Pocket Guide to Home Care Standards: Complete Guidelines for Clinical Practice, Documentation, and Reimbursement

This compact reference helps you obtain maximum reimbursement for patient care. It includes comprehensive, practical information on standards of patient care, quality requirements, and documentation criteria for reimbursement. Part I explains home care essentials, identifies key members of the home care team, and details maintaining quality in home care, resolving legal and ethical issues, conducting a proper home care visit, and thoroughly and accurately documenting care. Part II covers adult, maternal-neonatal, pediatric, and psychiatric disorders and treatments. Each entry features a nursing diagnosis with patient outcomes, previsit checklist, safety requirements, major diagnostic codes, defense of homebound status, skilled nursing services, interdisciplinary actions, discharge plan, documentation requirements, reimbursement reminders, and insurance hints