What is Concierge Nursing?

A Concierge Nurse is a registered nurse (RN) in that provides personalized nursing care to clients in a variety of settings. The RN might visit you at your home, hotel room, AirBnB, hospital room, or may accompany you when you travel or when you visit your doctor or other medical provider.

The types of services provided are only limited by the RN’s license and their individual area(s) of expertise. You may be familiar with private duty nurses who provide full-time, live-in care for a single client. Concierge nursing takes this concept and combines it with a little bit of home health and a big dash of entrepreneurial spirit.

How does Concierge Nursing differ from Home Health?

A Concierge Nurse is an independently practicing professional RN. This means that they are not employed by a home care agency, hospital, or physician’s office.

Unlike most home health agencies, Concierge RNs do not bill insurance companies or government health plans so they are not limited by these plans when providing services to you. A Concierge RN can provide any service that you wish to pay for – that is, as long as the service is within the “scope of practice” of a RN or is something that does not require any special licensing (such as shopping, meal prep, home management, transportation, and companionship).

What can RNs do without a Doctor's Order?

In short; A LOT! It is a common misconception that a Registered Nurse only fulfills doctors’ orders. In reality, nursing is its own healthcare specialty. Nurses support the health of individuals and communities by working along side medical doctors and other medical providers. All Registered Nurses are licensed to practice nursing independent of a physician by their state’s Nursing Practice Act.Yes; nurses are also licensed to fulfill doctors’ orders. Sometimes, doctors’ orders are required before a nurse can provide a certain procedure or treatment. When this is required, the Nurse works with the Doctor providing medical oversight and authorization (orders) to coordinate your care.

RNs provide an enormous range of patient care that does not require a doctor’s order. Like your doctor, your nurse uses specific processes, training, and skills to diagnose problems and develop a plan to treat them.

Your doctor uses things like blood and urine tests, x-rays, MRIs, biopsies, and EKGs to assign a diagnosis to your signs and symptoms and then prescribe medical treatments such as medications, surgery, or the use of prescription medical devices.

Your nurse uses a somewhat different process. The process of diagnosing and prescribing nursing treatments is call the “Nursing Process”. The RN uses this information to develop a Nursing Care Plan to meet your health goals.