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| Handbook of Home Health Standards and Documentation Guidelines for Reimbursement, 2nd Edition |  | Author: T. M. Marrelli
Publisher: Mosby-Year Book
Category: Book
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Rating:  9 reviews
Sales Rank: 1,015,862
Media: Paperback
Edition: 2nd
Pages: 392
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Dimensions (in): 7.3 x 4.4 x 0.9
ISBN: 0801676614
Dewey Decimal Number: 362.14021873
EAN: 9780801676611
ASIN: 0801676614
Publication Date: January 1994
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This book provides thorough coverage of everything the nurse needs for quality home care provision and effective documentation, including detailed standards and documentation guidelines for each of 60 clinical problems. A new section on patient, family, and caregiver educational needs is also included.
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 Answers legal questions quickly March 28, 2000
25 out of 25 found this review helpful
Home health regulations have always been lengthy and murky to the average nurse. This small but concise book gets to the bottom line clearly and quickly. Questions such as maximum hours of weekly coverage and homebound requirements are clearly discussed. An essential resource book for team teaching in a home health agency. A great car guide to the nurse making home visits. I have ordered this book 3 or 4 times over the last 10 years of home health nursing experience. Reach for this book first if you are a new home health nurse in a certified agency - you will not regret it.
Quickly settles disputes, answers questions, a "MUST" for all home care nurses & their management teams !!!! April 2, 2006
Eilid Sidhe (North Dartmouth, Massachusetts United States)
18 out of 18 found this review helpful
I have the 4th edition (at this time is the most recent edition in print) and as a psych home care nurse, this little, portable wealth of knowledge has helped me validate to management, as well as to public health and other surveyors, the range in situations that qualify "homebound status" for psychiatric patients. Throughout the book there are samples provided to support a variety of situations that help the nurse better understand, and therefore more accurately report, on each sector of the OASIS forms. Medicare regulations are explained in detail, and I learned information that I had not known in the 14 years I have been doing mental health home care nursing. The manual provides a history and background of homecare, its evolution, provides an overview of documentaion, including the importance of coding, and its significance in home care. Also, valuable tips on improving the nursing visit, setting achievable goals, managing the case, and the guidelines for care for all the home care disciplines, are provided, so the nurse can be knowledgable regarding the roles of the other disciplines. There is a great resource section at the end of the book, and home care definitions, roles, and abbreviations are delineated in this manual as well. All home care codes are listed.
With the often-confusing regulations and data gathering tools out there, at least we on the front lines have this portable manual to help us sort out our assessments and evaluations into the accurate coding and leveling criteria that supports what we do, what we observe, and allows for the appropriate revenue to support the levels of care our patients require. As OASIS data-gathering evolves, newer editions will be needed to keep up with the miriad of changes that will ensue, but at least here is a standard we can all make good use of, and I am willing to bet every nurse, from novice to manager, will find something in this manual that was not known or delineated as well to them in the past.
This manual would also make a wonderful teaching tool for nursing students. They may as well learn early on how intricate the data-gathering tools are in the real working world. Accurate notations on the OASIS forms can either make or break a case, not only regarding reimbursement, but as to whether the levels of care, and variety of disciplines, that you feel are needed, are allowed to provide services to your patient. Hasty and inaccurate translation of evaluations and assessments onto the OASIS forms results in inability to justify to Medicare that the levels of intervention you are requesting are appropriate.
Best training manual for nurses ever written September 10, 2002
Connie Lemon (Illinois)
12 out of 13 found this review helpful
I have always used this handbook to train new home care nurses. It's compact enough to fit into their nursing bag and tote along on admissions. Be sure to order one for each nurse and therapist or they will get into a tug of war over them
Home Health Standards December 30, 2002
smartnurse123 (Slidell, LA United States)
7 out of 10 found this review helpful
A MUST resource guide for all nurses who work in the Home Health industry.
VERY HELPFUL April 2, 2007
R. Villarosa (LB CALI)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
I love this book because, being in the home health industry you have to know what you're charting. If charting is lacking then you will not get the full reimbursement that you are entitled to. Thanks alot.
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