Home Health Care Provider
Home Health Care Provider

Author: Emily Prieto, MBA, LSW

Publisher: Springer Publishing Company

Published: 2008-06-09

Total Pages: 262

ISBN-13: 082612853X

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This book is designed to foster quality care to home care recipients. It is written for companions, home health aides, and other care givers who deliver non-medical home care. Prieto provides information, tips, and techniques on personal care routines as well as additional responsibilities that are often necessary in this work, including home safety and maintenance, meal planning, errand running, caring for couples, and making use of recreational time. Going beyond standard nurses' aide training manuals, the book focuses on the psycho-social needs of home care recipients, stressing the need to maintain the house as a home and sustaining the recipient's way of life throughout caregiving situations. Prieto stresses interpersonal skills that benefit recipient and caregiver, creating a systematic, easy-to-follow plan for delivering quality service and maintaining, or improving, quality of life.

Home Care
Home Care

Author: Deborah K. Zastocki

Publisher: Saunders

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 468

ISBN-13:

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The new edition of "Home Care" is designed to provide ready-to-use instructions for the patient and family in the home setting and help home care nurses in instructing patients. It provides detailed instruction guides for selfcare by patient and family members which can be photocopied and given to patients as needed. Also aids in developing more effective standardized teaching and documentation.

Mosby's Textbook for the Home Care Aide
Mosby's Textbook for the Home Care Aide

Author: Joan M. Birchenall

Publisher: Elsevier Health Sciences

Published: 2003-01-01

Total Pages: 588

ISBN-13: 9780323016568

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Covering the essential content and procedures a home care aide needs to know, Mosby's Textbook for the Home Care Aide, 3rd Edition prepares you for success in this rapidly growing field. A clear approach makes the book easy to use and understand, featuring hundreds of full-color photographs and drawings along with step-by-step procedures for skills performed by home care aides. Updated and expanded in this edition are chapters on meeting the client's nutritional needs and on getting and keeping a job. Written by home care experts Joan Birchenall and Eileen Streight, this textbook prepares you for the many types of situations you may encounter as a home care aide. Hundreds of full-color photos and drawings depict key ideas and clearly demonstrate procedure steps. Procedures provide step-by-step, easy-to-understand instructions on performing important skills and tasks. UNIQUE! A cast of caregivers, including a supervisor and four home care aides, are highlighted in scenarios that provide realistic examples of the types of situations you are likely to encounter in the home care environment. Guidelines for Observing, Recording, and Reporting (ORR) are highlighted throughout the text, emphasizing the home care aide's responsibilities for observing and documenting the client's condition and care. Key considerations and reminders are presented in color font to emphasize the importance of performing these actions. Objectives and Key Terms in each chapter focus your attention on essential information. Chapter summaries and study questions review the key points in each chapter. Updated/Expanded Meeting the Client's Nutritional Needs chapter includes the new MyPlate food guide and new nutrition guidelines. Updated/Expanded Getting a Job and Keeping It chapter reflects the job prospects and challenges of today, including the realities of moving between states and differences in certification requirements. Updated equipment photos are included. Evolve companion website includes skills competency checklists and an audio glossary.

Heal Local
Heal Local

Author: Dawn Combs

Publisher: New Society Publisher

Published: 2015-06-01

Total Pages: 330

ISBN-13: 155092589X

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The author of Sweet Remedies offers a straightforward, empowering guide to homegrown herbal remedies for illness injuries, and preventative health. Most of us understand the value of eating and buying local. Taking back our food, goods, and services from multinational corporations and sourcing them from small growers, producers, artisans, and entrepreneurs benefits our families, our environment, and our communities. Heal Local argues that “100-mile healthcare” can be equally valuable in terms of how we treat illness and injury and maintain wellness. This innovative guide demonstrates that by harnessing multifaceted whole plants, we can rely on homegrown or regionally produced herbs rather than importing exotics and non-natives. Based on the small apothecary model, author Dawn Combs explains how to: · Maximize the benefits of homegrown first aid, from increased freshness, potency, and effectiveness to community resilience and local economic growth · Make home herbal healthcare less intimidating and more attainable, by focusing on twenty herbs to effectively treat most common injuries and ailments · Implement a local medicine culture safely and sustainably, while protecting and respecting wild plant populations Many herbals overwhelm their readers, presenting a list of hundreds of herbs, each with a different purpose. Heal Local empowers readers by showing that you don’t need to know everything about every herb on the planet to create a complete home apothecary. Anyone can be self-sufficient with their wellness, regardless of their previous knowledge, experience, or available space. Mother Earth News Books for Wiser Living Recommendation “An excellent reflection on integrating the western medicine model and local medicine communities.” —Cheri Dinsmore, RN, BSN, president, Harmony Farm

