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...
Home Health Patient Teaching: Manage Urinary Incontinence
Patient Education for Managing Urinary Incontinence
- Keep a log noting when you have incontinence and when you void deliberately. A pattern or trend may emerge that will help you plan ahead.
Assessment & Careplan for PICC - Peripherally Inserted Central Catheter
A peripherally inserted central catheter (PICC) is used for patients needing venous access for I.V. fluids, long-term antibiotics, chemotherapy, or total parental nutrition (TPN). A PICC is also used for drawing blood.
Work Simplification for OASIS-D M1800 Grooming, M1810/20 Dressing
Stroke rehabilitation includes simplification techniques of work and work tasks, ergonomics and other rehabilitation strategies.
2020 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
Stroke rehabilitation includes simplification techniques of work and work tasks, ergonomics and other rehabilitation strategies.
Grooming
- Sit whenever possible to perform grooming, and sit correctly by using good posture.
- Use surfaces that are at a level to perform grooming...
