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The Importance of Caregivers

Caregivers are very instrumental in patient’s care, says Tina Jacomino, MSN, RN, Director of Home Care with Baptist Health South Florida. She also explains caregivers are in the day-to-day with the patients. The experts considers it’s important to teach them about what they want to do when it’s time to move on the patient to another progression of care. However, the expert says home care isn’t around-the-clock care.

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