Essentials of Patient Education
Essentials of Patient Education

Author: Bastable

Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Publishers

Published: 2016-03-29

Total Pages: 588

ISBN-13: 1284104443

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Essentials of Patient Education, Second Edition prepares nurses for their increasing role in patient teaching, health education and health promotion. Highly revised, the Second Edition focuses on the basic principles of teaching and learning by emphasizing the role of the professional nurse in educating patients and families effectively and efficiently in various healthcare settings. The Second Edition explores new topics of motor learning and gender differences in the brain as well as, the ethics of patient education and the legal role of the nurse as mandated by state practice. The text features completely revised chapter content and updated references that provide evidence from research and theoretical foundations which substantiate content throughout the text. -- Provided by publisher.

Home- and Community-Based Services for Older Adults
Home- and Community-Based Services for Older Adults

Author: Keith Anderson

Publisher: Columbia University Press

Published: 2018-05-01

Total Pages: 360

ISBN-13: 0231546998

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As older adults and their families opt out of nursing homes, a range of home and community-based services (HCBS) have risen up to provide care. HCBS span platforms and approaches, from home health care to assisted living to community-based hospice to adult day services. These models are, for most, preferable to nursing homes and allow older adults to “age in place”—live longer in their own homes and communities. Home- and Community-Based Services for Older Adults examines the existing and emerging models of HCBS, including the history, theory, research, policy, and practices across care settings. Emphasizing the multidisciplinary and interprofessional practice approaches used to deliver care, this book is an essential learning tool for students interested in medicine, nursing, social work, allied health professions, case management, health care administration, and gerontology. As the population of older adults grows, the authors ask, how can we best meet the needs of older adults and their families in the most effective, cost-conscious way while honoring their care choices?

24 Essential Inservices for Home Health
24 Essential Inservices for Home Health

Author: HCPro (Firm)

Publisher: Hcpro, a Division of Blr

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781578397778

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Home health aide inservice training is vital to quality patient care and is mandated by your state. How can you be sure you're providing the best training possible without spending hours of preparation time?The solution is here. "24 Essential Inservices for Home Health" includes everything you need to provide 24 complete inservices on the most important topics--at the very low cost of just $6 per lesson.A comprehensive training tool For each topic, you'll receive a comprehensive inservice that can be used as a group lessons or for self-study by individual aides and nurses. Each inservice includes an in-depth lesson plan a post-test to document the training, and a certificate of completion for staff. The companion CD-ROM makes the lessons easy-to-customize All materials are in the manual AND on the included CD-ROM--enabling you to modify the lessons to meet the particular needs of your agency or the requirements of your state. Use the inservices over and over again--just print out the materials from the CD-ROM as necessary You'll get everything you need to provide an information-packed 30-minute inservice on any of the 24 essential topics. If you prefer, add your own agency-specific information, demonstrations, and discussion time to extend the training to 60 minutes or more The best value on the market For about $6 per lesson, you'll receive everything necessary to provide CMS-compliant home health aide education on the following 24 topics: Alzheimer's Disease Basic Nutrition: Guidelines for Balanced Meals and Special Diets Behavior Management Bloodborne Pathogens and Standard Precautions Care of the Skin: Guidelines for Ensuring Skin Integrity Caring for Residents with Dementia Depression and Anxiety Diabetes Elder Abuse and Neglect: Preventing, Recognizing, and Reporting End-of-Life Care Guidelines for Providing Personal Care Heart Disease Incontinence and Constipation Infection Control Guidelines: Standard Precautions & Additional Precautions Lifting and Transferring Malnutrition and Dehydration Mental Illness Oxygen Training Psychosocial Care Range of Motion and Positioning Respiratory Disorders Understanding Pain Vital Signs: Guidelines for Measuring Vital Signs and Weight Seizures and Strokes