Meet Deb Boehne, RN - Director of Clinical Services
 

Southwestern Illinois Visiting Nurse Association brings quality health care home! Our staff of medical professionals is here to partner with your personal physician to help you or your loved one recover from illness or injury in the comfort of your own home. Services are available seven day a week. A registered nurse is accessible by telephone 24 hours per day.

Services

• Medication Management - instruction on what each medication does and the importance of taking it as ordered, identifying side effects and knowing when to report them, developing strategies to help patients manage complex drug regimes.

• Disease Process - causes, warning signs, symptoms to report, risk factors, coping with lifestyle changes, and reinforcing physician instructions.

• Techniques - managing catheter care, g-tube care, wound care, using medical equipment safely and effectively.

• Reporting to Physician - what to report to the physician, reinforcing importance of keeping all scheduled physician appointments.

• Diet instruction.

Medical Care - our staff is well-versed in general medicine and med-surg aftercare. We employ an advanced practice nurse who specializes in wound and ostomy care and who educates our nursing staff on the latest techniques (check out our Wound/Ostomy Care page for additional information). Specific care plan protocols are utilized for Congestive Heart Failure, Diabetes Mellitus, Chronic Pulmonary Disease, and Hypertension (high blood pressure) which provides for continuity of care and reduced re-hospitalizations.


Pain Control - managing pain from home can be accomplished. Our staff will work closely with you to identify coping strategies and other techniques, and with your physician as appropriate medication dosage is established when needed and/or when dosage change is deemed necessary.


Incontinence Management - excercise, diet and lifestyle modifications can be taught to impove urinary continence to allow for a more active lifestyle.


Therapy - therapists work with patients to improve mobility, provide transfer training, implement SIVNA's Fall Prevention Program when appropriate, identify need for home equipment and educate patients and/or loved ones on its safe use. Joint replacement, fracture repair and/or traumatic injury are all appropriate for in-home therapy services. When needed, therapy services may re-enable or improve a patient's ability to safely perform everyday tasks such as personal care, dressing, bathing, transferring, walking, etc.


Community Based Resource Referrals - services available through other community-based agencies may be an additional source of potential help for those who need them and qualify for them. Referrals will be made upon patient request.


Re-entry into the Home Environment - patients who have been hospitalized or have been in convalescence and are being re-introduced to the home setting are taught how to cope with their condition at home. The home environment is assessed for home safety issues that the patient and/or family may need to address.


SIVNA accepts Medicare, Medicaid, Private Insurance and Patient Pay.