Welcome to

Compass

Home Nursing Solutions

Elite, Private, In-Home Registered Nurse Services

Navigating you to wellness

with compassion.


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Lakewood Ranch’s Concierge Nurse

Private Duty Home Health Nurse Care

in Manatee County & Sarasota, FL

Self-pay services
provided by a local
Registered Nurse and
wound care specialist at
competitive rates.

Referrals to
supplemental resources
and providers.

Concierge nurse care in Lakewood
Ranch and surrounding towns.

Services

IV Infusion

Health Coaching

Biometric Data Analysis

Nurse Triage On-Call

Wound Management

Patient Education

Video Wellness Calls

Holistic Assessment

Disease Management

Wound VAC

Catheters

Drains/Tubes Management

Tube Feedings

Ostomy Management

Medication Prefills

Tracheostomy Care

Medication Administration

Diagnostic Testing

Medical Device Management

Home Safety Evaluation

Patient Advocacy

Community Services Referrals

Case Management

Medication Management

Assessment Services

Daily Injections

Silver Visit

  • $85
  • Head-to-Toe Assessment
  • Develop a Plan of Care
  • Biometric Data
    Monitoring
  • Disease Education
  • Home Safety Evaluation

Gold Visit

  • $100

Platinum Visit

  • $125

Visits

  • Head-to-Toe Assessment
  • Develop a Plan of Care
  • Biometric Data
    Monitoring
  • Disease Education
  • Home Safety Evaluation


PLUS:

  • Medication
    • Prefills
    • Administration
  • Diagnostic Testing
    Services
  • Video Wellness Calls
  • Access to On-Call Nurse
  • Head-to-Toe Assessment
  • Develop a Plan of Care
  • Biometric Data
    Monitoring
  • Disease Education
  • Home Safety Evaluation



  • Medication
    • Prefills
    • Administration
    • Diagnostic Testing
      Services
  • Video Wellness Calls
  • Access to On-Call Nurse


PLUS:

  • Medical Device Care
    • Management
    • Teaching
    • IV Infusions
  • Wound Care
    • Consultation
    • Treatment
  • Assistance Ordering
    Supplies
  • Collaboration with your
    Providers


For care outside of coverage area, a mileage fee of $1.50/mile may be added.
Care management services offered for $80/hour.

Note: All visits are subject to variations in care based on assessment
findings, client needs/preferences, pricing, and nurse judgment.


Referrals For In-Home Caregivers

  • Respite or 24/7 Care Including:
    • Supervision/Companionship
    • Simple Homemaking Services
    • Meal Preparation
    • Personal Care
    • Errands/Appointments
    • Transportation

We offer a discount for
couples care

Programs

personalized goals, flexible visit schedules, health
coaching, after hours care, & telemonitoring

À La Carte Services

available with visit schedule

Nicole Thibodeau, BS, RN, WCC

Nicole Thibodeau is a Registered Nurse and certified wound care specialist offering private home care services for the local aging population or anyone seeking optimal health. A graduate from the University of Massachusetts with a decade of nursing experience, her diverse background in the nursing field of greater Boston includes home health, acute rehabilitation, long-term memory care, inpatient care (medical-surgical and telemetry), psychiatrics, case management, and pediatric nursing.

Moving to the Sunshine State in 2022 created new opportunities to offer necessary care above and beyond what insurance providers will cover. Nicole is eager to advocate for you and to deliver the in-home, skilled nursing care you have been searching for! You’ll find she is proficient in management of nearly all types of medical devices and various wound dressings. Maintaining a national wound care certification allows consultation on acute and chronic wounds to optimize healing by implementing the most appropriate care.

About the Owner

Nicole/Compass Home Nursing Solutions and I go back a ways. She has nursed/helped me though it all and always has been honest, professional and down right hard nosed on getting me right. For example, she discovered a staple left in me for 3 months, told the Dr and 4 of his nurses could not find it, I came home she found it again, I gave it to the nurses the next time I went in. She's great, she's what right in nursing care and home health administration.


