Client Teaching Guides for Home Health Care

Client Teaching Guides for Home Health Care
Author: Donna Meyers
Publisher:
Total Pages: 194
Release: 1989
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

This practical book provides the home health nurse with a compendium of teaching guides for the most common medical conditions, procedures, medications, and nursing diagnoses requiring patient education in home care. Each guide is designed to allow for use as a documentation tool as well as a teaching guide.

Client Teaching Guides for Home Health Care

Client Teaching Guides for Home Health Care
Author: Linda H. Gorman
Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Learning
Total Pages: 393
Release: 2008
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 0763749346

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.

Client Teaching Guides for Home Health Care

Client Teaching Guides for Home Health Care
Author: Donna Meyers
Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Learning
Total Pages: 298
Release: 2005-09
Genre: Home nursing
ISBN: 9780763739133

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.

Home Health Care Provider

Home Health Care Provider
Author: Emily Prieto, MBA, LSW
Publisher: Springer Publishing Company
Total Pages: 262
Release: 2008-06-09
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 082612853X

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
Total Pages: 592
Release: 2008
Genre: Medical
ISBN:

"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/

Pocket Guide to Home Health Care

Pocket Guide to Home Health Care
Author: Karen E. Monks
Publisher: Saunders
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2000
Genre: Home care services
ISBN: 9780721685588

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.

Care of the Difficult Patient

Care of the Difficult Patient
Author: Peter James Manos
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 168
Release: 2006
Genre: Nurse and patient
ISBN: 9780415358231

Whether patient problems stem from mental distress and ill health, historic substance abuse, demanding family members or abusive behaviour, difficult patients place extra demands on nurses both personally and professionally. This is a practical guide to dealing with these patients.

Nurse as Educator

Nurse as Educator
Author: Susan Bacorn Bastable
Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Learning
Total Pages: 689
Release: 2008
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0763746436

Designed to teach nurses about the development, motivational, and sociocultural differences that affect teaching and learning, this text combines theoretical and pragmatic content in a balanced, complete style. --from publisher description.