it.
  • Intimidating family about signs of labor and taking immediate action, informing hospitals, calling for ambulance etc.
  • Preparing mothers-to-be for normal delivery.
  • Working with contingency plans and dealing with emergencies when things do not go according to plans.
  • Preparing mothers-to-be/families for Cesarean deliveries.
  • Dealing with intense labor pain situations.
  • Providing the family with information on stem cell collection.

Caring for the caregiver of children is of paramount importance. So, at Nightingale Dubai, we make sure that you have a friendly face providing professional support, encouragement, and medical care to you throughout your pregnancy with our first-class midwife services in Dubai.

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