16 Home Health Nurse Safety Tips
Basic Home Care Industry Safety Guidelines for Field Clinicians
The following is a home health and safety inspection checklist:
- Before making home visits, home health care workers should secure all purses and wallets at the Agency. If you must take a purse or wallet, lock it in...
PDGM Visit Utilization for Cerebrovascular Accident (CVA)
Now that we will have a 30 day billing cycle under Medicare’s Patient Driven Groupings Model (PDGM), there’s no reason not to strive to achieve patient goals within this 30 day window. Many of your patients, with manageable risk factors, should be able to achieve...
34 Work Simplification Strategies for Grooming, Dressing & Bathing
Grooming
- Sit whenever possible to perform grooming, and sit correctly by using good posture.
- Use surfaces that are at a level to perform grooming...
Home Health Forms: Consent for Application of Restraints
Your Agency should have home health forms, policies and procedures regarding the consent and application of restraints.
What Caregivers Should Know
Restraints are methods used by trained caregivers to stop or limit a patient's movement. Restraints may be used without the patient's...
10 Helpful Tips for Wound Care For Home Health
Wound care for home health is a skill every nurse will use. Improperly treated wounds have the potential to cause severe infections and worse. Following are some helpful tips:
Home Health - What Does a Blood Clot in the Leg Feel Like?
What does a blood clot in the leg feel like? Painful, hot, 'crampy' and swollen. Blood clots, no matter where they are located, always need close attention. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), about 1 to 2 per 1,000 people in the United States is...
