Hospice & Home Care
- Includes full COVID-19 update and ongoing updates throughout the public health emergency
- Includes evidence-based, peer-reviewed, comprehensive policies, procedures, plans, forms and checklists for care provided in the home and inpatient hospice unit
- Meets accrediting body standards (TJC, CHAP, and ACHC), federal OSHA, and the home health and hospice CoPs
- Written by co-author of best selling APIC book Infection Control in Home Care and Hospice and former Joint Commission home care and hospice surveyor
- Includes evidence-based, peer-reviewed, comprehensive policies, procedures, forms and checklists for home care and an inpatient hospice unit
- Addresses problematic patient safety and survey processes, such as Medication Reconciliation, Patient Safety Strategies for High-alert Medication, Look-alike/ Sound-alike Medication, Medication Orders, and ISMP Timeliness of Medication Administration Guidelines
- Meets all accrediting body standards (TJC, CHAP, and ACHC), federal OSHA, and home health and hospice CoPs
- Written by former Joint Commission home care and hospice surveyor
- Translates and adapts principles and practices developed for hospitals to the home care and hospice settings
- Discusses multidrug-resistant organisms and their management in the home
- Offers a comprehensive approach to surveillance of home care-associated infections
- Addresses specific patient care issues and the prevention and control of infections in the home setting
