An indispensable reference for home health nurses with concise coverage of the broad range of information needed for effective nursing care of patients in the home. Its overview of home health nursing, financial considerations, assessment, fundamentals of home health practice, and care of special patients offers a variety of useful facts, tips, and guidelines for a more successful mursing practice.

The Home Health Aide Pocket Guide is a practical and useful resource for home health aides working in the home care and/or hospice industry. Presented in an easy-to-understand format, this pocket reference includes self-analysis and development tools, information about the most common home health diagnoses, defined disease processes and illnesses, and community resource information. It provides information necessary to understand the field of home health care delivery as well as the home health aide's role and contribution to the care delivery of the patient.

Designed for the home care nurse, this pocket guide is a portable reference for home infusion therapy covering venous access devices and other infusion devices and pumps.

Forlagets beskrivelse: Nursing Health Assessment: A Best Practice Approach reflects a progressive and modern view of nursing practice, featuring innovative elements that facilitate understanding of how best to obtain accurate data from patients. It includes thorough and comprehensive examinations for each specific topic, and also presents strategies for adapting questions and techniques when communication is challenging, the patient's responses are unexpected, or the patient's condition changes over time. Unique features assist with application and analysis, enhancing critical thinking skills and better preparing readers for practice. Each chapter includes a case study that requires critical thinking and diagnostic reasoning to analyze data, document, plan care, and communicate findings. Additional features, ancillary material, and media related to the book build on the in-text cases to reinforce correct elements of subjective and objective data collection and variations necessary for different problems, age groups, and cultures.

Ideal for nurses transitioning into the home health arena, this new resource provides practical, in-depth guidance on Medicare's Conditions of Participation (COP), the Outcome and Assessment Information Set (OASIS), personal safety, ethical and legal concerns, and much more. It also explores how nursing responsibilities in home health care differ from those in acute/long term care. Provides detailed examples on how to document the Medicare Conditions of Participation and how they are implemented. Abundant Field Tipsprovide practical advice to the novice home health care provider. Content is appropriate for nurses and therapists.