Nightingale’s Nursing Supervisors are highly trained, experienced nurses who specialized in chronic disease management. 

What is chronic disease management? 

• An integrated care approach to managing illness which includes screenings, check-ups, monitoring and coordinating treatment, and patient education. It can improve your quality of life while reducing your health care costs if you have a chronic disease by preventing or minimizing the effects of a disease.

Why is it so important?

How do Nightingale’s Nursing Supervisors assist with this?

A 2017 survey from Kelton and West Healthcare showed that 80 percent of patients know they must improve their chronic care self-management, but require a provider’s help to do so.

• Check medications to ensure they are being taken properly
• Design custom exercise programs to improve physical health
• Assist with diet planning and teaching
• Assist with preventing (re)hospitalizations
• Education on the disease(s) to assist with base understanding
• Training of staff to recognize the signs and symptoms of exacerbation of chronic disease to stop worsening of symptoms
• Assist with planning and implementation of proactive measures to counter act adverse effects of chronic diseases
• Ongoing education to client, family and staff to changes in management of chronic diseases.

What is the cost?

• Free
• Nada
• Included
• $0.00

What else do nursing supervisors do?

• Home safety checks to include fall prevention
• Disaster preparedness and planning 
• Healthiest home assessments and recommendations
• Observation of care to ensure all tasks are being performed with the maximum benefit 
• Assessments to verify that the plan of care and treatment are being followed and are custom tailored to the client’s individual needs
• Communication with doctors’ offices
• Communication with physical, speech and occupational therapy 
• Routine reporting to out of state family with approval from the client
• Hospital follow up visits to further enhance prevention of rehospitalization and ensure care is tailored to the client’s potential new needs. 
• CPR training for staff