We believe every child deserves to receive quality pediatric home healthcare.
Pediatric Private Duty Nursing
The San Rafael Pediatric Home Health Care Program is a comprehensive and highly specialized initiative aimed at delivering uninterrupted medical care to children suffering from chronic illnesses. It follows a patient-centric model where a nurse from San Rafael is assigned to a household to look after the needs of the patient within the comfort of their home environment. The duration and regularity of services are calibrated based on the specific medical requirements of each child, ensuring personalized care is offered to meet each child's unique needs.
The San Rafael pediatric nursing team is adept at providing an array of specialized care and services, including:
Pediatric Ventilator Support: Some children may require the use of ventilators due to various respiratory conditions. The San Rafael nurse ensures the correct functioning of the machine, monitors the patient's vitals, and provides necessary adjustments to maintain optimal breathing patterns.
Pediatric Tracheotomies: In cases where a child has a tracheostomy, the San Rafael pediatric nurse provides comprehensive care, including cleaning the site, changing dressings, and managing any complications, such as blockages or infections.
Pediatric G Buttons and NGT/G-Tubes: For children who cannot consume food orally due to illness or physical constraints, the San Rafael pediatric nurse manages G buttons and nasogastric/gastric tubes, ensuring the safe and proper administration of nutrition and medication.
Pediatric Feeding Pumps: In cases where a feeding pump is required for accurate and regular nutrition delivery, the pediatric nurse takes responsibility for its operation and cleaning, as well as the child's monitoring during feedings.
Pediatric Oxygen/Pulse Oximetry Needs: Children with respiratory or cardiac issues may need supplemental oxygen or ongoing pulse oximetry monitoring. The San Rafael pediatric nurse will manage the oxygen delivery systems and continuously monitor oxygen saturation to ensure the child remains stable.
Pediatric Nebulizer Treatments: Nebulizers are often used for children with respiratory illnesses. The pediatric nurse administers these treatments, ensuring correct usage and monitoring for any adverse reactions.
Pediatric Respiratory Insufficiency: Pediatric nurses are trained to detect and manage signs of respiratory distress in children, providing immediate care and coordinating with other healthcare professionals when necessary.
Pediatric Neurological Deficiencies and Syndromes: If a child is dealing with a neurological condition, the San Rafael pediatric nurse provides specialized care, managing symptoms, assisting with physical therapy routines, and working closely with the child's neurologist to monitor progress and adjust treatment plans.
Pediatric Seizure Disorders: For children with epilepsy or other seizure disorders, the pediatric nurse provides careful monitoring, administers medication as prescribed, and takes necessary action during a seizure episode, prioritizing the child's safety.
Pediatric Severe Developmental Delays and Genetic Disorders: The San Rafael pediatric nurse also works with children who have severe developmental delays or genetic disorders, providing tailored care to meet their needs, from facilitating developmental therapies to managing daily care routines.
The San Rafael Pediatric Home Health Care Program offers thorough, professional, and compassionate in-home pediatric care as part of a comprehensive strategy for maintaining the health and wellness of chronically ill children.
Pediatric Occupational
Therapy
San Rafael provides skilled treatment that helps individuals achieve greater independence and functionality in their daily lives.
Pediatric occupational therapy strives to provide the tools and skills to maintain day to day tasks like feeding, dressing, cooking, ambulating and other motor tasks to patients. By providing the tools and training to work around possible injuries and conditions can vastly improve quality of life and improve functionality and the ability to return to a more normal routine.
What Pediatric Occupational Therapists Do:
Help achieve developmental milestones
Educate parents and other care givers
Improve cognition
Encourage problem-solving for day to day tasks
Benefits of Pediatric Occupational Therapy:
Individual and Case by Case Activities and Exercises
Improvement of Functionality and Quality of Life
Encourages more Normal Routines and Return to Day to Day Functions
Improved Independence and Mobility
Pediatric Physical
Therapy
San Rafael offers skilled treatments for pediatric patients to help their gross motor skills, coordination and acute injury rehabilitation.
The goal of pediatric physical therapy is to improve mobility, function and quality of life. Physical therapists use their medical experience and training as well as the patient's medical history and the long and short-term goals. Physical therapy is not just simply exercise: the main goal is to improve mobility and quality of life.
What Pediatric Physical Therapists Do:
Provide Case by Case Individual Exercise Lists
Encourage Stretching and Other Physical Activities
Keep Muscles Active
Improve Muscle Mobility and Functionality through Stretching and Exercise
Benefits of Pediatric Physical Therapy Include:
Strengthen Muscles
Relieve Pain
Aid in Injury or Surgery Healing
Improve Mobility
Improve Balance and Prevent Falls
Manage Vascular Conditions
Prevent Further Injury or Illness
Manage Heart and Lung Conditions
Pediatric Speech
Therapy
San Rafael offers treatments for pediatric patients that have difficult with verbal communication. Our speech therapy program includes receptive and expressive language skills, oral motor skill improvement and improved feeding skills.
Speech therapy helps improve the use of motor skills, communication disorders and swallowing disorders. Swallowing disorders can arise in children with some chronic illnesses and they can seriously impact communication as well as feeding and breathing.
What Pediatric Speech Therapists Do:
Assess Communication Needs and Concerns
Assess and Help Treat Swallowing Disorders and Concerns
Improve Oral Motor and Oral Feeding Concerns and Issues
Assess and Improve Auditory Processing Concerns and Disorders
Assist and Assess Articulation Concerns
Benefits of Pediatric Speech Therapy Include:
Help Provide Crucial Communication Skills
Assistance and Improvement of Swallowing Functionality
Improvement of Social Skills through Improved Communication
Cognitive Benefits
Assistance with Various Non-Verbal Methods of Communication like:
Sign Language
Sign Boards
Picture Communication
