Minnesota Visiting Nurse Agency

Mission Statement

The Mission of the Minnesota Visiting Nurse Agency (MVNA) is to provide comprehensive and culturally competent Community Health and related services in collaboration with Public Health and Health Service Providers to ensure a healthy future for Minnesota residents.

Values

MVNA believes that all residents have a right to receive quality based, culturally competent services to improve their health and remain independent.

• Aggressively pursues resources to allow MVNA to service those without financial means or whose needs extend beyond the traditional medical model.
• Advocates for meeting the health related needs of disadvantaged people.
• Actively works with the Public Sector to achieve public health goals for populations

MVNA promotes Public Health Nursing practice.

Family Centered:

• Takes a holistic approach to the family.
• Promotes independence and supports self-care within the family.
• Ensure effective connection between existing community resources and the family.
• Promotes client and family participation in the plan for service delivery.
• Strengthens and develops abilities within the family to maximize their potential in coping with their health and social needs.

Community Centered:

• Participates in the education of the future health practitioners and contribute to the knowledge base of public health nursing and home care delivery systems.
• Participates in community planning and coordination of services so that the appropriate range of health and human services will be systematically developed and implemented.
• Provides services to organizations which promote the public good.

MVNA believes that each person on our staff makes a difference in the work and the mission of MVNA.

• Everyone is responsible for excellence.
• Creativity and entrepreneurship is recognized and encouraged.
• Multidisciplinary team participation is essential for MVNA and staff to be successful.
• All efforts are customer responsive.
• Professional growth and development are encouraged.

Hospice of the Twin Cities

Hospice of the Twin Cities offers comprehensive care focused on easing the physical, emotional and spiritual pain that often accompanies terminal illness. Offering outstanding care, the hospice team members are dedicated professionals who specialice in meeting the individualized needs of terminally ill patients and their families.

A Promise

• Hospice Care is a promise given to those individuals facing illness when choices seem so few.
• Hospice offers terminally ill individuals an alternative to aggressive curative treatments.
• Hospice provides care that focuses on the person, not the disease, empowering individuals to live with dignity while remaining alert and pain free.
• Hospcie is about living life to the fullest in secure and familiar surroundings with those who matter the most, family and friends.

Home Health

The Minnesota Visiting Nurse Agency provides a full range of home health care services for clients. Our nursing staff receives ongoing educational training to update their clinical knowledge and technical skills. MVNA’s in-home care is safe, effective and of a high clinical quality that meets all medical practice standards.

Nursing care:

• Professional nursing case management
• Skilled nursing care for acute, chronic and maintenance level needs
• Skilled observation and assessment of vital signs, response to medications and treatments
• Instruction in safe home management of various acute and chronic diseases or disabling conditions
• Instruction in self care and disease process for diabetes, lung, and heart disease
• Instruction in gastric feeding tubes, ostomy, ileostomy and colostomy care
• Post-surgical care, wound care and blood draws
• Bowel and incontinence care
• Administration of intramuscular/subcutaneous injections
• Administration and instruction in IV (intravenous) therapies
• Physical, speech and occupational therapy
• Block Nurse Programs
• Services to the terminally ill (Palliative and Hospice care)

Home health aides work under the direction of a Registered Nurse (RN). They help with day-to-day personal care, bathing and ambulation. They also provide nutritional, social and emotional support.

Homemakers also work under the direction of an RN. They help with day-to-day household needs and prepare an activity plan and appropriate service hours. They assist with meal preparation, including grocery shopping and meal planning. Homemakers also provide companionship and limited personal care services.