inservices

[tx2007, RN]

what inservices would you as a home health nurse want your job to offer you?

[paddler]

IV, KCI wound vacs, occasional stuff that counts for CEUs. THat's all!

[caliotter3]

Kill two birds with one stone by having an inservice to focus on a particular case. Cover the disease processes, specific care, etc. for that particular case, pick out something that might be unique to present. This way you get the nurses on that particular case (make the inservice mandatory for them), to do a case conference on their particular case, and others who attend can learn something new and/or are actually partially oriented to that case. These "case conference" type inservices should be held in addition to regular topics, perhaps every other month.

[KateRN1]

OASIS, OASIS, OASIS, OASIS. Documentation. Documentation. Time management. Documentation. Boundary setting. How to make an effective call to a physician and get what the patient needs. Documentation. And wound care.

[ksreuter]

I think it would be nice to do a pharmacology review for staff nurses. We do a lot of medication management and I think if you selected didn't medication classes etc. and focused on interactions and side effects etc.

What are some requirements for inservices in home health? in WI, nurses don't need anyt CEUs for licensure. Our HHA requires 12 hours per year for all staff. I'm thinking about increasing that requirement for our RNs, what are your thoughts?

[tx2007, RN]

Thanks for all your great ideas!! I had KCI do a wound vac inservice, wound care center came in and did a different inservice and I am also having a company that does provider services come do an inservice. LOVE the documentation suggestions :) Here in texas nurses must have 20 CEU's every 2 years so I like to throw in a few during the inservices when possible. I think requiring CEU's is a good idea to help mandate up to date care.

[Mandy LVN]

We had an inservice yesterday over in home sleep studies. Was pretty interesting. I also like the idea about documentation and time management.

[nurse955]

I'm in agreement with what everyone has said.

The majority of my nursing experience has been in the hospital setting; therefore my top five would be :

1. Medicare regulations and compliance
   
2. Documentation(how is difference from the hospital setting)
   
3. disease process with focus on home care management of the COPD, CHF, DM, HTN patients
   
4. How to write an effective careplan
   
5. Ethics, staff perception or biases in the home care setting and impact on care being delivered.