Private Duty Nursing Services
We’re here to help. Trusted private duty nursing care for complex health needs, offering recovery and support in the comfort of home.
Our Private Duty Nursing Services
Since 2004, LifeWorx has served over 2,500 families with compassionate and reliable private duty nursing services that seniors and their families can depend on. Having provided private duty nursing services throughout New York, Connecticut, New Jersey, and Florida, we are continuously reminded that each client’s needs are different, each family and support network is different, and each living situation is different.
Our private nursing services provide advanced medical care for individuals with complex health needs, allowing them to receive high-quality treatment in the comfort of their home. Our nursing team is led by our highly qualified Director of Patient Services, Dwiann Morgan, who is licensed and oversees the Directors of Nursing in each state where we operate. Our nurses are experienced professionals who bring compassion and expertise to every client.
Whether your loved one requires temporary nursing care following a hospital discharge, ongoing medical support, or simply prefers the peace of mind that a more extensively trained professional can provide, private duty nursing offers a flexible solution, personalized to your needs.
Post-Operative Care
Recovering from surgery requires careful attention to ensure proper healing and minimize the risk of complications. Private duty nursing provides critical support during recovery, ensuring clients can heal with privacy, comfort, and dignity.
Our nurses’ responsibilities include monitoring vital signs to detect warning signs of complications and providing wound care by cleaning incisions and changing dressings to reduce the risk of infections. Private duty nurses are equipped to help clients regain mobility, whether through encouragement to get out of bed or guidance with physical therapy exercises.
With specialized training, their attention to detail can reduce the likelihood of readmission and will promote a smoother recovery process.
Medication Management & Administration
Managing medications accurately is vital to recovery and long-term health. Private duty nurses are skilled in all aspects of medication management, ensuring clients take the correct medications at the right times and dosages. This includes organizing medications, setting reminders, and explaining the need for each drug to the client to help them understand and comply.
Private duty nurses are also trained to administer injections, manage IV therapies, and look out for adverse reactions to medications. With careful medication routines, our nurses help clients recover while avoiding dangerous medication errors.
Patient Advocacy
Private duty nurses serve as strong advocates for their clients, making sure their needs are prioritized and that they receive the highest standard of care. A private duty nurse can act as a liaison, ensuring that the client’s questions and concerns are addressed during appointments or hospital follow-ups.
Private duty nurses can also help families understand medical terminology, empowering them to make informed decisions about care plans and treatments. In addition to coordinating care, private duty nurses can identify potential issues and bring them to the attention of physicians for better health outcomes and communicate to family members who may not be able to be physically present.
Chronic Condition Monitoring
For clients with chronic conditions, such as diabetes, heart disease, or COPD, private duty nursing provides constant monitoring and management to ensure stability and prevent complications.
Their role involves tracking important health metrics, such as blood sugar levels and blood pressure, to detect any changes that may need intervention. Private duty nurses work with physicians to adjust care plans as needed. They also focus on reducing hospital readmissions by identifying early warning signs.
With their attentive care, clients can better manage their chronic conditions, maintain a higher quality of life, and avoid unnecessary medical emergencies.
Long-Term Care Insurance Management
With years of experience in managing long-term care insurance claims for our clients and an impressive track record of having never lost an appeal for services, our Long-Term Care Insurance team, helmed by Wiktoria Gnojek, is here to offer complimentary policy reviews and answer any questions you might have on initiating claims and receiving reimbursements.
Our in-house long-term care insurance experts take care of all the meticulous paperwork and filing for you to ensure we maximize your benefits. Let us take care of the administrative aspects of long-term care insurance for your loved one, from assessment to devising a care plan, submitting appeals, and processing invoices, payments, and reimbursements, allowing you to focus on other aspects of their care.
Visit one of our offices to pick up a copy of our complete guide to long-term care insurance and find out how to get the most out of a long-term care policy.
Have questions about your Long-Term Care Insurance policy?
How it Works
Discuss your private care needs
Documenting medical needs is the easy part. Where the work comes in is understanding your loved one’s personality, their triggers and limitations, and any barriers to potentially accepting care for the first time.
Meet our nurses
You’ll meet several fully vetted nurses, each with a summary of their skills and experience, activities they enjoy engaging in with clients, personality traits, background and interests, quotes from their reference transcripts, and a photo from their in-person interview. From there, you can interview either in-person or over the phone or video call or simply decide based on their profile.
Services begin
We do our best to keep things simple and find the perfect match for your loved one on our first time around and are encouraged by how often this happens. However, if things are not quite clicking, our Client Managers will take your feedback and go back to the drawing board for a more fitting solution. Above and beyond is the expectation, not the exception, with peace of mind as the ultimate outcome.
Find the perfect private duty nurse today
Our Private Duty Nurses
In certain situations, extended supervision by a private care nurse is essential. Private duty nurses bring a higher level of medical expertise, making them uniquely qualified to handle complex cases.
