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The challenges of caring for a patient with dementia differ from patient to patient because the symptoms vary greatly between patients. There are, however, ways to communicate and methods to employ that enable patients to retain or enhance abilities and experience less agitation.
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Although the recently announced smallpox vaccination plan doesnt identify home health workers as members of first response teams to receive possible smallpox patients, the home health industry stills needs to pay attention to the issue and prepare to serve a role if needed, says Steven Christianson, DO, MM, medical director of the Visiting Nurse Service of New York in New York City.
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Question: Does the signed acknowledgement of notification of privacy rights have to be a separate form?
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Home care providers have a duty to assess patients for appropriateness for home care prior to admitting them for treatment. Current standards of care require an evaluation of several factors prior to admission.
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The Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services in Baltimore has proposed 11 quality indicator measures for the pilot phase of the Home Health Quality Indicator Initiative, which involves public reporting of quality improvement indicators as of Jan. 1, 2003.
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Montessori-based programming is based upon the work of Maria Montessori, an Italian physician who, in the early 1900s, introduced the concept of enabling children to learn at their own pace with manipulatives and tools that help them understand concrete ideas before moving on to abstract ideas.
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Although there are few health care workers today who administered smallpox vaccines in the earlier eradication effort, the process of administering the vaccine is simple, says Steven Christianson, DO, MM, medical director of the Visiting Nurse Service of New York in New York City.
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A policy on bom threats and known bomb presence from Northwest Community Hospital in Arlington Heights, IL.
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As the reality of smallpox vaccine administration grows nearer, the main question you need to answer is: Who will be offered the vaccine? Emergency department managers at the Medical College of Georgia recently participated in a conference call regarding pre-event smallpox immunizations.
