• For Home Health Nurses

    If you have an interest in home health nursing, make note that I have recently revamped my website, Housecalls-Online.com which has been around for almost a decade now. You will also find some helpful information on my other home health site: HomeHealth101.com I have also started a Forum for home health professionals on Google Groups. It’s just getting started, but there’s always a lot going on in home health care. So step in and start a thread….I’m sure you have something to say about OASIS C….. (UPDATE sorry this never really took off and these groups are gone) UPDATE: Join us on FACEBOOK. Feel free to start a related discussion.…

  • An Updated HomeHealth101.com

    For those of you who may have an interest in home health nursing, I want to let you know that I have competed an update of my website HomeHealth101.com. ©2009 by Kathy Quan RN BSN ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

  • Season of Suppers

    Any home health care nurse or other professional can tell you that for many shut-in seniors their only companion is often a beloved cat or dog. All too often these seniors are barely able to care and feed themselves, much less feed their best friends. Many times they share their own food with their animals because of economic issues. Purchasing and carrying in food for their animals can also present problems for seniors who therefore give up some of their own nutrition to feed their best friends instead of struggling with heavy bags and cans of pet food. Banfield Pet Hospitals for pets have combined forces with Meals on Wheels…

  • Hospice Pioneer Florence Wald Has Died

    The American Nurses Association announced the death of Florence Wald, RN, MSN, FAAN. Wald passed away Saturday, Nov. 8, at her home in Connecticut. She was 91. Florence Wald was a home health nurse, a professor and a dean, and a pioneer in the field of hospice nursing in the U.S. She studied hospice care in London and returned to the U.S. and developed a model for the holistic and humanistic care of the dying that continues to this day to influence hospice care in this country. She taught nurses that they had to understand the concepts and dynamics of death and dying in order to provide quality care to…

  • Medication Reminder System Helps Elderly Stay Independent

    In January, I attended the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. I was really pleased to find some innovative products designed to meet some of the most important health care needs. One such product is called MedSignals. This is a programmable medication delivery system that reminds patients to take their medications and clues them as to how many pills to take at a time. It also has some very smart capabilities to alert caregivers and home health nurses when patients have missed doses. It records data which can be plotted to determine trends. The unit holds a one month supply of most medications and has 4 bins. Additional units can…