The services we provide are incredibly diverse and include such activities as conducting public
health nurse home visits for moms and babies, providing medical...
Not exact matches
But if he could live among us for a week — reading the newspapers, watching television, perhaps
visiting a
nursing home» he might begin to wonder whether our preoccupation with
health and long life is not just as much an indulgence.
The most widespread
home -
visiting program in the country today is one that focuses primarily on
health: the
Nurse - Family Partnership, which sends trained
nurses into the
homes of low - income expecting mothers, mostly unmarried teenagers.
It is a
nurse home -
visiting programme designed to improve the
health, well - being and self - sufficiency of young first - time parents and their children.
The
home health nurse visited and told Sherrie Jo she'd need to feed the baby with a bottle, but was happy to help with an SNS when Sherrie Jo asked.
Providing access to
Home Care and Hospice Care local home health / visiting nurses agencies or making referrals to Skilled Nursing Facilities (Nursing Homes), Acute Rehabilitation Facilities or Community Care Ho
Home Care and Hospice Care local
home health / visiting nurses agencies or making referrals to Skilled Nursing Facilities (Nursing Homes), Acute Rehabilitation Facilities or Community Care Ho
home health /
visiting nurses agencies or making referrals to Skilled
Nursing Facilities (
Nursing Homes), Acute Rehabilitation Facilities or Community Care Homes.
Beginning during pregnancy, and until the child is two,
nurses visit moms at
home to educate them on parenting, share resources, and perform
health checks.
Whileparticipation inseveral
home visiting programs is effective at improving children's cognitive and behavioural outcomes (e.g., Early Head Start, The
Nurse Family Partnership and The Infant
Health and Developmental program), few
home visiting programs have been able to significantly improve pregnancy outcomes and reductions in child maltreatment have been found for some models, but not for others.
In the third trial of the
nurse home visitor program,
nurse -
visited, 6 - month - old infants born to mothers with low psychological resources (i.e., maternal IQ, mental
health, and sense of efficacy) displayed fewer aberrant emotional expressions (e.g., low levels of affect and lack of social referencing of mother) associated with child maltreatment.18
Early Maternal Discharge
Home Visits replace some of the recovery time in the hospital with a personal visit in your home by a registered nurse specially trained in maternal child hea
Home Visits replace some of the recovery time in the hospital with a personal
visit in your
home by a registered nurse specially trained in maternal child hea
home by a registered
nurse specially trained in maternal child
health.
When the
health nurse comes to
visit you in the
home, she checks to make sure you don't have bumper pads.»
Parents are referred to the Family
Home Visiting service by child and family
nurses of the Child and Family
Health Service.
All new moms should really have
home visits from a public
health nurse or breastfeeding consultant to ensure that mother and baby are settling in and getting things to work.
The program trains program staff in early childhood, maternal
health, case management, and mental
health programs, as well as Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children or WIC,
nursing, and
home visiting staff.
Intervention: 2
home visits by a professional community
health nurse and phone call from a qualified LC.
Control group women did not receive postnatal
home visits from a midwife or a child
health nurse.
Intervention 1 (n = 3335):
home visiting only (HV)- early
home - based
visiting by a maternal and child
health nurse (MCHN) to women identified at risk of breastfeeding cessation.
The gap would instead fall on hospitals,
nursing homes and rural
health care providers, he said, many of which are unequipped to handle a potential increase in emergency room
visits and are already on the bubble — including facilities like Southampton Hospital, which he said was insolvent.
Graduating family medicine residents have indicated they intend to provide a broader scope of practice than that reported by current family physicians, including for prenatal care, inpatient care,
nursing home care,
home visits, and women's
health procedures, according to a study in the December 8 issue of JAMA, a theme issue on medical education.
According to the National Institutes of
Health, there are approximately 1.5 million osteoporotic fractures in the U.S. each year that lead to half a million hospitalizations, over 800,000 emergency room encounters, more than 2,600,000 physician office
visits, and the placement of nearly 180,000 individuals in
nursing homes.
«The Medicare
home health benefit is the most important piece of our national commitment to helping senior citizens age - in - place,» said Dr. Landers, who also is president and CEO of the Visiting Nurses Association Health
health benefit is the most important piece of our national commitment to helping senior citizens age - in - place,» said Dr. Landers, who also is president and CEO of the
Visiting Nurses Association
Health Health Group.
