DebB

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1. Clean, no-touch dressing change in home care

   DebB replied to Ramona's topic in Home Health

   Our agency rarely does sterile dressing changes in a home environment, except for central lines. You should be able to have an agency policy on dressing changes that shows your practice standard. As long as you follow your agency policy you should be...

2. The future of Home Health...?!?!

   DebB replied to Ellen's topic in Home Health

   Ellen, our agency used to have a fair number of LPN's that would see a variety of skilled visits. With OASIS though, we have found that it is taking more RN's to complete all the OASIS visits. We now have overloaded RN visits and not enough skilled v...

3. safety and home health nursing

   DebB replied to schoolnu's topic in Home Health

   There are so many issues relating to safety in Home Care today!! Many of these deal with just the environment we now live in. I think that the Home Care nurse now must consider all parts of the community as potentially dangerous. This is a shame when...