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Mastering BPCI-A for Success

Guideway Care

Surgeons, nurses, physical therapists, and other healthcare professionals must work together to create comprehensive care plans. This leads to coordinated and efficient care delivery. Such collaboration reduces redundancies and ensures that each patient receives the right care at the right time.

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Care Coordination: The Key to Improving Patient Outcomes

Relias

By incorporating care coordination practices such as risk assessment, care planning, care transitions, patient education, patient navigation, telehealth, and home visits, care coordination teams can bring in resources to help patients navigate health concerns that span physical, behavioral, and social risk factors and needs.

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Home Health CoPs Update: New Opportunities for OTs

Relias

Under the new CoPs, if therapy services establish home health eligibility, OT is included in the care plan, and no skilled nursing care is designated, the start of care visit can be done by an OT instead of having to wait for a nurse, PT, or SLP to be available. OTs Can Conduct Medicare Initial Assessment.

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Meet Nancy Colobong Smith, American Nephrology Nurses Association’s President-Elect 2023-24

Minority Nurse

I also am consulted regarding evidence-based practice and care planning. After being an assistant manager for several years, I realized that the parts of my role I enjoyed most were providing education, mentoring, clinical care, and improving systems.

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Understanding Functional Medicine

Minority Nurse

” In terms of the medical culture, Brooke observes, “ The traditional medical model focuses more on acute care and managing symptoms, which can lead to skepticism towards approaches that are perceived as less evidence-based or more time-consuming.”

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Nursing Maneuvers for Shoulder Dystocia

Relias

Every facility should have a detailed shoulder dystocia nursing management and care plan in place to help nurses perform these duties successfully. How do you perform shoulder dystocia maneuvers? There are two main categories of shoulder dystocia maneuvers: primary maneuvers and secondary maneuvers.

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Why Care Coordination Is Important for Home Health and Hospice Agencies

Relias

Comprehensive education for home health staff is vital to boost performance under HHVBP, observed Relias Director of Post-Acute Care Solutions Trish Richardson, MSN, BSBA, RN, NE-BC, CMSRN. Hospices should also be concerned about care coordination. Increased scrutiny in hospices.

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