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Essential program components for perinatal home care.

L Goodwin
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Abstract

Home care will continue to be a rapidly expanding area of health care. This growth will be evident in the perinatal nursing specialty. There are multiple models for delivery of perinatal home services. In each case, consideration needs to be given to licensing and other standards; to operational areas such as staffing, supplies, equipment, and reimbursement; and to quality issues, such as staff development, internal and external customer service, and a continuous quality improvement program. Successful marketing of the services requires recognition that the product is nursing care.

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L Goodwin. 1994. Essential program components for perinatal home care.. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1552-6909.1994.tb01936.x

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