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C Struk

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Critical steps for integrating information technology in home care: one agency's experience.

Complying with Medicare PPS mandates that agencies upgrade their information systems to integrate operations, clinical delivery, and billing functions including point-of-care technology. The critical steps of selecting and implementing information systems and components of agency analysis needed prior to employing information technology--are presented in this article. The author uses her agency's experience as a reference point.

Data Interpretation, Statistical↗

Reflections from a point-of-care pilot nurse group experience.

Home care agencies often fail to commit adequate resource time preparing nurses for POC technology. Successful implementations need to incorporate human issues in addition to the technical aspects for POC. This article discusses the experiences and perceptions of nurses who participated in a pilot POC training group. The pilot group and key elements of the training are presented. The results of a focus group present the major POC focus of importance for the nurses.

Attitude of Health Personnel↗

Fur therapy: a home visitation program for children.

Dogs and kids--it's a natural match. One home care agency has started a "fur therapy" home visitation program that helps keep children with special needs at home as they receive the painful and potentially frightening treatment.

Animals↗

The premature infant home intervention program.

The Premature Infant Home Intervention Program, a collaborative effort of the Visiting Nurse Association of Cleveland and Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital of Cleveland, is designed to provide family support and medical surveillance for high-risk premature infants, to ensure post-discharge wellbeing, and improve survival outcome during the first years of life.

Community Health Nursing↗