{"title":"Patient education in home care: strategies for success.","authors":"Kathleen Ashton, Marilyn H Oermann","doi":"10.1097/NHH.0000000000000059","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1097/NHH.0000000000000059","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article describes principles for patient education, beginning with assessment of learning needs through evaluation. Strategies for effective teaching in the home care setting are presented, including use of educational resources. </p>","PeriodicalId":77162,"journal":{"name":"Home healthcare nurse","volume":"32 5","pages":"288-94"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1097/NHH.0000000000000059","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"32320002","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Resources for Middle Eastern patients: online resources for culturally and linguistically appropriate services in home healthcare and hospice, Part 3.","authors":"Judith S Young","doi":"10.1097/NHH.0000000000000085","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1097/NHH.0000000000000085","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>As the population of patients for whom English is not their primary language grows, home care and hospice clinicians are challenged to provide culturally respectful and acceptable patient-centered care for cultures and languages unfamiliar to them. This article identifies resources for understanding the culture of Middle Eastern-born patients and appropriate patient education materials in most of the languages spoken by this population. The resources have been made available for free on the Web by healthcare professionals, government agencies, and support organizations from around the world. </p>","PeriodicalId":77162,"journal":{"name":"Home healthcare nurse","volume":"32 5 Suppl","pages":"S28-36"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1097/NHH.0000000000000085","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"32317847","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cultural sensitivity 2014: Home Healthcare Nurse Supplement.","authors":"Marilyn D Harris","doi":"10.1097/NHH.0000000000000074","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1097/NHH.0000000000000074","url":null,"abstract":"This Home Healthcare Nurse supplement is compliments of Abington Memorial Hospital, its Dixon School of Nursing, Abington Health Home Care & Hospice, and Abington Memorial Hospital's Dixon School of Nursing Alumni Association in celebration of the 100th anniversary of Abington Memorial Hospital and the Dixon School of Nursing in May 2014.","PeriodicalId":77162,"journal":{"name":"Home healthcare nurse","volume":"32 5 Suppl","pages":"S3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1097/NHH.0000000000000074","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"32317848","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Care transitions: best practices and evidence-based programs.","authors":"Theresa Dreyer","doi":"10.1097/NHH.0000000000000069","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1097/NHH.0000000000000069","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The Center for Healthcare Research & Transformation (CHRT) sponsors research and public information to promote evidence-based care delivery, improve population health, and expand access to care. Housed at the University of Michigan, CHRT is a nonprofit partnership between U-M and Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan to test the best ideas for improving the effectiveness and efficiency of the health care system. </p>","PeriodicalId":77162,"journal":{"name":"Home healthcare nurse","volume":"32 5","pages":"309-16"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1097/NHH.0000000000000069","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"32320005","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Online resources for culturally and linguistically appropriate services in home healthcare and hospice: resources for Spanish-speaking patients.","authors":"Judith S Young","doi":"10.1097/NHH.0000000000000081","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1097/NHH.0000000000000081","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Home healthcare and hospice clinicians are increasingly working with patients for whom English is not their primary language. Provision of culturally respectful and acceptable patient-centered care includes both an awareness of cultural beliefs that influence the patient's health and also the ability to provide the patient with health information in the language with which he or she is most comfortable. This article identifies resources for understanding the cultural norms of different Spanish-speaking groups as well as materials appropriate for Spanish-speaking patients that healthcare professionals and government agencies from around the world have made available for others to use. </p>","PeriodicalId":77162,"journal":{"name":"Home healthcare nurse","volume":"32 5 Suppl","pages":"S12-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1097/NHH.0000000000000081","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"32316832","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cultural competence: assessment and education resources for home care and hospice clinicians.","authors":"Deborah Hines","doi":"10.1097/NHH.0000000000000080","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1097/NHH.0000000000000080","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Home healthcare and