In response, the
health department led the creation of an evidence - based initiative, B'More for Healthy Babies, that offers extensive support services to mothers and that sends
nurses and counselors on
home visits to low - income families.
Medicare supports
home health services including
visiting nurses and therapy, but according to Steven Landers, MD, MPH, clinical associate professor at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, the current policy should be strengthened to limit fraud, provide consistent services nationally to reduce
health disparities and allow for better care coordination.
Before each school year begins, classroom teachers and the school
nurse from McIlvaine Early Childhood Center
visit the
homes of incoming students to identify potential
health risks to students and talk with parents about how they can help their children be successful in their new classes.
Expand the
Nurse - Family Partnership The
Nurse - Family Partnership program helps improve the educational, economic and
health outcomes of poor children of first - time mothers through
home visits and personal instruction.
PAWS Houston arranges and facilitates personal pet
visits to the hospital, hospice,
nursing home and rehabilitation centers to improve physical and mental
health for the pet owner.
Therapy Dogs are dogs that have been trained to
visit nursing homes, retirement
homes, hospitals, hospice facilities, metal
health facilities, courtrooms, and more.
Hospice Certified
Home Health Aides participate in the team meetings, documents care, patient response, and observations made during hands - on
nursing care when
visiting patients and families during end of life.
Visiting nurses are hired by
home health care agencies to give care to their clients, who are elderly patients in need of
nursing care.
When conducting
home visits, public
health nurses determine clients»
health needs and ensure that they are fulfilled appropriately.
Full time / part time / per diem position for
visiting nurse case manager to join established and rapidly growing
home health care agency...
Visiting Nurse Regional
Home Health Care System • New York 09/2010 — 04/2012 Case Aide / Staffing Coordinator Assisted with the recouping of Medicaid benefits, and client eligibility of benefits.
Will conduct
home visits on behalf of the clinic to provide education and Su Clinica's
health services upon the request of a physician,
nurse, or social worker, or the patient.
Certified
Nursing Assistant — Dignity
Home Health & Hospice, Dover, Delaware — January 2009 — April 2012 • Visited between six and eight patients daily, helping them with activities of daily living • Ensured a safe, clean environment to promote health and healing • Supported registered nurses as necessary • Followed care plans carefully, taking vitals and performing duties as outlined • Maintained detailed and accurate records of all activities and communicated information to RNs and other staff m
Health & Hospice, Dover, Delaware — January 2009 — April 2012 •
Visited between six and eight patients daily, helping them with activities of daily living • Ensured a safe, clean environment to promote
health and healing • Supported registered nurses as necessary • Followed care plans carefully, taking vitals and performing duties as outlined • Maintained detailed and accurate records of all activities and communicated information to RNs and other staff m
health and healing • Supported registered
nurses as necessary • Followed care plans carefully, taking vitals and performing duties as outlined • Maintained detailed and accurate records of all activities and communicated information to RNs and other staff members
Education and Training
Nursing Current Grand Canyon University Phoenix, AZ, USA Nursing 2012 Indian River... Home Health Nurse 01/2014 to 12/2015 Visiting Nurses Association Stuart, FL Oasis admission / follow... implemented total patient care through a team nursing process covering 8 - 10 high acuity p
Nursing Current Grand Canyon University Phoenix, AZ, USA
Nursing 2012 Indian River... Home Health Nurse 01/2014 to 12/2015 Visiting Nurses Association Stuart, FL Oasis admission / follow... implemented total patient care through a team nursing process covering 8 - 10 high acuity p
Nursing 2012 Indian River...
Home Health Nurse 01/2014 to 12/2015
Visiting Nurses Association Stuart, FL Oasis admission / follow... implemented total patient care through a team
nursing process covering 8 - 10 high acuity p
nursing process covering 8 - 10 high acuity patients
Assigned
Home Health Aides that delivered requested service to
Visiting Nurses Service patients.
Based on the findings, researchers estimate that for cities of a similar size averaging about 3,187 births a year, an annual investment of $ 2.2 million in
nurse home visiting would result in a community
health care cost savings of about $ 7 million in the first two years of a child's life.
