I was privileged to receive a review copy of the Home Health Aide: Guidelines for Care, Instructor Manual Third Edition, ©2020. I can’t say enough about this manual, I love every aspect of it! The manual is comprehensive and lives up to high standards typically associated with Tina Marrelli. Tina is often referred to as the guru of home health and hospice care. This manual should help you provide the best practice evidence for on-boarding, orientation, ongoing education and evaluations of your home health aides. It offers great suggestions for job descriptions, competencies, compliance, care planning, communication and expectations for safe, effective, quality patient care and outcomes. As the population…
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2019 Day 4 – Nurses Week — Give Aways Begin
I am so thrilled to announce some great Give-Aways from my friend Tina Marrelli. Tina has a new app available for hospice care planning and she’s donating the Red Book Hospice Care Planning App with a 1 year subscription to the app for all of the great add on features such as using pre-written care plans to individualize to your patients. It’s only available now for IOS devices (iPhone and iPad) the Android version is still in the works. The beauty of this app and its add ons is that the care plans are really universal and can be adapted for any nursing field which could be especially useful for…
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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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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…