American Nurses Association Releases Newly Revised Scope And Standards Of Practice For Home Health Nurses

Main Category: Nursing / Midwifery
Article Date: 22 Nov 2007 - 13:00 PDT

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ANA's latest publication, Home Health Nursing: Scope and Standards of Practice articulates the essentials of home health nursing at all practice levels and settings.

Home health nursing practice, currently on the rise, focuses on providing quality health care for patients where a patient resides, whether a private home or an assisted living or personal care facility. A specialized area of community health nursing, this multidisciplinary specialty provides the full range of healthcare services through acute, chronic, or terminal illness to patients and their families and other caregivers.

While this book is primarily for practicing nurses, it is also an essential resource for nursing faculty and students, other health care providers, researchers and scholars, and those involved in funding, legal, policy, and regulatory activities.

Press copies for media contacts are available upon request by contacting Francine Bennett at francine.bennett@ana.org. Please include name of publication, organization, reviewer name and address information including phone and email address.

The ANA is the only full-service professional organization representing the interests of the nation's 2.9 million registered nurses through its 54 constituent member nurses associations. The ANA advances the nursing profession by fostering high standards of nursing practice, promoting the rights of nurses in the workplace, projecting a positive and realistic view of nursing, and by lobbying the Congress and regulatory agencies on health care issues affecting nurses and the public.

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