Home Care Assessment : Discussion, Assessment Urgency Scale And Rehab Scale

Seniors with breathing issues are not able to take in as much air into their lungs as they did prior to their breathing issues. Further, the air that they do take in is not processed as efficiently. In the end, this means there is less oxygen getting to the cells. Less oxygen means less energy.

Johns Hopkins Home Care Group (JHHCG) established in 1983 is a subsidiary of Johns Hopkins Medicine, one of the nation’s leading health systems. It provides home medical equipment, specialty infusion services, pediatrics at home, home health services, personal care and nursing, hospice care, and pharmacy—specialty and community services. JHHCG provided services all over Maryland and in some portions of northern Virginia and southeast Pennsylvania to pediatrics and adults in the comfort of their living space.

Does being a home health aide require a college or technical degree? Yes yes it does from what i know. how many years of school does it take to be a home health aide? Three days or 75 hours. what are good colleges to attend for a home health aide? Baker college, seminole community college, and northern kentucky university.

Your senior loved one is important and there are many different senior care services available. What do you do, how do you decide what service is best? In short, with all of the other choices in the market, why choose Comfort Keepers?

Managed adult patients with chronic conditions such as diabetes, hypertension, and hyperlipidemia. In collaboration with the physician, develops a treatment plan along with the patients and significant others.

I have use evidence base practice often in homecare. I had a homecare patient who has hypertension and don’t check his blood pressure regular. I explained to him the important of checking blood pressure daily. Evidence based practice shows self-management of blood pressure is a useful tool in monitor hypertension and preventing stroke (McNamar, Versace, Marriott & Dunbar, 2014). I requested the family to buy an electronic blood pressure cuff. I encouraged patient to record blood pressure daily and record. I also instructed patient to take results to next doctor appointment.

I vision myself 5 to ten years from now working with seniors at an assisted living community. I want to be able to help families find the right living environment for their loved ones. There is a lot that goes into consideration when searching for the right assisted living. I was happy to come across an job offer as an executive director at Brookdale Senior Living. Some specific job tasks that appeals to me is that I get to oversee the community staff and making sure that the tasks are being done every day. I will hold the key to making the community that I will be working for a place that senior residents can call home. I have a passion for making people happy, and seeing their smiles is my goal in any job. Some strengths that

Thank you for meeting with me regarding the employment opportunities. I will like to inform you that as of yesterday I accepted a Full time position as a recruiter with Marquis Home Care. They are located at 230 North Main Street Spring Valley NY 10977 and their phone number is 845-363-8140. Should you need further information, please feel free to contact me by phone or email.

Seniors face many health risks, deal with injuries at a greater rate than other demographics, and, according the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, are more likely to be admitted to the hospital when something does happen. Because seniors are at a greater risk for contracting infections in the hospital, it is important that they not remain hospitalized for any longer than they need to be.

This was the second time coming back to the nursing home visit. I was excited that I get to chat with the resident again. My resident was eating breakfast when I walked into the room and she had no idea that I was coming back that day. I got very anxious because she might not want to be bothered, but I was wrong. She was very welcoming and happy that I came back to visit. We had long conversations about her life and new things that came up since the last time we met. I also did an assessment on my resident this time around since I was not able to during our last visit. I explained the whole process to her while doing the assessment and make sure she knows everything that I am doing. Compared to the first visit, I was much more comfortable.

Since there is no one accepted operational definition of frailty, it is impossible to enumerate frail persons in the population. Therefore, prevalence of frailty varies widely depending on its definitions and patient selection. One European

NHHCS stands for National Home and Hospice Care Survey. This survey is designed to gather information on home health and hospice agencies, their services, their patients, and their staff. This survey was first conducted in 1992 and was most recently conducted in 2007. According to the 2007 survey there were 14,500 hospice care and home health care agencies in the United States. Of those agencies 75% only provided home health care, 15% only provided hospice care, and 10% offered both services. The average home health care only agency served 109 patients. The average hospice care agency served 78 patients. A total of 1,036 agencies participated in the 2007. Data was collected on 9,416 current hospice discharges and home health patients

Depression in home-based care: The Role of the Home Health Nurse, Volume 34, Issue7. Pages 360-368, July/August 2016. Written by Carla Groh and Manuel Dumlao. As the title of the article suggest, the author discusses the growing problem of depression in the older homebound adult. The abstract is very clear about what the article is about and provides a detailed description about its contents. In the introduction to the article the author states that the purpose of the article is to help promote better care in the home setting with regards to depression. The author proposed that depression in the homebound patient can very likely be related to the fact that the nurse and healthcare provider are more focused on the physical needs of the patient

The another critical concerning aspect is that the practicability of frailty measurement. Selecting ease in administration scoring (fewer items, no need specialized training), feasible and usable (including less time & no specific equipment), and cultural sensitivity of the frailty assessment tools is mandatory in clinical settings.

Most of the hospital admission are of older people present with fall, immobility, confusion are unable to cope at home. These people should not be dismissed with label as social admission or off leg (Oliver 2008; Kee and Rippingale 2009).