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6 Tips for Home Nursing
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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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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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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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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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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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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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