Welcome to Home Health Patient Education!
Hello! My name is Jay, and I’m a registered nurse with over 15 years of experience in the home health industry. I’ve worked in various roles, including Visiting Nurse, Quality Assurance, Wound Care Nurse, and Director of Nursing, with both Medicare and private insurance-based home health agencies.
The Problem: Time-Consuming Documentation
During my years in the field, I saw first-hand how challenging and time-consuming quality nursing documentation can be. For Medicare patients, completing thorough OASIS documentation often takes at least an hour per assessment, leaving nurses to work on their notes at home—cutting into personal time and increasing stress.
Even with EMR software, filling out the Comments section of OASIS forms remains a common challenge. Clinical narratives are critical for:
- Improving documentation quality.
- Supporting accurate coding.
- Providing clear goals for patient instructions and education.
Additionally, high staff turnover in home health means documentation needs to be clear enough for new nurses to pick up where others left off. Without good documentation, continuity of care suffers, and the efforts of nurses often go unacknowledged.
The Solution: Home Health Patient Education
I created Home Health Patient Education to support field nurses like you by offering tools to make documentation faster, easier, and more effective. Using self-guided OASIS assessment templates and a library of ready-to-use Nurse Teachings, you can quickly create quality clinical narratives and patient education materials with minimal effort.
Here’s how we can help:
OASIS Assessment Templates
Our OASIS templates generate customized clinical narratives tailored to individual patient needs in just a few clicks. With these templates, you can:
- Complete Start of Care (SOC), Resumption of Care (ROC), Recertification, 60-Day Summaries, Wound Care, and Discharge documentation faster.
- Copy and paste the generated summary into EMR software or paper forms, saving 20–30 minutes per assessment.
Save up to 40 minutes daily if you complete two assessments—giving you back valuable time for yourself or your patients.
Nurse Teachings
Patient education is a key part of home health care, but finding materials that align with skilled nursing notes can be difficult. That’s why we’ve created a library of over 7,500 ready-to-use Nurse Teachings covering:
- Common health conditions.
- Frequently used medications and medication groups.
These teachings can be seamlessly incorporated into your nursing notes and used to educate patients and caregivers, improving patient satisfaction and outcomes.
Why Choose Home Health Patient Education?
- Save Time: Reduce documentation time and free up your schedule.
- Improve Quality: Create thorough, accurate clinical narratives that enhance patient care and ensure compliance.
- Accessible Anywhere: Nurses can access templates and teachings anytime, making it easy to onboard new staff or refresh existing staff knowledge.
- Agency-Wide Access: Subscriptions include access for everyone in your agency, so you won’t need to arrange new training for every hire.
About Us
We’re proud members of the Texas Association for Home Care & Hospice (TAHC&H), a nonprofit trade association supporting home care professionals since 1969.
I hope Home Health Patient Education becomes a valuable resource for my colleagues in the industry, making documentation faster and less stressful while maintaining the highest quality of care.
Ready to Save Time and Improve Your Documentation?
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