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How Workplace Violence Impacts Home Health Nurses

Nurse.com

As the demand for home healthcare grows, so does the risk of workplace violence for home health nurses. . Home health risk factors. Home health nurses are often the only caregivers present while delivering home healthcare.

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Hospice, Home Health Nurses Unionize at Oregon’s St. Charles Health System

Hospice News

Nurses at St. Charles Home Health and Hospice in Bend, Oregon, have unionized with the Oregon Nurses Association (ONA) to negotiate for improved working conditions, compensation and other issues. The home health and hospice provider is part of the St.

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Nurse of the Week: Home Health Nurse Julie Lakomiak Donates A Kidney to Someone She’s Never Met

Daily Nurse

Last Wednesday, Julie Lakomiak, a home health nurse from Plainfield, Illinois, donated her kidney to a “non-directed recipient.” This week, she’s our Nurse of the Week. But as a nurse for almost 20 years, she wanted to help someone in need and make others […].

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How To Boost Your Home Health Nursing Orientation For Free

The Productive Home Health Nurse

This is great, you have your home health nursing orientation and preceptor time all next week…. Ever played this “comparison game” with your fellow home health nurse buddies? WHAT DO HOME HEALTH NURSES DO?

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How To Be A Successful Home Health Nurse

The Productive Home Health Nurse

I was sitting in my recliner, with my laptop resting across my legs, thinking to myself “so you wanted to be a home health nurse didja?! …. I was transitioning into home health nursing and by the looks of my situation…. SETTING GOALS AS A HOME HEALTH NURSE.

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5 Tips To Adopt To Actually Being A Successful Home Health Nurse

The Productive Home Health Nurse

We are almost 2 years familiar with COVID, and the amazing hospital nurse is overworked and extremely burnt out! Luckily, they’re realizing the astounding number of other nursing specialties at their disposal. Differences between home health and private duty nurses.

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

The Productive Home Health Nurse

What a year for home health nurse documentation and nurses… Our COVID song continues…. PDGM has taken over home health nurse documentation…. Home health nurse documentation timeframes are on speed….

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Caring for Medically Complex Children Takes a Village

Nurse.com

Nurses have integral roles in emerging healthcare models aimed at meeting the needs of a growing population of medically complex children. One resource is the medical home model of care for medically complex children. Nurses’ Role With Medically Complex Children.

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Home Healthcare Benefits for Nurses and Patients

Nurse.com

The rate of nurses leaving the profession is rapidly increasing. Hospital IQ surveyed 200 nurses and found that 90% are considering leaving the profession — 71% of those nurses reported at least 15 years of experience. Home Healthcare Benefits for Nurses.

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4 Things Killing Your OASIS Assessment and How to Fix Them

The Productive Home Health Nurse

Or if you’re finding it crazy difficult to write your OASIS nursing narrative notes …. that helps more than 1k home health nurses shrink their documentation time and resubmissions while advancing their careers and protecting themselves.

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Why Your OASIS Assessment Nursing Note Sucks and How to Write Them Better

The Productive Home Health Nurse

OASIS nursing note…. Have you been putting off “getting to know” your OASIS nursing notes for the longest time? When you start writing your OASIS nursing narrative note, it’s hard to decide what’s important and what’s not. How To Organize Your OASIS Nursing Note.

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Leading Nursing Trends for 2023

Nurse.com

Nursing is a noble profession that plays a critical role in providing healthcare services to people of all ages and in a variety of settings. But nursing is a field that is continuously evolving, and it’s important to keep up with the latest trends to stay ahead of the curve.

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Hospice, Palliative Care Providers Leverage Education Programs to Attract and Keep Staff

Hospice News

More millennials are enter the health care workforce as more baby boomers retire. That mentality is playing out in relation to nurse residency programs and the clinicians that we’re hiring,” Brennan told Hospice News during the Palliative Care Executive Webinar Series.

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Meet a Champion of Nursing Diversity: Esther Conteh

Minority Nurse

Esther Conteh has enjoyed an extraordinary and varied healthcare and nursing career for over 25 years. She emigrated to New York City from Sierra Leone as a teenager and was inspired by her mother’s work as a midwife back home and decided to pursue a career in healthcare.

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Supporting patient, caregiver and family engagement with technology

AlayaCare

Families have turned away from nursing homes and other institutionalized settings at record rates over the last few years. Instead, they’re choosing home care for their loved ones. It’s far from the only new demand for home care organizations.

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Supporting patient, caregiver and family engagement with technology

AlayaCare

Families have turned away from nursing homes and other institutionalized settings at record rates over the last few years. Instead, they’re choosing home care for their loved ones. It’s far from the only new demand for home care organizations.

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Hospice Care versus Home Health Care

Shining Light Hospice

The foremost similarity between home based care services is that both types of care are provided to the patient in their own home. Home Health is aimed at patients who need additional care to reach maximum improvement after illness or surgery. What is Home Health?

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#Trending: Talk of Technology Evolving in Home Care

AlayaCare

From recalibrating remote care to ensure accurate documentation and tracking online, to introducing new virtual ways to engage clients and families in the circle of care, the entire home care industry is witnessing an expedited pace of technology adoption.

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#Trending: Talk of Technology Evolving in Home Care

AlayaCare

Home care is fast becoming an orchestrated mix of remote monitoring, in-person care , and virtual appointments. Specialists, in turn, can support home health nurses virtually with accurate diagnoses and evaluations for patients with chronic wounds.

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Three Trailblazing Hawaiian Nurses: Part 1 – First Registered Nurse in Hawaii

Minority Nurse

Welcome to part one of Three Trailblazing Hawaiian Nurses blog series – Mabel Isabel Wilcox, First Registered Nurse in Hawaii. . This rich blend is reflective of its nursing history. Mabel Isabel Wilcox 1882-1978 First Registered Nurse in Hawaii.

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How to Become a Travel Nurse and Embark On a New Adventure

Nurse.com

Becoming a travel nurse has plenty of benefits, most notably the recent pay increase sparked by the COVID-19 pandemic and staff shortages around the country. What Is a Travel Nurse? Travel nursing is the same as regular nursing,” she said. Travel Nursing Requirements.

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A Message to the Nurse's Future Self

Nurse Keith's Digital Doorway

So, my nurse friend, it's twenty years in the future, and you have two more decades of nursing under your belt. Next, they remember your kindness, the way you looked at them, fluffed their pillow, started an IV with extra care, or made them more at ease in their own home.

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Defining Nursing Career Success on Your Own Terms

Nurse Keith's Digital Doorway

Every nurse and healthcare professional has the opportunity to define success in their own way. However, how many of us allow our nursing careers to be defined by someone else. Not so with a nursing or healthcare career true north for one nurse is dead wrong for another.

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Ep.6: The State of Training in 2022

Home Care Pulse

Between July 27th and August 19th, 2022, HCP conducted a survey targeting agencies who provide in-home care services. Todd Austin ( 00:00:51 ): I’m the President at Home Care Pulse, Todd Austin. And so I, I transitioned to home care, home health, which I, I loved.

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