{"title":"A Clinical Nurse Specialist in Home Healthcare.","authors":"Susan M Hinck","doi":"10.1097/NUR.0000000000000818","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Purpose: </strong>Opportunities and challenges in home healthcare are discussed from the perspective of a gerontological clinical nurse specialist who has served as an expert clinician, administrator, and compliance director of a home health agency in the Midwest United States.</p><p><strong>Description: </strong>Home-based nursing care requires a distinct set of knowledge and skills centered on the home environment and the way the home health patient responds emotionally and physically to become confident and self-sufficient. A Theoretical Framework for Home-Based Professional Nursing Practice is presented identifying the 6 concepts (primacy of home, patient authority, patient self-management, caregivers as collaborators, interprofessional clinical team collaboration, nurse autonomy) that are building blocks to describe the experience of patients in their homes and interactions with providers. The quality of clinical care and documentation influence reimbursement for care and the financial survival of the home health agency.</p><p><strong>Outcome: </strong>Six management priorities both within the administrative office and the clinical teams are highlighted to improve quality of care, promote efficiency, and retain staff.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Exciting opportunities are available for the clinical nurse specialist in home-based care.</p>","PeriodicalId":55249,"journal":{"name":"Clinical Nurse Specialist","volume":"38 3","pages":"131-135"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1000,"publicationDate":"2024-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Clinical Nurse Specialist","FirstCategoryId":"3","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1097/NUR.0000000000000818","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"NURSING","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Purpose: Opportunities and challenges in home healthcare are discussed from the perspective of a gerontological clinical nurse specialist who has served as an expert clinician, administrator, and compliance director of a home health agency in the Midwest United States.
Description: Home-based nursing care requires a distinct set of knowledge and skills centered on the home environment and the way the home health patient responds emotionally and physically to become confident and self-sufficient. A Theoretical Framework for Home-Based Professional Nursing Practice is presented identifying the 6 concepts (primacy of home, patient authority, patient self-management, caregivers as collaborators, interprofessional clinical team collaboration, nurse autonomy) that are building blocks to describe the experience of patients in their homes and interactions with providers. The quality of clinical care and documentation influence reimbursement for care and the financial survival of the home health agency.
Outcome: Six management priorities both within the administrative office and the clinical teams are highlighted to improve quality of care, promote efficiency, and retain staff.
Conclusion: Exciting opportunities are available for the clinical nurse specialist in home-based care.
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The purpose of Clinical Nurse Specialist™: The International Journal for Advanced Nursing Practice is to disseminate outcomes of clinical nurse specialist practice, to foster continued development o fthe clinical nurse specialist role, and to highlight clinical nurse specialist contributions to advancing nursing practice and health policy globally. Objectives of the journal are: 1. Disseminate knowledge about clinical nurse specialist competencies and the education and regulation of practice; 2. Communicate outcomes of clinical nurse specialist practice on quality, safety, and cost of nursing and health services across the continuum of care; 3. Promote evidence-based practice and innovation in the transformation of nursing and health policy for the betterment of the public welfare; 4. Foster intra-professional and interdisciplinary dialogue addressing nursing and health services for specialty populations in diverse care settings adn cultures.
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