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The Veterans' Administration (VA) was able to reduce the number of bed days of care by 25% and reduce the number of hospital admissions by 19% with a national home telehealth program implemented in 2003.
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Are the medications safely out of reach of children? Can the family caregiver handle tasks required to care for the patient? Are family members following the wishes of the patient as indicated before they developed dementia? Is the patient safe in the home setting? Is the employee safe in the patient's home?
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One of the most attractive aspects of home health nursing is the constantly changing job no two days are exactly alike. That same diversity also raises issues that hospital-based nurses don't face.
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An ethics service or ethics committee will look different in each home health agency, because the program should be geared to meet the specific needs of the agency.
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The year 2009 will represent a year of change for hospices with new conditions of participation, greater scrutiny of claims, and new requirements for data collection. What is not known is how the economy, along with sociological and political changes, will affect the industry.
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When the home health nurses at Little Rock, AR-based Baptist Health Home Health Network began observing that many of their patients had poorly managed chronic diseases and were not receiving evidence-based care, the network designed a new approach to delivering care for patients with chronic diseases.
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There will be no new National Patient Safety Goals (NPSGs) established in 2009 for implementation in 2010 as The Joint Commission performs an extensive review of the current goals and the process to develop goals.
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Have you stockpiled enough antiviral medication to provide doses for several hundred (or thousand) employees for about 80 days? Does your stockpile include more than one antiviral medication? Can you rotate it so it never expires?
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Antiviral resistance of one strain of influenza has altered this year's strategies for seasonal influenza. It also highlights mutability of the virus and the need for careful pandemic planning, federal health officials say.
