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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “""Home Health" "Patient Safety" "Assignment" "Appropriate" "Nurse" "Home Health Agency""”.
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Home Health: The Process of Assigning an Appropriately Trained Skilled Nurse to Provide Safe Patient Care
… project was to improve the process of placing an appropriately trained nurse in the client's home to provide safe, quality care. This project is relevant to nursing because of nursing accountability, patient safety, and lack of education of home health nurses. The population included home health …
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Issues In Patient Information Transmission: Standardizing Home Health Admission
<p>When 84 patients, current and former, complained about lack of information during the intake process within five months period, a uniform "Patient Screening Tool" (Appendix L) was developed to improve the admissions process to this home health agency. Intake staff is responsible for receiving …
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Cross-Training Home Health Clinicians in Advanced Illness Management
<p>This project focused on the cross training of home health clinicians in Advanced Illness Management (AIM), in order to improve patient care. This project allows patients to receive more timely and patient centered care, by reducing delays caused by having separate clinicians for home health and …
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The Advanced Practice Nurse and Patient-Centered Medical Home: Maintaining Patient Focus, Meeting the Institute for Healthcare Improvement Triple Aim Through the Electronic Health Record
… Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH) in 2009, which incentivized providers to use electronic health records (EHR) for meaningful use (MU); the Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH) stems from the Act. Research by the National Council on Quality Assurance (NCQA) shows …
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Home health nurses' view of promoting medication adherence among community-dwelling elderly patients
Home health nurses are key healthcare providers in all communities, and they have valuable insights on issues such as promoting medication-adherence among community-dwelling elderly patients. Evidence shows that poor adherence to prescribed medication (s) leads to negative health outcomes among …
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Effects of Health Promotion on Exercise of Self-care Agency in Independent Older Adults
Nurses have an important role to play in the health of our aging population. The effects of health promotion sessions on exercise of self-care agency in independent older adults was investigated in this study. Dorothea Orem's model of self-care nursing served as the theoretical framework. The …
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Patient Safety Services: Reducing Resident Falls in California’s Senior Living Homes
… which have resulted in higher fall-related healthcare costs and demand for quality end-of-life (EOL) care services. California fall interventions are in a state of infancy to reduce the number of assisted living falls and associated medical care costs in at-risk seniors. OBJECTIVES …
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Optimising the care of patients receiving oral systemic anti-cancer treatments: a mixed methods study
… has increased significantly in recent decades. Patient experience of receiving these treatments is relatively unknown and under-reported. In response to national recommendations and the National Patient Safety alert (2008) regarding the safe care of patients receiving an oral SACT, a local …
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Reducing Clostridium Difficile
… designated for medically ill geriatric patients above 70 years old residing in the West Texas region. A majority of the geriatric patients living with multiple co-morbidities require maximum assistance with activities of daily living and medication management. The geriatric patients will …
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Implementing Change to Decrease the Re-admission Rate for Clients of a Care Transition Program
<p>The clinical nurse leader (CNL) internship project’s purpose is to implement a change to decrease readmission for clients in a care transition program, thereby improving quality of life. This care transition program aids with the transition from hospital to home for adults. The microsystem is …
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Competency Guide For Intrathecal Pump Nurses
<p>There is a strong need for healthcare providers to improve the quality of care, which benefits not only patients but the whole population. Due to the increasing cost of health insurance, society is forced to bear the cost of poor care for patients. The Institute of Medicine (IOM) stunned the …
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Emergency Department Visits and Hospital Admissions for Adult Cancer Patients Post Outpatient Chemotherapy: Does the Oncology Nurse Navigator Make a Difference?
… annually; 35% of this cost is attributable to inpatient hospital stays even though most cancer treatments are given outpatient. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services introduced the Chemotherapy Measure which tracks Emergency Department visits and hospitalization within 30 days of any …
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Childhood obesity prevention in Soweto, South Africa
Childhood obesity is a growing public health concern in many African countries. In South Africa, young children in urban low-income settings have been identified as being particularly at risk of overweight and obesity, while childhood undernutrition also persists. There is a need to develop and …
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The development of integrated palliative care and emergency medical services in South Africa
… of Emergency Medical Services in out-of-hospital patient management has evolved rapidly in recent years to include more intricate and integrated forms of healthcare beyond emergency care. For example, there has recently been recognition of the role Emergency Medical Services play in the provision …
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The development of integrated palliative care and emergency medical services in South Africa
… of Emergency Medical Services in out-of-hospital patient management has evolved rapidly in recent years to include more intricate and integrated forms of healthcare beyond emergency care. For example, there has recently been recognition of the role Emergency Medical Services play in the provision …
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Burn injuries in Zimbabwe: development of guidelines for physiotherapy rehabilitation of musculoskeletal impairments and functional limitations
… and Functional Limitations for Zimbabwe for Patients with Burns” based on the best evidence available. There were three good candidates for use as the source guideline, but ultimately, the Agency for Clinical Innovation (ACI) of New South Wales in Australia guidelines1 was chosen. The …
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Burn injuries in Zimbabwe: development of guidelines for physiotherapy rehabilitation of musculoskeletal impairments and functional limitations
… and Functional Limitations for Zimbabwe for Patients with Burns” based on the best evidence available. There were three good candidates for use as the source guideline, but ultimately, the Agency for Clinical Innovation (ACI) of New South Wales in Australia guidelines1 was chosen. The …
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Factors influencing migrant maternal and infant nutrition in Cape Town, South Africa
Migration is a social determinant of health. The relationships between migration and health are not well understood for the large numbers of migrants in low- and middle-income countries, including South Africa. In particular, nutrition during pregnancy and the first two years of a child’s life …