Home health care is a wide range of health care services that can be given in your home for an illness or injury. Here are some of home nursing tips by Apnacare.

1. 6 Tips for Home Nursing
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2. 1. Have a good sense of humor.
• You have to learn to
laugh at yourself. This is
a good practice for most
aspects of your life. But
if you take yourself too
seriously, no career will
be enjoyable.
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3. 2. Be open minded.
• In the patient's home, you are
no longer in a controlled
environment like a hospital or
doctor office. You still have to
follow your agency's policies,
safety rules and perform
procedures correctly, but if the
patient requests you enter
their home and take your
shoes off because of religious
reasons, you do.
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4. 3. Learn to modify. Be flexible.
• The day you planned will
change, guaranteed.
There is an accident on
the freeway, now you are
late. The patient has a
doctor's appointment
they forgot to tell you
about and now they
aren't home. Someone
called in sick so now you
have 5 extra visits. If you
can't be flexible, home
care may not be your
bag.
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5. 4.Be prepared.
• If patient has a bed sore
that did not show up on
the hospital discharge
information. Home
nurses should contain
supplies, paperwork,
computer and cell
phone battery chargers,
pens, marketing
flyers.Learn to plot your
visit route.
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6. 5.Have basis computer skills. Be alert
and be safe.
• If you don't have them,
learn them. Many home
health agencies have
already gone to field
staff carrying lap top
computers into the
patient's homes.
• You may be presented
with many new dangers
that you won't see in
the hospital.
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7. 6.Don't be afraid of paperwork.
• If you work for a home
health agency that
performs Medicare
visits,Those agencies that
have laptops for their
field staff have part of this
licked. However the
questions still need to be
asked and documented.
Practice does help speed
up the documentation
process.
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