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

The Productive Home Health Nurse

Although many nurses may have been told a vast range of the typical “home health nurse horror stories”, they seem to be persevering, and remembering that negative stories travel faster, longer, and with many more internalized emotions than the more frequent positive and fulfilling nursing experiences of most home health nurses.

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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? Ever played this “comparison game” with your fellow home health nurse buddies?

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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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The #1 Mistake OASIS Home Health Nurses Make During OASIS Assessments

The Productive Home Health Nurse

OASIS HOME HEALTH ASSESSMENT: PAPER OR PLASTIC? As home health nurses we are all different and display some of our differences through our choice for OASIS assessment data collection. ultimately places the CONTROL + SUCCESS of your home health nursing career in YOUR hands! OVERALL PLANNING.

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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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