Hospital Home Health Archives – December 1, 2009
December 1, 2009
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Improve pressure ulcer risk assessment to improve care
An Indiana initiative to reduce pressure ulcers throughout all areas of healthcare has resulted in a reduction of bedsores at more than 160 home health agencies, nursing homes, and hospitals participating in the project. -
Pressure ulcer initiative results show progress
The Indiana Pressure Ulcer Initiative's collaborative effort to share education and tools to improve the risk identification, prevention, and treatment of pressure ulcers included over 160 home health agencies, hospitals, and nursing homes. -
Packets make assessments easy for nurses to perform
Nurses at Sullivan County Community Hospital Home Health and Hospice in Sullivan, IN, don't spend time looking for a copy of the Braden Scale, documentation checklists, pressure ulcer intervention guidelines, or teaching tools they just pick up a pre-packaged envelope and go. -
Keep education fun for aides for successful program
Pressure ulcer education is pretty straightforward for nurses who want up-to-date clinical information that will help them select the best interventions to prevent pressure ulcers and the best treatments to help their patients with ulcers... -
Journal Review: Needlesticks increase with stressful environment
As sicker, more complex patients are increasingly cared for by home health nurses, the risk for needlestick injuries also increases. -
Guided Care Nurses help chronically ill patients
Older patients who are at high risk for health care utilization are staying healthier and out of the hospital thanks to a new primary care enhancement program called "Guided Care." -
Remote monitoring cuts costs for chronically ill
Following the success of a program that provides remote monitoring of chronically ill patients in poverty-stricken rural areas, Roanoke Chowan Community Health Center in Ahoskie, NC, is replicating the program at six other community health centers in North Carolina. -
Health care tops in injuries on the job
Being a nurse's aide or orderly is the most injury-prone job in America. Those aides are four times as likely to be injured on the job as the average worker, and their rate of injury tops freight haulers and handlers, and construction laborers.