article thumbnail

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. . Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that home healthcare is one of America’s fastest-growing industries, with a projected compound annual growth rate of 5% for 2014–2024, which equals approximately 760,400 new jobs.

article thumbnail

Will the Real Nurse Please Stand Up? 

Daily Nurse

Have you ever heard a nurse pass judgment on a colleague and say that another nurse isn’t a “real nurse”? Have you noticed some nurses looking down on those who choose to be school nurses or work in home health, dialysis, assisted living, medical offices, or ambulatory surgery?

professionals

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

Trending Sources

article thumbnail

Hospice, Home Health Providers ‘Squeezing Turnips’ Competing for Clinical Staff

Hospice News

Amid workforce shortages, hospice and home health providers are often at a disadvantage when it comes to competing with other health care organizations that can have greater financial resources, according to Bill English, president and CEO of Accurate Home Care.

Hospice 274
article thumbnail

Home Healthcare Benefits for Nurses and Patients

Nurse.com

Nurses working in the home healthcare can more easily see the fruits of their labor. Patients are able to demonstrate their progress by completing daily, household tasks all thanks to the hard work and dedication of their home health nurse. Home Healthcare Benefits for Patients. contact hours).

article thumbnail

Leading Nursing Trends for 2023

Nurse.com

The travel nursing industry thrived during the COVID-19 pandemic, as nurses were leaving the bedside due to the stress and difficulties they faced. Although the market for travel nurses has cooled somewhat with the decrease in hospitalizations, travel nurses will continue to be a needed resource.

2023 95
article thumbnail

Mourning Dove Medical CEO Dr. Kaishauna Guidry: Physicians Need a Framework for Understanding Hospice

Hospice News

For example, a patient may be hospice-eligible, but they may come on to home health because that’s all they know about. While they were in home health, nurses would observe them declining clinically, and I would go visit them and talk to them about hospice care or talk to them about our palliative program.

Hospice 246
article thumbnail

On National AIDS and Aging Day, A Veteran Nurse Looks Back: How Nurses Can Transform the Lives of HIV/AIDS Patients Through Empathy

Daily Nurse

At the nonprofit VNS Health , where I worked, our home health nurses were not ones to turn their backs on the communities we served and lived in. There was a great deal of misunderstanding and spreading of harmful misinformation about what HIV/AIDS was.

Nursing 97