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Nurse Be Nimble, Nurse Be Quick

Nurse Keith's Digital Doorway

Let's say you're a nurse like me who worked in home health for the first decade of your career. You've never worked in the hospital, and while you love home health, you've actually been feeling called to finally take the plunge and enter the world of acute care. As professionals, there's always the micro and the macro.

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Your Untapped Reservoirs of Brilliance

Nurse Keith's Digital Doorway

And if your inner life is teeming with depth and insight, your ability to be fully present for your patients' deeper longings and grief will be exponentially strengthened. Those who work in the ICU need to see the brilliance of those who work in home health or education, and vice versa.

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Top Home Health Nurse Documentation Updates for 2022 That Actually Affect Your Paycheck

The Productive Home Health Nurse

To place quantities to all of this text, the number of agencies providing home health care in the United States grew from 8,314 in 2005 to 12,613 in 2013 with Medicare expenditures for home health care services alone nearly doubling from 9.7 billion in 2012. home health spending officially hit $102.2