Home Care Nursing Practice: Concepts and Application

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Mosby, 2001 - Medical - 538 pages
Home Care Nursing Practice is a practical text and reference that provides guidelines for nurses managing complex patient care in a home environment. It addresses the basic concepts of home care nursing, common clinical conditions found in the home, patient education, and life span coverage packaged in a comprehensive, consistent format.
  • Includes separate chapters on select clinical diagnoses, such as ventilator-dependent patients, patients with congestive heart failure, patients with AIDS, and patients receiving IV therapy
  • Follows a consistent format in clinical chapters to describe pathophysiology, assessment guidelines, and related equipment, to aid the home care nurse in developing the plan of care.
  • Describes the family role and nursing interventions for caring for families in crisis in a new chapter, Caring for Families in the Home
  • Describes how the home environment may impact a patient's health in a new chapter, Managing Environmental Threats in the Home
  • Provides an overview of holistic and alternative therapeutic practices that may be encountered in the home in a new chapter, Complementary Therapies and Home Care Nursing Practice
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    Contents

    DEVELOPING THE PLAN Teaching Strategies and Tools 109
    3
    Contemporary Home Care Advanced Practice Nurses 30 Implementing Student Learning
    13
    Future Trends 467 Survey of Alternative
    17
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