Overview
Feature: Offers easy-to-access and easy-to-read format Benefit: Guides users step by step through important home care standards and documentation guidelines Feature: Provides practical tips for effective documentation of diagnoses/clinical conditions commonly treated in the home Benefit: Ensures appropriate reimbursement from third party payors. Feature: Lists ICD-9-CM diagnostic codes in each body system section, along with a complete alphabetical list of all codes included in the book in an appendix. Benefit: Assists in completing CMS billing forms. Feature: Incorporates hospice care and documentation standards Benefit: Providers can create effective hospice documentation. Feature: Provides guidelines based on the most current approved standards of care. Benefit: Ensures the provision of quality care Feature: Includes the most current NANDA-approved nursing diagnoses Benefit: Providers have the most accurate and up-to-date information at their fingertips. Feature: Identifies skilled services. Benefit: Includes services appropriate for the multidisciplinary team to perform. Feature: Offers discharge planning solutions to address specific concerns Benefit: Providers can easily identify the plan of discharge that most effectively meets the patient's needs. Feature: Lists the crucial parts of all standards that specific members of the multidisciplinary team (e.g., the nurse, social worker) must uphold Benefit: Allows the multidisciplinary team to work effectively together to achieve optimum patient outcomes. Feature: Includes updated resources for care and practice Benefit: Directs providers to useful sources to improve patient care and/or enhance their professional practice. Feature: Each set of guidelines includes patient, family, and caregiver education Benefit: Health care providers can supply clients with necessary information for specific problems or concerns. Feature: Communication tips identify quantifiable data Benefit: Assists in providing insurance case managers with information on which to make effective patient care decisions. Feature: Several useful sections: medicare guidelines; home care definitions, roles, and abbreviations; NANDA-approved nursing diagnoses; guidelines for home medial equipment and supplies. Benefit: Ensures the most thorough and complete reference for home health care. Feature: Small trim size and spiral binding Benefit: Convenient for portability and easy access to content. Feature: Includes the most current OASIS C Assessment and Consideration codes and data elements. Benefit: Ensures complete, accurate, and timely completion of documentation for effective reimbursement. Feature: Up-to-date forms and templates Benefit: Illustrate accurate completion of the Point of Care (POC) and Outcome and Assessment Information Set (OASIS-C) Feature: Updated terminology, definitions, and references Benefit: Reflects the current terminology and definitions and most recent resources useful to clinicians and managers in home care.
Full Product Details
Author: Tina M. Marrelli (Health Care Consultant, Boca Grande, FL)
Publisher: Elsevier - Health Sciences Division
Imprint: Mosby
Edition: 5th Revised edition
Dimensions:
Width: 12.70cm
, Height: 2.50cm
, Length: 21.00cm
Weight: 0.567kg
ISBN: 9780323084406
ISBN 10: 0323084400
Pages: 752
Publication Date: 30 June 2011
Audience:
College/higher education
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Tertiary & Higher Education
Format: Spiral bound
Publisher's Status: Out of Print
Availability: In Print
Limited stock is available. It will be ordered for you and shipped pending supplier's limited stock.
Reviews
<p> In summary this publication would benefit educators of nurses, midwives and other healthcare students in helping a student to follow a logical and comprehensive patient assessment, whether of an older adult, a patient with medical or surgical needs, a child or pregnant woman. The student would also see clearly how the inter-disciplinary team work together to provide first class holistic care. Nurse Education in Practice, February 2009
