The role of home nurses as providers of health care has changed and will continue to
change. To guide appropriate decision making and future policy planning, it is important to …

Although secondary data are generally neglected by nurses, they are useful for nurse
researchers, practitioners, educators, administrators, and policy makers. Major sources of …

During the current environment of cost-cutting and restructuring, case management is
viewed as a means of providing comprehensive, coordinated care while reducing costs …

Neighborhood nursing is grounded in the public health nursing mission of promoting healthy
communities by collaborating with consumers where they live, work, and go to school. A pilot …

Home health nurse visit and care coordination time were compared between Medicare
patients enrolled in an health maintenance organization (HMO) and in the traditional …

Background Home healthcare administrators are challenged to provide quality care in an
environment of shrink-ing economic resources." Medicare, Medicaid, and private insurers …

PURPOSE The study reported here examined both the amount and the type of coordination
delivered to home care patients; further, it examined the coordination delivered both during …

American families with elderly members. Pro-grams designed to assist the aged have been
based on an early knowledge of elderly people derived from contact with older patients who …

Purpose The purpose of this pilot study was to determine the frequency of unmet health and
referral needs of family caregivers of clients receiving home healthcare services. The …

This study is a philosophical analysis of the experience of home care nurses. Pivotal to this
study is the idea that nursing caregiving, as a kind of human activity, is the source of …