The Nurse S Guide To Home Health Care

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.

Go ‘back to basics’ with this concise, clear text on the essentials of nursing care. Comprehensively covers all aspects of essential care Puts care into context and relates it to current UK Government policy and targets Shows how to apply theory in practice using diagrams and case studies Uses a ‘reflective’ theme throughout, in line with current teaching practice Explains Clinical Skills in the context of care Includes a companion website (www.pearsoned.co.uk/field) to support learning The book is designed to help the student develop a proactive approach to the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of the care that they give. The invaluable advice can be applied to all branches of nursing and to all environments where patients are nursed, whether in hospital, at home or care homes. Essential reading for nursing students, qualified nurses and all health and social care workers

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 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.

"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/

This sensitively written book offers a wealth of insight and practical advice for nurses in every specialty and setting providing end-of-life care. Nurses will learn how to address patients' spiritual concerns, ensure that physical needs are met, help patients maintain their dignity, and provide emotional support to grieving families. Nurses will also learn how to cope with their own feelings about dying and end-of-life care. Coverage includes stages of dying, nursing interventions for palliative care, pain control, alternative therapies, physical and psychological signs of grieving, and more. Vignette insights from the well-known end-of-life specialist Joy Ufema offer advice on giving compassionate care.

This edition features: 66 new teaching guides (for a total of 193); all updated references and source material; expanded treatment of the integumentary, musculoskeletal, neurological, and respiratory systems; all-new guides on substance abuse, sensory disorders, and pediatric disorders; expanded coverage of psychiatric disorders; six new nursing diagnoses; and many new guides for high-tech home care procedures, such as, IV therapy, the use of inhalers, mini-nebulizers, and ventilators.

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.