Intensive Care at Home Now in the U.S.

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Patrik: Hello and welcome to another intensivecareathome.com podcast. At Intensive Care at Home, we provide tailor-made solutions for long-term ventilated adults and children with tracheostomies and where we also provide tailor-made solutions for hospitals and intensive care units. We’re providing quality services, and we also provide services for home TPN (total parenteral nutrition) clients.

In this podcast today, I have a very special guest. I’ve got Tara Thorpe here today from Dallas in the U.S.

Hi, Tara. How are you?

Tara: Hi.

Patrik: Tara, thank you so much.

Tara: Good, thank you. I’m so excited to be here.

Patrik: It’s great to have you, Tara. Thank you so much for coming onto the call. I really appreciate it.

Tara, you used to work for us for Intensive Care at Home here in Melbourne, Australia, a couple of years ago. You worked for us probably for over two years, and you’ve really embraced the work here. The clients really gave us fantastic feedback about you, and I believe you enjoyed working for us here.

Now, you’re in the U.S., and on some of my videos and podcasts, I have already shared that we are trying to set up Intensive Care at Home in the U.S., and Tara is now our clinical liaison nurse in the U.S.

Tara, tell us a little bit more about yourself. Tell us a little bit more about your nursing career and what made you interested in coming to Intensive Care at Home in the first place.

Tara: So, my name is Tara. I’ve been an RN for about four to five years now. I started actually working in LTAC (long-term acute care) as a junior nurse, and then I moved to the ICU, and then I moved to Australia and did travel there with Intensive Care at Home. Now, I’m back here in the states working for Intensive Care at Home as well as working on the trauma floor in Texas at Fort Worth.

So, what really inspired me to work at Intensive Care at Home in Melbourne was having the ability to take care of patients in the privacy of their home, but also maintaining my skills and still being challenged by the intensive care aspect as well.

Patrik: Yeah. Obviously, for some of you that follow my videos and my blogs, you would’ve heard me talking about many inquiries from the U.S. for Intensive Care at Home, but we haven’t really been able to help so far. Now, we are in the process of trying to help more clients in the U.S., and the way we’re trying to approach this at the moment is that this video, as much as it is for families and patients in intensive care, it’s also for other providers that would like to partner with us because if you can meet our quality standards, which is sending intensive care nurses into the home for predominantly long-term ventilated adults and children, we would love to work together with you, and with the families, and with the clients to improve their quality of life.

Now, Tara, talking about quality standards. You’ve worked with us here in Melbourne. You’ve seen our quality standards. You’ve gotten to know our team. You’ve gotten to know the clients. What’s your take on quality standards in the community? How important is it from what you’ve seen?

Tara: Oh, incredibly important. It’s literally the difference between life of a patient and keeping them safe. I remember we had a joke at Intensive Care at Home that we were the “Cadillac of all the nurses in the community” there. So, one of our patients, her mom was talking about how she was so impressed by the professionalism of Intensive Care at Home and how she felt so incredibly safe to sleep well at night because she knew that her daughter was in the best hands.

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