Home Health Nursing

Home Health Nursing
Author: Karen E. Monks
Publisher: Elsevier Health Sciences
Total Pages: 500
Release: 2002-10-22
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9780323018654

This unique, spiral-bound handbook is compact, portable, and written with busy home health nurses in mind! Organized by body system, it offers instant advice on assessment and care planning for the disorders home health nurses are likely to encounter. Providing assessment guides for all body systems, the home environment, and the client's psychological status, it includes full care plans for over 50 illnesses and conditions most commonly encountered in the home. Each plan lists nursing diagnoses, short- and long-term expected outcomes, nursing interventions, and client caregiver interventions. Care plans are organized by body systems to allow for quick retrieval of information. Both short-term and long-term outcomes are included in the care plans to aid evaluation of the care provided. Detailed assessment guidelines are provided for all body systems to facilitate complete and comprehensive client examinations. Guidelines for environmental and safety assessments aid in the appraisal and improvement of clients' living conditions. Client and caregiver interventions are outlined in the care plans to promote active client participation in self-care. The convenient pocket size makes transportation and use convenient to home health nurses. Appendices on documentation guidelines, laboratory values, medication administration, home care resources, and standard precautions provide quick access to useful home care information. Related OASIS items are identified in the assessment section, and ICD-9 diagnostic codes in the care plans section assist with proper home care documentation. Visit frequency and duration schedules are suggested within each care plan to assist nurses in evaluating and planning care. NANDA nursing diagnoses are consistent with the latest 2001-2002 nomenclature. An increase in suggested therapy referrals within the care plans and in a new appendix helps nurses identify indicators for specialized services. A fully updated Resources Appendix includes websites for easy access to home health service information.

Public Health Nursing

Public Health Nursing
Author: American Nurses Association
Publisher:
Total Pages: 159
Release: 2014-05-14
Genre: HEALTH & FITNESS
ISBN: 9781558104914

Health care in the U.S. is in the throes of shifting its emphasis from an illness care system to one focused on health promotion and disease prevention. The convergence of multiple economic, political, and social factors including Healthy People 2020, the Obama Administration's National Prevention Strategy, and the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) provide a "road map" for improving the health of the public. Public health nurses should be in the forefront of health care to lead change in all sectors from public to private and local to global. This revised edition of Public Health Nursing: Scope and Standards of Practice looks to the future of public health nursing and provides essential guidance in the form of standards and competencies for generalist and the advanced public health nurse. This is a must-have title for public health nursing practitioners, educators, students, researchers and others directly involved in public health. Employers, insurers, lawyers, regulators, policy makers and stakeholders will find value in referencing this publication.

Home Care Nursing

Home Care Nursing
Author: T. M. Marrelli
Publisher:
Total Pages: 421
Release: 2017
Genre: Home nursing
ISBN: 9781940446745

Tina M. Marrelli's new book, Home Care Nursing: Surviving in an Ever-Changing Care Environment is a practical and comprehensive guidebook written concisely and without jargon or insider acronyms, making the book accessible to anyone whose work is connected to home care nursing services. Designed to provide chapters as stand-alone resources for readers with previous experience seeking updated guidance, Home Care Nursing is also an excellent guide for course or orientation material. Each chapter is packed with practical questions, discussion topics, and additional resources, such as a complete Medicare Benefit Policy for reference. Additionally, offering more than just an overview of the healthcare and home care markets, this book discusses the unique practice setting and environment of home care nursing, the laws regulations, and quality, and how to make the leap into the field, document your home visit, and improve your professional growth and development. -- Résumé de l'éditeur.

Pediatric Home Care for Nurses

Pediatric Home Care for Nurses
Author: Wendy Votroubek
Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Learning
Total Pages: 763
Release: 2010-09-15
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 0763755869

Pediatric Home Care is a practice-based text perfect for either students or for supporting pediatric nurses practicing in a home-care setting. The text includes a variety of nursing information required for this type of care across a large spectrum of physiologic categories and acuity levels. The Third Edition has been completely revised and updated to reflect the most current practice and technology and includes a new focus on evidence based practice.

No Place Like Home

No Place Like Home
Author: Karen Buhler-Wilkerson
Publisher: JHU Press
Total Pages: 328
Release: 2003-03-07
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9780801873188

Includes information on Mary Beard, black nurses, blacks, Boston (Massachusetts), Charleston (South Carolina), homecare, Ladies Benevolent Society, race, nursing salaries, tuberculosis, visiting nurse associations, etc.

Patient Safety and Quality

Patient Safety and Quality
Author: Ronda Hughes
Publisher: Department of Health and Human Services
Total Pages: 592
Release: 2008
Genre: Medical
ISBN:

"Nurses play a vital role in improving the safety and quality of patient car -- not only in the hospital or ambulatory treatment facility, but also of community-based care and the care performed by family members. Nurses need know what proven techniques and interventions they can use to enhance patient outcomes. To address this need, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), with additional funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, has prepared this comprehensive, 1,400-page, handbook for nurses on patient safety and quality -- Patient Safety and Quality: An Evidence-Based Handbook for Nurses. (AHRQ Publication No. 08-0043)." - online AHRQ blurb, http://www.ahrq.gov/qual/nurseshdbk/

Handbook of Home Health Nursing Procedures

Handbook of Home Health Nursing Procedures
Author: Robyn Rice
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2000
Genre: Community health nursing
ISBN: 9780323009119

This handbook provides practicing home health nurses and students in community health nursing courses with a handy, portable, practical guide to nursing procedures commonly carried out in the home. Nurses who practice in this setting must accurately access clients and plan, deliver, and evaluate without the benefit of advice from other nurses of physicians. The handbook provides nurses with expert on-the-spot advice. 84 illustrations.

The Nurse's Guide to Home Health Care

The Nurse's Guide to Home Health Care
Author: Averel D. Carby
Publisher: CreateSpace
Total Pages: 94
Release: 2013-08-11
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9781491293034

This Comprehensive Guide will help you to: Transition to continuous home health care nursing Understand the foundation for home health care Massively improve your home health nursing skills Let me help you to make a smooth transition from facility nursing to home care nursing. Or if you are already a home care nurse, but recognize the need to improve your knowledge and skills in the specialty of continuous home health care, I can help you do just that! Then this training will take you by the hand, and guide you every step of the way! Here's what you get with this training guide: Description and explanation of Continuous Home Health Care, the nurse's training and responsibilities, and current trends within the specialty. Most common nursing procedures performed in the home, with pictures, and introduction to the most common home medical equipment including: Tracheostomy care - how to PEG Tube care - how to Ventilator care - how to Special intravenous infusion system - how to Plus much more!!!