With advanced training in patient care, they can manage medical devices like catheters, feeding tubes, or ventilators, and respond quickly to emergencies. For example, a nurse working with a cardiac patient might recognize the early signs of heart failure and take immediate action.
Regardless of the circumstance, we will work with you and their doctors to ensure that your loved one is properly cared for. LifeWorx has private duty nurses available in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, and Florida. Many are even licensed in multiple states. And all are professionals in clinical care and ready to attend to a client’s every need, while bringing a warm, empathetic presence into your loved one’s home.
The LifeWorx Difference
Our mission is to bring comfort, independence, and joy back into your loved one’s life. Our commitment to quality begins with our CHAP accreditation and state licensing, ensuring we meet the highest industry standards for safety and care.
Unlike corporate or franchised agencies, LifeWorx is privately owned and operated, which grants us the opportunity to work closely with clients and their families to address their unique circumstances with a customized plan. Our rates are straightforward and all-inclusive, with no hidden fees or overtime charges.
Anyone can walk into our ground level offices and speak with our team directly. Our in-office team works together to ensure every decision is focused on delivering the best care for your loved one.
Institutional settings tend to have strict routines, but our services are flexible and designed to fit seamlessly into your loved one’s day-to-day life. Whether they need a companion for a morning walk or a nurse to manage post-surgical care, we can adapt to their preferences and needs.
We understand the importance of trust and consistency in home care. Unlike other agencies that shuffle nurses frequently, we prioritize stability by minimizing nurse changes and acting only on feedback from you and your family. This means your loved one benefits from a familiar face and a consistent level of care, making every day just a little bit easier.
I feel so lucky that my mother is being taken care of by aides from LifeWorx.
LifeWorx has been indispensable for me and my sisters in helping to find excellent caregivers for our 90-year-old mom.
LifeWorx has been a fantastic resource in caring for my 94-year-old mother with live-in help. My mom was matched with a woman who is qualified, caring, knowledgeable, and is attentive to my mother’s every need.
When I contacted LifeWorx, I got an immediate response. My mother was quickly matched with a companion and we were set up with an interview. I thought it would be quick and formal, but I…
The LifeWorx team worked with us to match the perfect companion to our family. We worked with companions extensively over the last three years and I would rate this experience as among our best, we…
This agency has been an absolute lifesaver. We needed live-in care for our difficult elderly parent and LifeWorx has found us aides who are exceptional, who go above and beyond to problem-solve, and who have…
We needed to hire 24-hour assistance for my 94-year-old father in law who is living in an assisted living environment but closer supervision was required after repeated falls.
The team at LifeWorx are just incredible! Our family has been SO lucky to have the most caring compassionate, patient and well trained aides working with our elderly parents. Would recommend them to anyone who…
Whether you need part time assistance or full time care for a loved one, we highly recommend LifeWorx. The peace of mind they provide is priceless.
We have the utmost confidence in everyone from LifeWorx who walks through his door. The homemakers quickly become “family” and always go the extra mile to make sure that all of my father’s needs are…
Our Values
Trust
Our industry-leading vetting process ensures you never have to worry about who is coming into your home. Where other private duty nursing agencies may put restrictions on the level of communication you have with the caregivers, we trust that each person involved has the client’s best interests at heart and will always act accordingly.
Superior Service
What sets LifeWorx apart is our dedication to a superior experience at every touch point. You won’t be shuffled between departments. When you call, your point of contact will handle your needs directly and collaborate internally to ensure an efficient and thorough solution.
Relationships
We understand how tough it can be to juggle caregiving responsibilities while simply wanting to cherish time with your loved one. Our Client Managers work closely with families to ensure a smooth transition to trusted nurses, handling the logistics and coordination with care and expertise. Meanwhile, our nurses go beyond providing support—they build meaningful connections through thoughtful conversations, shared activities, and genuine companionship, bringing comfort and joy to your loved one’s daily life.
Our Locations
New York
New Jersey
Connecticut
Florida
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Frequently Asked Questions
What medical tasks can private duty nurses perform at home?
Private duty nurses provide skilled medical care at home, including medication administration, wound care, vital sign monitoring, and chronic disease management. They can also assist with post-operative care, palliative care, mobility support, and nutritional needs.
How does private duty nursing differ from general in-home care?
In-home care offers non-medical assistance with daily activities such as bathing, meal preparation, and companionship and is provided by caregivers. The main difference is that private duty nursing involves medical expertise, while in-home care focuses on personal and household support.
What conditions or situations typically require private duty nursing?
Private duty nursing is typically needed for clients with complex medical conditions, such as chronic illnesses, post-operative recovery, or neurological conditions. It also supports clients who need wound care, ventilator assistance, or medication management.
What forms of payment does LifeWorx accept?
LifeWorx only accepts Long-Term Care insurance and private pay. Our Long-Term Care Insurance Administrator is available to review your policy and answer questions you might have about initiating claims and receiving reimbursements.
How quickly can you initiate service?
Depending on the needs of the client, we can start services the next day. If the need is very specialized, it may take an additional day or two.
