May 6-12 each year is National Nurses Week. This year (2019) it begins on a Monday and ends on Sunday. The American Nurses Association theme is 4 Million Reasons to Celebrate. Learn more about Nurses Week and ways to make your celebration special. If your facility or agency is not planning anything special, it’s not to late to get started. Involve local media and write letters or editorials to your local paper. Invite your City Council to make a proclamation or recognition of the nurses in your community. If you are an author willing to give away a copy of your book, or have a nursing product to share, please…
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New IOS APP for Hospice Care Planning from Tina Marrelli
If you’ve worked in home health care or hospice for any length of time, I’m quite sure you’ve heard of and read any one of Tina Marelli’s terrific books for providing quality care to your patients. The Handbook of Home Health Standards; Quality, Documentation and Reimbursement is known to many as THE book for any home health care professional’s library. A new edition was released in 2018. If you’ve experienced a survey from the Dept. of Health you know that care planning must be unique to each patient. Many agencies utilize cookie-cutter check box systems which may or may not be incorporated into their EMR system. These check-box systems are…
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Kindle Countdown Sale for Home Health Book Starts January 31
Anyone interested in learning more about intermittent skilled home healthcare should explore this deal. My book, Exploring the Home Health Care Experience, is available in Kindle format for 99 cents for 7 days only: From 8AM PST January 31, 2019 through 12PM February 7, 2019 (Regular Kindle price is $9.99) It’s a KINDLE COUNTDOWN DEAL https://www.amazon.com/b?ie=UTF8&node=7078878011
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Review: Tina Marrelli Does it Again!
I was thrilled to “meet” Tina Marrelli this past year through emails. She has always inspired me as a home health care nurse and as an author of the best books to guide us through the day-to-day caregiving and documentation. As anyone who has ever experienced home health care knows, the documentation is endless and just might kill you if you let it! Help is always appreciated! Tina has managed to make home health and hospice make sense and encourage nurses to strive to improve their documentation as well as strive to provide the best quality patient-centered care for their home health and hospice patients. A few months back, Tina…
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Review: BioPods Stimsoles Do Help
A few weeks back, I was approached by a company to test and review a product called BioPods Stimsoles. (Disclosure: I received a complimentary pair.) They make an insole to reduce pain and improve function and ability. There’s some solid science behind it and I was game. I have reviewed my fair share of products over the years. Some are great and some, well they weren’t even worth reviewing.To be honest, I have found that Vionic shoes are my main go-to for comfort and stability for their orthotic/alignment correction and fabulous comfort. So I wasn’t in the market for new shoes or inserts, but… I tried them even in an…