For the first time in 2014, the conference focus was expanded to bring together additional providers from primary care, specialty care,
nursing, allied
health fields,
home visiting, child care and early education, Early Intervention, special education, and other fields.
Maternal reflective functioning: Enhancing parental reflective functioning in a
nursing / mental
health home visiting program
On the first
home visits, NFN
nurses conduct mother and child
health and developmental assessments and screen for co-occurring risk factors including maternal depression, everyday stress and domestic violence.
▶ A long - term
nurse home visiting programme embedded in a universal child and family
health service system can improve family, maternal and child development outcomes.
The effectiveness of this model of sustained
nurse home visiting for families from immigrant communities, the impact of
nurse home visiting when delivered as a component within a comprehensive child and family
health and development service system, 10 11 and the efficacy for older, multiparous compared with teenage first - time mothers, remains largely unexplored.
The «right@
home» sustained
nurse home visiting trial is a research collaboration between the Australian Research Alliance for Children and Youth (ARACY); the Translational Research and Social Innovation (TReSI) Group at Western Sydney University; and the Centre for Community Child
Health (CCCH), which is a department of the Royal Children's Hospital and a research group of Murdoch Childrens Research Institute.
▶ A randomised trial was conducted of an Australian
nurse home -
visiting intervention to child - age 2 years delivered within a universal maternal child and family
health service.
Families experiencing the most adversity are often the least able to access
health resources and support services.13 To address the need for better reach, sustained
nurse home visiting (SNHV) has become increasingly popular as a model of service delivery to improve outcomes for these families.14 Internationally, the best known SNHV programme is the US Nurse - Family Partnership (NFP), also known as Family Nurse Partnership (FNP) in th
nurse home visiting (SNHV) has become increasingly popular as a model of service delivery to improve outcomes for these families.14 Internationally, the best known SNHV programme is the US
Nurse - Family Partnership (NFP), also known as Family Nurse Partnership (FNP) in th
Nurse - Family Partnership (NFP), also known as Family
Nurse Partnership (FNP) in th
Nurse Partnership (FNP) in the UK.
Objective To investigate the impact of a long - term
nurse home visiting programme, embedded within a universal child
health system, on the
health, development and well - being of the child, mother and family.
Nurses use an additional two «process» focus modules — video feedback and motivational interviewing strategies — to help parents instigate behavioural change.47
Nurses and the social care practitioners also help parents access early childhood
health services, volunteer
home visiting services and family support services; hold group activities specifically for intervention families; and link women into community activities, as needed.
For some families,
nurse home visiting is augmented by the assistance of NFN's Community
Health Workers who provide language interpretation and / or enhanced cultural competency, assistance with material and community resources, and peer support for the infant's caregivers.
Health care professionals working in pediatric primary care practices (eg, physicians, nurses, and social workers) and in other health and education programs (eg, home visiting nurses, community case managers, and community health workers) must work on the same team to capitalize on each others» capabilities and expertise, increase efficiencies, and improve the health of children and fam
Health care professionals working in pediatric primary care practices (eg, physicians,
nurses, and social workers) and in other
health and education programs (eg, home visiting nurses, community case managers, and community health workers) must work on the same team to capitalize on each others» capabilities and expertise, increase efficiencies, and improve the health of children and fam
health and education programs (eg,
home visiting nurses, community case managers, and community
health workers) must work on the same team to capitalize on each others» capabilities and expertise, increase efficiencies, and improve the health of children and fam
health workers) must work on the same team to capitalize on each others» capabilities and expertise, increase efficiencies, and improve the
health of children and fam
health of children and families.
These programs include the
Nurse Family Partnership, 16,17 Healthy Families America, 18,19 Healthy Start, 20,21 Early Head Start, 22,23 the Comprehensive Child Development Program, 24 — 26 and Early Start.27, 28 All of these programs have been evaluated by using randomized control designs but findings from these trials have been mixed, with some programs showing benefits and others failing to show benefits.29, 30 In a recent review, Howard and Brooks - Gunn30 found that
home -
visiting programs had reported benefits for a number of outcomes, including child abuse, child
health care, quality of
home environment, parenting, parental depression, and childhood cognitive skills.