funsunsue

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1. Home Health Organizations

   funsunsue replied to Diane Quinlan's topic in Home Health

   anyone find the correct website yet?

2. wound teaching aids

   funsunsue posted a topic in Home Health

   anyone out there able to provide me with sites or information on patient teaching aides i may obtain over the net, would like from vendors if possible. Johnson and Johnson does provide freee materials, posters and samples. The biggest tip I received ...

3. wound staging

   funsunsue replied to funsunsue's topic in Home Health

   Thanks Becky, I did know most of that. the seminar I went to said to document "unable to stage due to eschar. Im not using mds format in home health, but nursing home and rehab facilities are required to stage regardless. their wording should incl...

4. wound staging

   funsunsue posted a topic in Home Health

   Hello to all! I recently attended a Wound seminar, the speaker did a great job with wound staging. she explained rationale behind not reverse staging- ask me sometime. MY QUESTION IS: Do you nurses stage patients pressure sores on assessment, or if...

5. Decubitus Ulcers

   funsunsue replied to GlHam's topic in Home Health

   log onto www.pesihealthcare.com I just attended one of their seminars on wound care. Worth every penny! the speaker was very informative. lots of information of dressing choices. wound tx and she also wrote a pictorial book on wounds, their tx an...

6. new to home health-do you like it?

   funsunsue replied to Jeanbean's topic in Home Health

   In my area we are hospital employees. New Hampshire. My pay is 17.50 an hour and 20.50 an hour on weekends. mileage is .35 a mile. In eight hours you are supposed to see 6 points. an admission is 2 points and a revisit is one point. so in one d...

7. COPD

   funsunsue replied to csmill's topic in Home Health

   Perhaps you could contact a home health agency in your area and speak with the director of nursing or nurse manager, they keep a list of patients and primary dx. (privacy issue?) I can tell you that if i see 24 patients in one week at least 25% of t...