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CABG (Cardiac Bypass Surgery) Recovery at Home
From Up To Date... The home health care plan for the patient recovering from bypass surgery focuses on
- wound healing,
- managing new and changed medications,
- cardiac rehabilitation & exercise,
- reducing risk factors.
Home Health Aide Supervision...Right & Wrong
11 Screening Activities Before Hiring Home Health Aides
Adapted from the AIG Home Health Edition: The home health aide screening process is one of the most important steps in hiring a home health aide. The following activities can help to assure that the right person is hired.
12 New Mental Status Questions on OASIS-E
Medicare's draft OASIS-E assessment, effective January 2023, expands its data collection on the patient's cognition to include 12 more questions. Medicare has incorporated the Brief Interview for Mental Status (BIMS) for the home health clinician to evaluate cognitive impairment and...
Does Your Home Health Orientation Include These 11 Policies?
Home Health orientation basics include showing new workers how to perform their jobs safely and efficiently. But thriving home health agencies know that it is important to go much further than that. Orientation is the perfect time to begin soft skills training, and to introduce...
OASIS E & PHQ2-9: Identifying a Depressive Disorder
The new OASIS-E Start of Care OASIS assessment has fifteen (15) sections, A - O.
Section D, or section 4 of 15, addresses the patient's mood and presence of depression.
Depression and anxiety are major health issues among...
OASIS E - M1610 Urinary Incontinence/Catheter Presence
The draft version of the new OASIS-E Start of Care OASIS assessment has fifteen (15) sections. Many of the 'old' questions remain - like M1610 Urinary Incontinence/Catheter Presence. This question is now located under Section H 'Bladder & Bowel'.
- A - Administrative Information
- B -...
Teach Patients to Manage Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)
COPD (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease) is a leading cause of death in the United States, affecting 16 million Americans and millions more who don’t know they have it. Home health nurses and therapists encounter patients with COPD every day. In addition to COPD drugs, the...
