Nursing Care at Home for Children
Who needs nursing care at home for children?
Sick children get healthy best at home. With serious illnesses, the parents often need help with nursing their children to health. That is why Volkshilfe provides nursing care at home for children.
Nurses visit the families at home. They help with changing bandages, give medicines and answer questions. Thus the parents feel secure and the children do not have to go to the hospital so often for examinations.
What does nursing care at home for children do?
The employees of the nursing care at home are there for children and parents:
- When the parents of sick children need help
- After an operation
- When wounds do not heal
- When children are born too early
- When children cannot swallow without help
- To take blood
- When children are ill from birth
A doctor has to prescribe the nursing care at home for children.
What does nursing care at home for children cost?
You have to pay a part of the cost yourself. The rest is paid by the Upper Austrian government.
How much you have to pay depends on your income.