The Home Health Orientation Manual

Practical, easy-to-use guide for virtually every home health agency's orientation program. Home health agencies will find this handbook a current, consistent, convenient way to ensure that all new staff members receive and understand basic information. Presents the various regulatory and clinical information needed for effective care planning, evaluation, and reimbursement.

Competency in Home Care doesn't just describe the standards of practice... it gives you the resources to meet them. it provides practical, authoritative guidance for: creating effective staff development plans, designing orientation programs that get caregivers up to speed immediately, establishing performance criteria for every position in the home care continuum, and ensuring ongoing competency. Plus you get powerful insights into the growth of modern home care, The role of competency programs in staff recruitment and retention, and how to get it done in any organization, regardless of background, makeup, or affiliation.

Manual of Home Care Nursing Orientation provides a sound, practical, easy-to-use tool for orientation of home health nurses and covers all aspects of home care nursing. Each chapter includes objectives, key concepts, and materials to encourage independent learning, problem solving, and application of learned material to independent practice that can be applied to individual agency polices and forms. This manual will enable home care agencies to have an orientation program that complies with Medicare regulations and Joint Commission accreditation standards. it includes an Instructor's guide to assist them in preparing and implementing an orientation program as well as program material. The manual is updated annually to address new developments in home health care.

Handbook of Home Health Standards, Revised Reprint

Important Notice: The digital edition of this book is missing some of the images or content found in the physical edition. Handbook of Home Health Care, Fifth Edition has been completely revised and updated to provide up-to-date, specific, authoritative guidance for the successful administration and management of home health care agencies. An excellent, comprehensive text, this Handbook addresses detailed legal and legislative issues, case management processes, and state-of-the-art technology.

This Protocol delineates the evidence for using devices for noninvasive patient monitoring of blood pressure, heart rhythms, pulse oximetry, end-tidal carbon dioxide, and respiratory waveforms. These protocols guide clinicians in the appropriate selection of patients for use of the device, application of the device, initial and ongoing monitoring, device removal, and selected aspects of quality control.

Professional reference for Nurses on Home Health Care