Services

Providing services and caring for people in their homes or retirement communities is more than a list.
We do have a list but it is what we do with that list, how care is started and what happens when you need something that is not on that list that sets No Worries apart.

Personal Assistance and Care

• Companionship
• Respite Care
• Light housekeeping (vacuuming, sweeping, mopping floors, dusting)
• Clean bathroom and kitchen (do dishes)
• Laundry
• Garbage removal
• Closet organization
• Watering plants
• Changing linens, make bed
• Shopping and Errands
• Meal Planning and Preparation
• Special Diets and Nutrition
• Feeding Assistance
• Supporting Interests and Hobbies
• Scheduling and Transport for Appointments
• Scheduling and Transport for Activities

Activities of Daily Living

• Dressing (including compression stockings)
• Grooming (shaving, combing hair, etc.)
• Oral hygiene (brushing, denture or partial care)
• Bathing (bed, tub, shower)
• Assist with Safe Toileting
• Skin Care
• Bed Care (bathing, incontinence, repositioning)
• Assist with Hearing Aids
• Medication Reminders
• Medication Administration

Health and Safety

• Monitoring Vital Signs (BP, HR, RR)
• Diabetic Care (monitoring blood sugar)
• Diabetic Care (delegation for insulin administration)
• Measure and Monitor Intake and Output
• Catheter Care
• Wound Care
• Incontinence Care
• Constipation Care
• Dementia/Alzheimer’s Care
• Comfort care for clients on Hospice
• Oxygen (nasal cannula, mask, humidified, etc.)
• Nebulizer Treatments
• Oral Suctioning

Mobility and Communication

• Assistance with Occupational Therapy Exercises
• Assistance with Physical Therapy Exercises
• Braces (back, leg, arm, neck)
• Assist with Prosthetics or Orthotic Devices
• Assistance with Walking (cane, walker, gait belt)
• Wheelchair Care (transfers, repositioning)
• Fall Prevention
• Repositioning
• Incontinence Care
• Transfer (pivot, slider board)
• Transfer (Hoyer lift)
• Speech Therapy Exercises
• Communication (visual, hearing, speech impaired)

Complex care is a special service only available because of our high level of licensure and our dedicated team of nurses.
Because nurses oversee all client care needs, a person with more complex needs can receive the benefits of our personal care with the added layer of support, protection and skill of complex care.

Our Caregivers are provided a specific nursing delegation and work under the nurse’s license to assist with intermittent straight catheterization, feeding and medication administration via a feeding tube, care and cleaning for tracheostomy, colostomy and also complex wound care.

Our Caregivers are trained and comfortable with administering controlled substances for pain and anxiety and are fully able to assist with complex hospice patients as well.

Complex Care

• Two Person Care
• Ostomy Care
• Complex Wound Care
• Complex Behavioral Care
• Complex Pain Management
• Intermittent Straight Catheterization
• Feeding via NG, PEG or Gastric Tube
• Medication Administration via NG, PEG or Gastric tube
• Tracheostomy Care and Deep Suctioning
• Other Nursing Delegated Tasks

There is so much more that can be done with our Custom Care!
Whether we are providing care during a vacation in or out of state, short-term, postsurgical care or helping to plan a home for aging in place, No Worries can do it all.

It’s all about “Yes”

• • “Yes, we can fly to Florida and pick up a lovely grandmother who wants to come to Portland for a special family gathering.”
  • “Yes, we can evacuate you, and all of your equipment to a hotel when your well-pump freezes.”
  • “Yes, we will provide complex care to your loved one with ALS.”
  • “Yes, we can dismantle our skills lab hospital bed and bring it over and set it up so you don’t have to return to rehab tonight because your hospital bed didn’t get delivered.”

At No Worries we have the freedom to say “Yes” and that is what Custom Care is all about.

We can’t always plan ahead for our care needs. Early hospital discharges, sudden changes in needs and unexpected accidents or illness can all require help fast.

With our “Quick Start” program, we are able to start services with very short notice. Our team basically “drops everything” to make sure you have exactly the care you need when you need it.

Some Quick Start Stories

Two hours was the time it took after receiving a call to care for a hospice client, who needed help immediately, to get caregivers scheduled and Jason Sanders, RN on his way to get care started. Our caregivers are incredible and had compassion. One caregiver got the call from us while she was in Portland and went to her daughter’s home to get some sleep so she could work the night shift as she lived about an hour away and this allowed her time to get enough sleep. Caregivers changed their personal plans so they could help this family.

I received a call from a daughter who had been up 35 hours caring for her mother. The daughter was exhausted and needed help. Teresa and I were the only nurses in the office. It was 3:15 PM. I was leaving town and needed to be out the door at 4:45 PM. Teresa had an appointment after work, but we looked at each other and knew we had to try. Everyone in the office dropped everything, which is something we are used to doing for our Quick Start Care clients, but this was a bit of a stretch. However, because the client lived close, hospice got us the orders quickly and a caregiver dropped everything to go help, Teresa was at the client’s home before 5:00 PM and the client received the care she needed while her daughter was able to get some sleep.

Late Friday morning we received a call that a client in a rehab facility was going to be discharged and they wanted to be home in a few hours. The situation was very complex including tracheostomy care, tube feeding and more, but our nurses pulled it off and the client was in his home that afternoon. Nurse Jason was out Friday night until after 10:00 PM and Nurse Teresa went out on a Saturday evening to delegate to the night caregiver. This is the most complicated Quick Start Care client we have had and it was fun to work together to make it happen for this very nice client who really wanted to go home.

Quick Start Care

When you need care NOW
Office: 503-641-4949
After hours nurse line: 503-672-8712