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OT Month Tips: What Should You Do When Your Office Is The Community?

April 26, 2012

As an Occupational Therapist I am often asked to perform ergonomic evaluations for office workers to promote better overall posture, reduce repetitive strain injuries and improve overall functional performance. But what can you do when your office is the community? As a home care healthcare worker, you must to adapt to multiple environments, negotiate various surface heights and care for patients with different degrees of independence.  Here are some tips you can use to protect your body when your “office” can be anywhere. 1.  Take ...

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QI Tip of the Month – Develop an Aim Statement

April 18, 2012

Approach 1. Who? What? When? How Much? When starting an improvement project, teams often craft an aim. They decide what they want to improve, and: For whom? (e.g., patients with heart failure) By how much?  (e.g., reduce ...

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Wednesday Wisdom: Let’s Hear It For Willy Wonka!!!

April 11, 2012

“A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men!” - Willy Wonka I first discovered this quote when I was around eleven years old.  It hung on a teabag tag from my ...

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Recently Released: Updated Beers Criteria for Potentially Inappropriate Medication Use in Older Adults

April 05, 2012

Is your agency using the Beers Criteria to target patients at risk for medication-related problems? If you are, you'll be interested to hear that the American Geriatrics Society (AGS) has released updated criteria: ...

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Wednesday Wisdom: “Are You Experienced?”

March 21, 2012

“Doctor Nurse…Doctor Nurse!“ My patient would greet me at the door, hands out-stretched with tears in his eyes.   I was new to home care, a novice nurse, with a little less than one year ...

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Wednesday Wisdom: Classified….Top Secret…..!!!

February 29, 2012

It can be a dark secret.  Many experiencing it are mortified.  It is coldheartedly joked about by some who don’t experience it. It’s a cause of over 53% of nursing home admissions.  It’s responsible ...

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Hospital to Home: Getting to the Heart of Care Transitions

February 22, 2012

As home care nurses we often enter into the homes and into the lives of our patients during a period of intense crisis.  We are tasked with setting up a plan for recovery from ...

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