-Steve

Bradenton


She was very fast and professional and I totally recommended for others.


-Gerald

Bradenton


We have been pleased with Nicole from Compass Home Nursing Solutions for our home healthcare. Her professionalism, care, concern, and explanations have been a blessing to us. Her attention to detail is exceptional, from phone calls to schedule appointments, to arriving on time, to answering all our questions. She has made us feel at ease knowing our needs were being addressed. I would recommend her to anyone looking for home health care. You will certainly benefit from using Compas Home Nursing Solutions.


-Sandy

West Bradenton


You cannot do better than
Nicole for professional in-
home nursing care. I recently
used her service to help with
wound care. The results were
amazing, and she even
trained my husband to care
for the site between her visits.
Without her help, I wouldn't
have healed as rapidly as I
did. What I most appreciate
is that she communicates. I
echo the other comments
regarding appointments and
punctuality. It's always a
pleasure to have Nicole in
our home. You can trust her
to bring joy, comfort, and
expertise.


-Karen

  • Bradenton

My husband and I have nothing but praise for Nicole as her work was very professional and thorough. I needed her when my Foley catheter had a problem while we were in Florida. She came right away and took care of it along with looking over my recurring bed sores. We will certainly be using her nursing service when we are in Florida


-Isabelle

Bradenton


I was extremely depressed about my health situation and I was lucky enough to have Nicole to get me through the hardest times when I was losing faith in my surgery, my doctor and myself. She is a great nurse and my friend.


-Paul

  • Parrish

My 6 year old daughter had an
accident at the bmx track which
called for stitches. When Nicole
saw her several days later she
inspected them and brought to
my attention that they needed to
be removed. I had no idea what I
was going to do, Nicole said no
worries its what I do. She did
such an amazing job and was
very professional, sterile,
compassionate and caring that
my daughter wasn't scared or
worried. Her chin looks amazing
and is healing wonderfully. Nicole
is not just a wonderful nurse but
a wonderful person in general
and I recommend her for your
nursing needs.


-Stacey

  • Myakka City

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Why Choose Compass?

Why choose us:

  • We aren’t a franchise; we work for you and with you.
  • You are the boss. It’s your health goals we are hired to meet.
  • We’re personal, real, and honest.
  • No pricy contracts, no up-front costs. Pay as you go.
  • We can meet the needs your current home health agency or insurance
    doesn’t cover.
  • We aim to be your local advocate and support when family is far.
  • We offer daily visits and after hours care.


The current healthcare model is failing across our country.

t’s too hard to get quality care.

Compass was established to break free from the fraudulent, greedy,
neglectful system and provide compassionate care everyone deserves.


FAQs

What area does Compass service?

Based out of Lakewood Ranch, FL, Compass services Manatee County
and Sarasota, FL. For distances greater than 10 miles, a fee of $1.50
per mile may be added. This will be disclosed in advance if so.


What insurance do you take?

We do not accept insurances. The biggest reason being, they don’t let
us provide the care you deserve without limitations and restrictions.
Insurances usually do not cover custodial (chronic/long-term) care
needs such as daily care, weekly medication management, ostomy
management, or non-healing wound care. Compass can provide care
within the scope of the nursing practice in Florida and well above its
standard. We often collaborate with your home health agency to
supplement the care that insurances won’t cover.


What forms of payment do you accept?

Cash, Check, Credit Card, Zelle (1% fee), NFC (ApplePay, Google Pay,
etc.), and Venmo. Please note, a 3.5% charge will be added for
payments other than cash, check, or Zelle.


When do I have to pay?

You can pay in advance of the services for a set number of scheduled
upcoming home visits or pay at the time of each service. There are no
contracts or minimum visit requirements.


What if I need a same-day visit or need to be seen on a weekend
or holiday?

For circumstances that require urgent care or last minute adjustments
to the visit schedule, a
charge of up to $30 may be added. This fee
will also be applied if a visit is canceled less than 24 hours in advance
or if the visit takes place on a major holiday or a weekend.

