Home Health Pocket Guide to Oasis-C, Revised Edition
Home Health Pocket Guide to Oasis-C, Revised Edition

Author: Melinda A. Gaboury

Publisher: Beacon Health, a Division of Blr

Published: 2009-12-08

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781601466747

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Home Health Pocket Guide to OASIS-C: A Reference for Field Staff, Revised Edition Melinda A. Gaboury This handy resource puts all the critical, need-to-know information about OASIS-C completion and documentation at your fingertips. Conveniently sized, yet detailed, it offers concise advice to comply with the revisions that go into effect in January. This pocket guide delivers step-by-step instruction and details on this major overhaul to the data set. Save time with an item-by-item breakdown of OASIS-C Learn how it affects payment and outcomes Gain confidence from detailed instruction Ease the burden of OASIS, strengthen your supporting documentation, and get proper payment

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.

Patient Safety and Quality
Patient Safety and Quality

Author: Ronda Hughes

Publisher: Department of Health and Human Services

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 592

ISBN-13:

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"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/

Client Teaching Guides for Home Health Care
Client Teaching Guides for Home Health Care

Author: Donna Meyers

Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Learning

Published: 2005-09

Total Pages: 298

ISBN-13: 9780763739133

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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.

Handbook of Home Health Standards & Documentation Guidelines for Reimbursement
Handbook of Home Health Standards & Documentation Guidelines for Reimbursement

Author: T. M. Marrelli

Publisher: Mosby Incorporated

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 680

ISBN-13: 9780323012355

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Everything the home care nurse needs to provide quality care and effectively document care based on accepted professional standards is found in this handbook. Offers detailed standards and documentation guidelines for each of more than 60 clinical problems, including ICD-9 (diagnostic) codes, service skills (including the skills of the multidisciplinary health care team), factors justifying homebound status, and more.

Pocket Guide to Home Health Care
Pocket Guide to Home Health Care

Author: Karen E. Monks

Publisher: Saunders

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780721685588

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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.