Abstract

The complex health care needs of patient's that the home infusion therapy involved home care services following are tailored. Nowadays especially the patients having chronic diseases want to be treated at home. To meet the patients’ complex health requirements, curing at home services by maintaining infusion treatments is done. The areas where infusion treatment usually applied are; infectious diseases that need heavy antibiotic cures, cancer, treatment of cancer pain, transplantations and gastrointestinal diseases. Special infusion treatments are used especially at congestive heart failure, crohn disease, hemophilia, immune deficiency, multiple sclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis, diabetes type of diseases. It is anticipated that infusion treatment at home will decrease the time of staying in hospital, decrease the risk of infection, decrease the treatment costs of chronic diseases by preventive health services, decrease the invisible costs (companion, transportation expenses, labor costs, etc.) by incorporation of patient relatives, remove the costs that arise from the problems of relatives, decrease the return to the hospital, emergency department or intensive care services. The role of home-care nurse is being a coordinator and support person for the patients and staffs.