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Fire any manager who invents a new form was one of the written responses to a survey of nurses conducted by Bernard Hodes Group, a human resources company based in New York City.
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There is no magic formula for attracting the best applicants to your agency, but using a combination of marketing tools to reach nurses with news of job openings will help you find the people you want, according to Don Richardson, vice president of administration for the Visiting Nurse Association of Texas in Dallas.
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This is the second installment of a two-part series that looks at telemedicine in home health. This month, tips on funding telemedicine programs are presented.
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Here are some of the organizations that offer grants to fund home health telemedicine projects.
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They still graze in and around your agency, but an increasing number of home health managers are starting to look critically at sacred cows that need to be put out to pasture.
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This periodic column addresses specific questions related to Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) implementation.
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It took about 18 months of hard work, but the staff at Visiting Nurse Association of Southeast Michigan in Oak Park found the solution to the recruitment and retention problem that made the agency look like a revolving door for registered nurses.
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One crucial difference between home care and institutional care is that field staff essentially work without routine, direct supervision. The cost of providing direct supervision for staff as they provide services to home-care patients clearly is prohibitive. Consequently, providers are vulnerable to claims that they failed to adequately supervise staff.
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CMS rolls out its quality initiative; FDA approves new Alzheimers drug; Study shows caregivers often overestimate pain
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