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Why do we do what we do?

Compass was established to provide the compassionate bedside care from long ago,
favoring God’s predetermined, natural intentions and balancing today’s advanced
knowledge and technology.


I like to think Compass Home Nursing Solutions is set apart from any other similar service
because my business is conducted from a zealous desire to get back to the way God
intended life on Earth to be. I believe He gave us everything we need to survive and
thrive. Plants provide us food, medicine, shelter, and clothes. We have drifted so far from
this knowledge and the lifestyle he intended, all in the name of convenience and profit. I
want to encourage others through compassionate nursing care, that all our needs can still
be met: physical, mental, and spiritual when we take our health back into our own hands.


First, let me be clear, there is certainly a time and place for western medicine, after all,
much of it was originally derived from plants and herbs- and even mold! It’s not my goal, or
my place, to advise anyone against prescribed medications, but simply to remind people
that we have more work to do in caring for one’s physical body than just swallowing pills
around the clock. We shouldn’t be doing more to maintain our car than we do our own
‘vehicle’ through life! Let’s become more informed together about achieving true wellness.


Compass was established to break out of the current “sick care” system model that often
puts profit over patients. The system where your insurance now determines what care you
can receive, when, by who, and for how long. The system that waits until we are
diagnosed with a chronic illness before offering us a magic pill to fix us- meanwhile
causing a new symptom- leading to yet another pill to silence that discomfort too. The
system is riddled with fraud and greed, where finding a trustworthy and compassionate
provider is too rare a feat. We need to take our health into our own hands while consulting
specialists about the details. Our healthcare providers aren’t responsible for our health;
they know it, do we?

Compass was established to correct the lie that taking a pill allows us to continue in our
lifestyle choices and never change a thing when in reality, the pill may be a bandaid for a
root cause that goes undiscovered. We shouldn’t be asking for a pill for our problem
before we even know what the problem is. We need to start asking ourselves and our care
providers. “What is the root CAUSE of this problem?” and “How do I treat the CAUSE and
not just mute the symptoms?”


I agree, its easier to blame genetics for our high cholesterol (or fill in the blank) than to
stop eating ultra-processed, genetically-engineered, chemical-riddled, preservative-filled,
toxically-dyed, endocrine-disrupting, carcinogen-contaminated “food” that our body cannot
digest, stores as fat, and causes an inflammatory response, which eventually alters our
immune function. And staying active? Well, who has time for that?


The system is too often fraudulent, profit-driven, and leaving patients neglected, or worse,
harmed by the delay in care, polypharmacy, medication errors, or medical malpractice.
They realized healthy people don’t turn a large profit. Generally speaking, it is no longer
set up to care, but to profit. The sicker we are, the more... well, you get the point.


Did you know:

  • Some providers are incentivized to prescribe specific medications?
  • Vaccines are the biggest money maker of all, and can negatively affect our innate
    immune response?
  • Most home health agencies use an algorithm to calculates the minimum number of
    visits they can offer a patient each month in order to make the largest profit margin
    from the insurance reimbursement?
  • Asthma, allergies, eczema, autoimmune conditions, ADHD, and mental health
    disorders are more prevalent than ever while we have increasingly more vaccines
    and medicines that are supposed to make us healthier?
  • Amish children don’t have a remarkable prevalence of these childhood diagnoses?


When did asking questions or becoming informed become a conspiracy?

If you are a health provider, do you truly put your patient’s needs above profit?

With all our cutting-edge knowledge and technology, why aren’t people healthier than
ever?

Are we stuck in a downward spiral, reliant on the wrong solutions?


Compass Home Nursing Solutions exists to navigate you to physical, mental, and spiritual
wellness-

with compassion.







-Nicole Thibodeau BS, RN, WCC

Owner

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Lakewood Ranch, FL

Monday to Friday

9:00 am to 5:00 pm

and Per Medical Need


Weekends and After Hours

Per Medical Need

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