Utilization of a Visit-Based Sepsis Assessment to Prevent Hospital Readmissions
Sepsis results in 270,000 deaths annually in the United States. Despite the current healthcare focus on sepsis, there exist few postacute best-practice standards to rapidly identify health changes in home healthcare patients to prevent and reduce hospital readmissions due to sepsis. We systematically examined whether an evidence-based process and intervention triggering home healthcare clinicians to activate a Positive Sepsis Assessment would reduce the likelihood that the patient would be readmitted to the acute care hospital. Over 24 months, we tracked the rate of sepsis readmissions to acute care hospitals through the i...
Source: Home Healthcare Nurse - May 1, 2020 Category: Nursing Tags: Feature Source Type: research
Older Adult Suicides: What You Should Know and What You Can Do
This article will use a case narrative to illustrate life circumstances that may influence suicidal thinking. In addition, risk factors are addressed. Lastly, the article addresses some useful assessment tools to gauge suicide risk among older adult clients and provides resources for home care clinicians. (Source: Home Healthcare Nurse)
Source: Home Healthcare Nurse - May 1, 2020 Category: Nursing Tags: Feature: CE Connection Source Type: research
Celebrating the Year of the Nurse and Midwife
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Source: Home Healthcare Nurse - May 1, 2020 Category: Nursing Tags: EDITORIAL Source Type: research
The Ventilator-Dependent Child: What Every Home Care Nurse Needs to Know
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Source: Home Healthcare Nurse - March 1, 2020 Category: Nursing Tags: CE Connection Source Type: research
Grandpa Is Getting Incubated
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Source: Home Healthcare Nurse - March 1, 2020 Category: Nursing Tags: COMMENTARY Source Type: research
VNAA Launches New Online Best Practice Resource on Worker Safety, Orientation
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Source: Home Healthcare Nurse - March 1, 2020 Category: Nursing Tags: VNAA'S VOICE Source Type: research
Home Cameras to Enhance Caregiver Support
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Source: Home Healthcare Nurse - March 1, 2020 Category: Nursing Tags: CONSULT PRN Source Type: research
A Day in the Life of a Hospice Nurse in Southern California
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Source: Home Healthcare Nurse - March 1, 2020 Category: Nursing Tags: A DAY IN THE LIFE OF... Source Type: research
Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Transmission in the Home
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Source: Home Healthcare Nurse - March 1, 2020 Category: Nursing Tags: INFECTION PREVENTION Source Type: research
Misleading Acetaminophen Liquid Label Could Lead to Overdoses
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Source: Home Healthcare Nurse - March 1, 2020 Category: Nursing Tags: ISMP MEDICATION SAFETY Source Type: research
Treating the Early Intervention Population in Their Natural Environment
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Source: Home Healthcare Nurse - March 1, 2020 Category: Nursing Tags: FOCUS ON THERAPY Source Type: research
Dementia and Music Therapy
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Source: Home Healthcare Nurse - March 1, 2020 Category: Nursing Tags: FOCUS ON GERIATRICS Source Type: research
Beware of Discharge: A Case Exploring the Ethics of Societal Expectations Placed on Families at Hospital Discharge
As the population ages and medical therapies advance, more individuals are living in the community with complex health conditions. These individuals, as well as their clinicians, often assume their family members and friends will be capable of, and willing to, provide the caregiving work necessary to continue living at home. There is an ethical problem in this assumption that unpaid community care will be provided by family or friends. Using the Hunt and Ells Patient-Centered Care Ethics Analysis Model for Rehabilitation (2013), this article explores the ethical considerations involved in the hospital discharge planning of...
Source: Home Healthcare Nurse - March 1, 2020 Category: Nursing Tags: Feature Source Type: research
Home Health Agency Factors Associated With Acute Care Hospitalization and Emergency Department Use
We linked the Medicare Provider Utilization and Payment Data for Home Health and the Home Health Compare data for the year 2016 to identify home healthcare agency (HHA) characteristics associated with acute care hospitalization (ACH) or emergency department (ED) use. The study cohort consisted of 9,800 HHAs. Beta regression was used to examine the association between average age, race/ethnic composition, number of skilled nursing visits, number of therapy visits, percentage of dual eligible patients, HHA ownership, HHA location, Medicare tenure, proportion of patients with a diagnosis of schizophrenia, stroke, diabetes, de...
Source: Home Healthcare Nurse - March 1, 2020 Category: Nursing Tags: Feature Source Type: research
Older Adults' Outcomes and Perceptions After Participating in the HOP-UP-PT Program: A Prospective Descriptive Study
The purpose of this study was to describe self-reported outcomes and perceptions of community-dwelling older adults who participated in a 6-month prevention-focused home care physical therapy program entitled Home-based Older Persons Upstreaming Prevention Physical Therapy (HOP-UP-PT). A 17-question telephone survey was offered 1 to 3 months after program completion to HOP-UP-PT participants who completed a minimum of three visits. Self-reported fall outcomes, healthcare utilization outcomes, perceptions of interventions, and financial perceptions were descriptively analyzed. There were 18 survey respondents (9 male, 9 fem...
Source: Home Healthcare Nurse - March 1, 2020 Category: Nursing Tags: Feature Source Type: research
