Pocket Guide to Home Health Care

The Pocket Guide to Home Health Care offers guidance for nurses and therapists who are interested in transitioning or have just transitioned into the home health arena. It provides practical, in depth information regarding Medicare's Conditions of Participation (COP). Even seasoned nurses have difficulty understanding and using the COP, but this book will be especially useful for novice home health nurses and therapists. The Guide also presents a discussion about the Outcome and Assessment Information Set (OASIS), a set of data items to be required by the Health Care Financing Administration. Personal Safety and Ethical and Legal Aspects specific to home health care are presented. Created from materials the author developed for an orientation program for new home health care workers, a focus of this book is to discuss how responsibilities vary in home health from acute/long term care. A recurring "Field Tip" feature offers advice to the novice home health care provider.* Provides detailed examples on how to document the Medicare Conditions of Participation and how they are implemented. * Abundant Field Tips provide practical advice to the novice home health care provider. * Content is appropriate for nurses and therapists.