Visiting Our Core Values – Caring Professionals

Nurses typically choose their profesión because they are caring people. We admire and applaud this compassionate trait, and we want to serve our clients with caring professionalism.

At Communities of Care, we emphasize the need to blend professional boundaries with care and compassion. We have specific trainings on professional boundaries that nurses view during the hiring process and review annually. We have an open-door policy for discussions about professional boundaries. Home care can have many unique gray areas, where there may not be a clear rule or precedent. We invite dialogue and conversation with nurses and clients to determine the best approach for everyone.

One of the most important elements of professional boundaries is open and honest communication, which is a cornerstone of our culture at Communities of Care. We keep conversation lines open between clients, nurses, client families, physicians, and our office staff. We are proud to be a leader in professional and compassionate home care in the Twin Cities.

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Excellence in Home Care, What is Home Care?

July 6, 2022

Joan Vaughn

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Written by Joan Vaughn

I’m Joan, and I know home care from the inside out. I’ve navigated my daughter through 24/7 home care nursing and managed her PCA’s. I’ve helped my parents move into (and out of) assisted living, Medicare episodes, skilled nurse visits, home health aids, and PCAs. Sandwiched in all of that, I’ve helped coordinate home care equipment and supplies, physical therapists, occupational therapists, county workers, and medications (oh, the medications). I know emergency departments, children’s hospitals, cancer wards, cardiac floors, and specialty units. I can recite health insurance policies (and call their bluff). I know a lot of other things in life too, like Shakespeare, where to sit to see a great sunset over a lake, how to keep myself healthy, how to read a profit/loss statement and state statutes, when to use a comma, and that gratitude is one of the keys to success. So I’m going to have this blog and write about home care from time to time. I’ll include topics like current legislation, professional boundaries in a tricky environment, and being a caregiver. I’ll also post some guest blogs from clients and nurses. Join me in the conversation.

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