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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. . 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.

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Home Healthcare Benefits for Nurses and Patients

Nurse.com

This increase in funds will allow nurses to easily transition from intense hospital environments to individualized home care settings. Since the onset of the pandemic, nurse to patient ratios have drastically increased to dangerous levels. This overload is just one of the many new challenges for nurses presented by the pandemic.

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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.

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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…. WHAT ARE THE TOP HOME HEALTH NURSE DOCUMENTATION UPDATES OF 2022?

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Ep.6: The State of Training in 2022

Home Care Pulse

This week’s episode is a recording of that presentation. So, um, really enjoyed being a visiting home health nurse for years. And then I transitioned to clinical education first at the local level, and then at, at a corporate level for a, uh, national, uh, home health company.

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