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Its not just a case of a little breathing problem. There are 6.3 million children younger than 18 with asthma.1 Asthma rates in children younger than 5 increased more the 160% between 1980 and 1994.2 In 2000, 4.6 million outpatient visits related to asthma involved children.
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A thorough health assessment is necessary for any home care patient, but the assessment of a pediatric asthma patient needs to look at a wide range of issues to make sure the treatment plan is effective, according to experts interviewed by Hospital Home Health.
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This is the first of a two-part LegalEase column that addresses home health agency risk management concerns related to telehealth.
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Question: Will we need to buy new computers in order to run security software that is compliant with the security rule?
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Help from children keeps elderly parents at home; JCAHO re-approved as hospice accrediting body
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Its not unlike studying for an exam. You know that the exam is approaching, and you do some studying to prepare; but its usually at the last minute that you really push yourself to focus on preparation for the exam.
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Everyone makes mistakes; but when mistakes are made routinely by home care nurses gathering information for the Outcomes and Assessment Information Set (OASIS), your agencys bottom line is affected.
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The Association of periOperative Registered Nurses (AORN) in Denver regularly receives questions from members about their counting procedures. Here are some of the most common, with answers from Ramona Conner, RN, MSN, perioperative nursing specialist at AORN.
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A recent study in the New England Journal of Medicine reported a disturbing finding: In one-third of the cases of retained equipment that were studied, surgical teams failed to count equipment before and after the operations.