hospice clinicians face many challenges in the complex healthcare system caring for patients and their families in the home environment. One of those challenges is providing culturally competent care for an increasingly diverse population. This article will highlight free, easily accessible, online resources to assist clinicians and organizations to assess organizational and individual cultural competence and provide many resources for cultural competency education programs. </p>","PeriodicalId":77162,"journal":{"name":"Home healthcare nurse","volume":"32 5 Suppl","pages":"S4-11"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1097/NHH.0000000000000080","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"32317850","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Benefit for caregivers of veterans.","authors":"Carol Ann Fausone","doi":"10.1097/NHH.0000000000000062","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1097/NHH.0000000000000062","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":77162,"journal":{"name":"Home healthcare nurse","volume":"32 5","pages":"319"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1097/NHH.0000000000000062","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"32320007","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Decreasing informal caregiver burden with social media.","authors":"Tammi Watkins","doi":"10.1097/NHH.0000000000000058","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1097/NHH.0000000000000058","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In 2008, there were 44 million informal family caregivers and the number is expected to rise in the next decade. Hospice clinicians need to explore ways to decrease the burden of care for these informal caregivers. The use of electronic technology and social media may be a key component in improving support at end of life in the home setting. </p>","PeriodicalId":77162,"journal":{"name":"Home healthcare nurse","volume":"32 5","pages":"304-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1097/NHH.0000000000000058","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"32320004","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Online resources for culturally and linguistically appropriate services for home healthcare and hospice, Part 5: resources for African patients.","authors":"Judith S Young","doi":"10.1097/NHH.0000000000000083","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1097/NHH.0000000000000083","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Providing culturally and linguistically appropriate home healthcare and hospice care to patients who have emigrated from the African continent can be a challenge. This article reviews Web sites that provide introductions to some of the predominant cultures in Africa. Web sites providing patient education material in 13 African languages are also discussed. </p>","PeriodicalId":77162,"journal":{"name":"Home healthcare nurse","volume":"32 5 Suppl","pages":"S48-55"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1097/NHH.0000000000000083","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"32317851","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Hospice crisis management: during short lengths of stay.","authors":"Bonnie Morgan, Margaret Terry","doi":"10.1097/NHH.0000000000000067","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1097/NHH.0000000000000067","url":null,"abstract":"Many have expressed concern about the very short stay of patients in hospice, resulting in the difficulty to provide all the available benefits at end of life. These short-stay patients are a result of their physician’s reluctance to have “the conversation” about endof-life planning. The result of this delay is that patients and families are sometimes unwilling to accept a terminal prognosis and the incentives of the Medicare fee-for-service system (MedPac, 2013). The costs of hospital care during the final years of life are high. According to a 2012 report from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), 5% of the population accounts for nearly 50% of spending (Cohen et al., 2012). A disproportionately large percentage of resources are spent on patient care in the last 2 years of life, much of it unwanted by patients, unnecessary, and ineffectual in prolonging life. A recent study by Joan Teno indicated that although death in hospitals has decreased to 25%, the percentage of people in the ICU in the last month of life increased to 29% in 2009 (Medicare Newsgroup, 2013). In 2011, 10% of all Medicare patients entering hospice had a length of stay (LOS) of 2 to 3 days and 25% of patients had a LOS of 7 days or less regardless of diagnosis (MedPac, 2013). According to MedPac, costs are higher at the beginning and end of care, which, for shortstay patients, includes both of these time frames (MedPac, 2013). Due to the intensity of hospice services, MedPac has made recommendations to At that time he was diagnosed with advanced gall bladder cancer and liver metastasis. Although he was in acute liver failure, with a recent hospitalization for a deep vein thrombosis and pulmonary embolus, he was still hoping for more chemotherapy, although he was too ill to tolerate it. During the hospice admission visit, he","PeriodicalId":77162,"journal":{"name":"Home healthcare nurse","volume":"32 5","pages":"321-2"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1097/NHH.0000000000000067","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"32320009","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}