A14 - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, December 6, 1995 Expanded nursing program © MAKE IT AKENWOOD} could ease hospital woes HARD PRESSED Mills Memorial. Hospital may get a bit of help thanks to an ex- panded home care nursing program: here. Nurses from the continu- ing care section of. the Skeena Health Unit have for years offered a day time ser- vice, But now that service has been expanded to include an afternoon shift, The idea is to provide patients with another | care option, — And, being able to offer a night time . service’ might keep people in their homes who otherwise might be overnight patients at Mills. That latter will benefit the hospital which is striggling to reduce its patient load and trim costs.) **There’s more of an em- phasis. to look for op- portunities and initiatives to make the. best use of the Tesources we have avail- able,” says continuing care manager Dave Dennis. The afternoon shift very much continues the. efforts begun by the provincial government's Closer ta Home program which seeks to divert people away from hospitals and to community- based heallh care. Dennis is quick to note that the addition’. of the afternoon nursing ‘shift was done without an overall budget increase. He said discussions on ‘the afternoon shift began as a way of trying to help. Mills ease its financial position. Continuing care super- visor Vicki Fowler. said home care nurses. can change dressings, adminis- ter medications and provide ° palliative care. -“There’s a growing need to find ways so patients no longer need to be in hospi- tals or don’t need to o be there — at all,” she said, Home care nurses also do a lot of ‘teaching and find that ‘family ‘méimbers: of ‘a person needing care may not be available in the day time, Fowler added.” "We're not taking over what a hospital provides. What we're doing is teach- ing that person or teaching Last. meeting | THE BODY which ms Mills Memorial ‘Hospital and = Terraceview Lodge holds its last annual general meeting tomorrow night. | By early next. year, the Terrace Regional . Health Care Society will disappear, to be replaced by the area’s new | community health council. There'll be one last meet-— ing of the health care. society to officially tum over its duties to the new council. But before that happens, the council has to submit a health management plan to the provincial government, says Bod Kelly, _ its chairman. “*Ie’s slow, I'll tell you it's really slow, so slow it gets frustrating,” said Kelly of the nin up to the health councll officially taking over local health care responsibilities, The community health councils are but one part of the provincial government’s plan to move health care de- cision making out of Vic-— foria. Northwest community health councils will report to a regional heallb board, also in the middle of being estab- lished, This regional health board will receive money from the provincial government and _ divide it between com- munity health councils. Although progress is slow, Kelly says the groundwork is necessary, “You had better have all your ducks in a row before somebody is going to tum over that much money,” he said, The combined budgets of. Mills Memorial and Ter- raceview alone amount ‘to $15 million. , HAVE SUPPLIES, will travel. Home care nurse Lori Weber travels to homes in the Terrace area. The pragram’s been expanded to include an afternoon shift as one more way of avoiding the expense of having people stay at hospitals overnight. family members what to do,’’ she said. Home care nurses might soon be adding IV proce- dures to their list of ac- tivities. Having ~ that procedure done at home is seen‘as one more. way of avoiding people having to use a hos- pital’s services. "There are two ways to. go with this program. To. teach patients themselves to do it or the other is to have nurses do it, That still hasn’t been determined,’’ Fowler said. One advantage of doing IVs outside of the hospital is a reduced chance of a per- son coming inte contact with people who have colds or the flu, she said. Nurse Lori Weber has only been working on home care in Terrace for about a month. — _ After eight years of hospi- tal experience, Weber said she was looking for another challenge. You. hear phrase ‘closer to home’ and ‘that catch: see the writing on the wall, ” Weber said. ‘As a nurse going into the home, I see my job as help- ing that person stay in their own home,”’ she said. Weber says people who are able to stay at home {eel more power when it comes to making health care deci- sions. “People often feel power- less in a hospital environ- ment. 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