Helping you manage your health.
We have a team of dedicated nurses who work with you, and your family doctor, to improve and manage your health. They provide individualized support for many health concerns and offer specialized care in many areas.
Chronic Disease Prevention & Management
If you’re dealing with chronic health concerns – such as diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, asthma, COPD or weight issues – we can help. We collaborate with family physicians and other members of our health care team to create a care plan that supports and promotes healthy lifestyle changes and disease prevention.
Diabetes Focus
Our nurses provide education and support, and insulin counselling to patients who are diabetic including those who have been newly diagnosed and patients who are at risk of developing the disease (pre-diabetic).
Patients receive:
- Generalized lifestyle teaching
- Blood sugar control/stabilization
- Initiation and titration of insulin (with physician approval)
- Diabetic foot assessments
Other areas our CDM nurses help with:
- Respiratory management (Asthma/COPD)
- Weight management goals and support
- Disease-prevention and screening
- Promote healthy lifestyle, create care plans and provide education
- Blood pressure testing, monitoring and education
- Memory testing
- Oral medication management with physician approval
- Explain lab work or other test results, and assist with filling out forms when needed
- Injections
- Smoking cessation coping strategies and resources
- Internal referrals to other PCN clinicians (dietitian, mental health therapist, kinesiologist or pharmacist)
Anticoagulation Management - INR Monitoring Program
Our INR nurses are a lifeline to our patients. In this program, our team provides essential INR monitoring and advice on dosaging to patients taking the blood clotting medication Warfarin (Coumadin).*
Working closely with your family doctor, the team uses a physician developed protocol to monitor and manage INR levels. Starting out, patients have their INRs done twice a week, then graduate to weekly and bi-weekly monitoring. We:
• Provide education on medication, and the signs and symptoms of bleeding and clotting
• Advise patients when they need to change their dosage
• Provide lab requisitions for INR or other relevant blood work
• Monitor results and follow-up
With everything that affects INR levels (medications, food, alcohol, exercise, stress and illness), monitoring is vital to our affected patients. We also work closely with home collections, pharmacists, and family members to help keep patients safe.
*Other clotting drugs are Apixaban (Eliquis), Dabigatran (Pradaxa), Edoxaban (Savaysa) or Rivaroxaban (Xarelto).
Low Risk Obstetrics Care
Through the Mom Care Docs at the Allin Clinic, our low-risk obstetric nurse provides prenatal and postnatal care to obstetric patients. Our nurse completes an assessment on every pre-natal client, and offers education and support.
If you are expecting (congratulations!) and looking for obstetrics care, please visit the Mom Care Docs website.
24 Hour Blood Pressure Monitoring
Our team gets you started on your monitor and teaches you how it works, and they provide follow-up with your physician regarding your results.
How to Access Our Nursing Services
To access our disease management and nursing services, your family physician must be part of our PCN. She/he will likely be the one to send you to see us, or, if you are already seeing one of our PCN clinicians (dietitian, kinesiologist or therapist), they can also facilitate a referral to our nursing staff.
Need to find a doctor? Go to our FIND A DOCTOR page to see clinics accepting new patients.