Home Health Nursing: Safety, Assessment and Coordination in the Patient's Home

Course Purpose

This course is designed for nursing professionals seeking to enhance their expertise in providing comprehensive care within the home setting. It addresses the unique challenges and responsibilities of home health nursing, distinguishing it from traditional clinical environments, while exploring the full scope of home care services.

Continuing Education Credit Designation

This educational activity is credited for 3 contact hours at completion of the activity.

Overview

This course provides an overview on practicing nursing in the patient's home, including what home health covers and who qualifies, how to assess a home as a care environment, fall risk reduction, medication safety without a pharmacy down the corridor, infection prevention with the supplies actually present, skin integrity, oxygen and equipment safety, and the family caregiver as the person delivering most of the care between visits, using Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and National Library of Medicine sources.

Objectives

Upon completion of this independent study, the learner will be able to:

1. Describe what home care services cover, from personal care and household help to skilled health care delivered at home.
2. State the Medicare definition of homebound and the part-time or intermittent skilled service requirement.
3. Distinguish services covered under home health from those that are excluded, including 24-hour care and homemaker services.
4. Assess a home as a care environment, identifying the hazards named in federal fall-prevention guidance.
5. Quantify fall risk for older adults using current national data and explain why most falls go unreported.
6. Build a fall-reduction plan combining medication review, strength and balance exercise, vision checks and home modification.
7. Reconcile medicines in a home where the list, the bottles and the patient's practice may all disagree.
8. Apply hand hygiene correctly in a home without clinical sinks, including when alcohol-based sanitizer is appropriate.
9. Identify catheter-related infection risk and recognise features suggesting infection beyond the bladder.
10. Deliver pressure injury prevention using repositioning, skin care and pressure-relieving products.
11. Teach home oxygen safety, including the fire risk and the prescription-only nature of oxygen therapy.
12. Support and assess the family caregiver as a member of the care team rather than an unpaid extension of it.

Who this course is for:

Healthcare professionals who want continuing education on Home Health Nursing: Safety, Assessment and Coordination in the Patient's Home.

Course outline

12 sections · finish in any order across devices

1. 1

   Course overview and learning objectives

2. 2

   Introduction

3. 3

   What Home Health Is, and Who Qualifies

4. 4

   Assessing the Home as a Care Environment

5. 5

   Falls: The Risk That Defines Home Nursing

6. 6

   Medication Safety Without a Pharmacy Down the Corridor

7. 7

   Infection Prevention With the Supplies Actually Present

8. 8

   Skin Integrity and Wound Care at Home

9. 9

   Home Oxygen and Equipment Safety

10. 10

    The Family Caregiver and the Coordination Role

11. 11

    Nursing Considerations

12. 12

    Conclusion

This Course Satisfies

Requirement summaries come from our state requirement records. All Users of Cheap CE For Nurses’s website and content are responsible for knowing their state’s license and renewal requirements.

Questions about this course

How many contact hours is Home Health Nursing: Safety, Assessment and Coordination in the Patient's Home?

3 contact hours, credited at completion.

How much does it cost?

$15.00 on its own, or included with All-Access ($29.99 a year, renewing yearly until you cancel).

Can I listen instead of reading?

Yes — every section can be read or heard, on your phone or computer.

When do I get my certificate?

As soon as you finish the course requirements and the evaluation. It stays in your account.

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