Hospice and Home Health Nurse Pocket Guide

When you're caring for a hospice or home health patient, you often need the right information in minutes-not after searching through a full textbook.Hospice and Home Health Nurse Pocket Guide: A Point-of-Care Reference for Home-Based Nursing gives you a practical, quick-access clinical resource designed for real visits, on-call situations, admissions, symptom changes, and end-of-life care. Its consistent entry format helps you move quickly from assessment to action while keeping patient safety, documentation, and goals of care in focus. Inside, you'll be able to: - Navigate hospice eligibility, certification, levels of care, OASIS, PDGM, homebound status, and documentation requirements- Quickly review pain control, opioid safety, dyspnea, terminal secretions, agitation, nausea, and other end-of-life symptoms- Assess cardiovascular, respiratory, neurological, renal, endocrine, gastrointestinal, wound, and behavioral concerns- Reference PPS, FAST, Morse Fall Scale, CKD staging, pressure injury staging, INR targets, vital signs, and other quick-reference tables- Strengthen medication reconciliation, infusion therapy, catheter care, fall prevention, caregiver teaching, advance-care planning, and post-death care- Prepare families for active dying, comfort-kit use, bereavement, and when to call hospice versus emergency services- Scan the QR code at the back of the book to access additional audio referencesBuilt around widely used clinical standards and 2026 Medicare hospice and home health guidance, this guide is organized specifically for fast retrieval at the point of care-not lengthy cover-to-cover reading.Keep this pocket guide within reach and make your next home visit more organized, confident, and clinically focused.