Nurses Guide To Home Health Procedures

This easy-to-use reference offers quick and convenient access to the procedures most commonly used in home health care nursing. Every procedure reflects the home perspective, including a Documentation section, which reviews requirements necessary for home health reimbursement and an "instructions for care giver" area. The book's versatile format follows the nursing process, yet is highly usable for actual practice. Coverage of hot topics includes environmental assessment, communication, and hospice procedures. Students and practicing nurses will appreciate the benefits of this useful reference for years to come.

MANUAL OF HOME HEALTH NURSING PROCEDURES provides home health care agencies with a manual of guidelines and standardized nursing procedures performed in the home. This valuable resource includes over 250 procedures, with 45 new in this edition. Packaged with the binder is a CD-ROM containing all procedures, allowing agencies to customize the content to meet their needs. A new Patient Education chapter covers teaching tips and cultural considerations.

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.

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!!!

This handy pocket reference delivers step by step instruction on about 200 of the most commonly performed nursing skills. Each skill is presented according to its place in the nursing process and includes relevant information on required equipment, assessment needed, sample diagnosis, care planning, implementation, expected outcomes, and sample documentation. Coverage includes suggestions on how to alter a procedure based on client, plus home health considerations, cost-cutting tips, and when to delegate a procedure.

This revised pocket guide provides step by step instruction for over 200 common nursing procedures. A two-column format presents specific steps and rationales, with icons that highlight equipment needs, standard precautions and cultural considerations. The text includes nursing diagnosis and documentation and uses samples to identify important data. Illustrations enhance comprehension of specific steps and chapter overviews feature principles and concepts that provide a knowledge base for procedures. New features to this edition include: updated home health content and home specific procedure information; new appendicies; and new skills reflecting current technology and nursing practice.

This handy pocket reference delivers step by step instruction on about 200 of the most commonly performed nursing skills. Each skill is presented according to its place in the nursing process and includes relevant information on required equipment, assessment needed, sample diagnosis, care planning, implementation, expected outcomes, and sample documentation. Coverage includes suggestions on how to alter a procedure based on client, plus home health considerations, cost-cutting tips, and when to delegate a procedure.

This updated Third Edition includes all the new information on medications, nutrition, and NANDA nursing diagnosis. This book is in a quick reference, easy-to-read format makes this a great guide for nursing students to become familiar with the more common conditions and issues they will face with patients on a daily basis.