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St Johns Wort and Drug Interactions; Serum Potassium and Stroke Risk Among Hypertensive Adults; Skin Cancer Prevention and Detection Practices Among Siblings of Patients with Melanoma, TZDs and HF in People with Type 2 Diabetes; Exercise Plus Behavioral Management in Patients with AD; Spironolactone in Resistant HBP
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Study: Caregivers suffer long-term effects of stress; New neuropathic pain guidelines published; Study shows caregivers overestimate pain; RWJF announces funding of leadership centers; CMS rolls out its quality initiative; FDA approves new Alzheimers drug
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There is no magic formula for attracting the best applicants to your agency, but using a combination of marketing tools to reach nurses with news of job openings will help you find the people you want, according to Don Richardson, vice president of administration for the Visiting Nurse Association of Texas in Dallas.
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While there are many positive aspects of home health nursing that help in recruitment, the increasing paperwork required by regulatory and reimbursement organizations is detrimental, says Coleen Conway-Svec, RN, MS, MBA, chief operating officer of the Visiting Nurse Association of Southeast Michigan in Oak Park.
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As a leader of your organization, do you see your marketing director as an influential member of your management team, or is your marketing director someone who merely follows up with physicians and other referral sources? Is your marketing plan synchronized with your daily operations, or is it separate from the overall direction in which your hospice is going?
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They still graze in and around your agency, but an increasing number of home health managers are starting to look critically at sacred cows that need to be put out to pasture. Sacred cows are rituals, beliefs, or guidelines that are routinely followed without anyone really questioning the origin or even the appropriateness of the belief.
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It took about 18 months of hard work, but staff at the Visiting Nurse Association of Southeast Michigan in Oak Park found the solution to a recruitment and retention problem that made the agency look like a revolving door for registered nurses.
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A cornerstone of quality end-of-life care is its attention to matters of the spirit. In recognition of this, hospices have offered spiritual care as one of their core services. Still, clergy in the community who support members of their congregations in times of need are often armed only with good intentions when it comes to care for the dying.
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