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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 the...
Home Health Best Practices for COPD - SN Teaching and Care Plan
For the patient with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease COPD, in addition to assessing shortness of breath on M1400, also include these Best Practice assessment strategies:
Home Health Management of Hypertension
High blood pressure is the most common home health diagnosis.
Home Health Management - High blood pressure is called the “silent killer" because it often has no warning signs or symptoms and patients don't realize they have hypertension. The 'silent' nature of the disease only...
Home Health Management: Disaster Preparedness
As part of your home health management planning include disaster preparedness to satisfy JCAHO, CHAP and ACHC compliance.
In the event of a flood, fire, hurricane, tornado, blizzard, wind storm, and any other disaster that affects the delivery of scheduled home health care services,...
2020 PDGM Utilization for Congestive Heart Failure: Home Health Careplan
There are thirty-six (36) different casemix scenarios for cardiac patients under Medicare's Patient-Driven-Groupings- Model (PDGM) payment system that goes into effect January 1, 2020. The casemix is contingent on from where the patient was discharged, her/his functional abilities,...
Medicare Updates Home Health Re-Certification Requirements
Estimation of Duration of Services No Longer Required
Effective April 22, 2019, certifying physicians who sign patients' home health plan of care DO NOT need to estimate how long the patient will continue to need home health care.
Reduce Hospitalizations for Patients on Antibiotics
Antibiotic-Resistant Infections Pose Critical Health Issues & Increases Hospital Admissions
Patients at High Risk for Infection While On Antibiotics
- Cancer patients receiving chemotherapy;
- Patients aged 80 and older;
- Patients living with HIV;
- Patients receiving immunosuppressive...
Electrify Your Home Care Marketing: Get Board-Certified Specialists
Board-certified specialists will double your referrals.
Home Care Marketing...What would be the ideal 'opening dialogue' to have with a potential referral source like a physician or discharge planner? It should go something like this...
