Nurse's Homecare Handbook

The Story

Wide-ranging coverage includes assessment, performing bedside procedures correctly, risk reduction, managing difficult patients, patient teaching, and managing equipment problems. Contents include contributors, foreword, home care as a specialty, bolstering management skills, avoiding legal hazards, promoting safety in the home, caring for patients with special needs, performing diagnostic tests, managing common conditions, performing procedures in the home, detecting danger signs, adapting care and equipment, providing wound care, troubleshooting equipment problems, providing hightech home care, handling special situations in the home, and documenting care. Appendices cover common abbreviations, NANDA Taxonomy I Revised, and special diets. Includes a completed OASlS-B form and an index.