The Visiting Nurse Associations of America offers the complimentary VNAA Blueprint for Excellence: Pathway to Best Practices to help home healthcare providers improve services.
The blueprint, released in September 2013, includes research- and practice-based resources to promote patient-centered home healthcare. The web-based tool features four initial learning modules — care initiation, clinical conditions, patient engagement and patient safety — covering 10 topics:
• Frontloading
• Pneumonia vaccine
• MD appointment scheduling
• Critical interventions
• Depression
• Patient engagement
• Risk assessment
• Medication reconciliation
• Falls risk assessment
• Exacerbation of condition
Download the VNAA Blueprint for Excellence for use in your own facility.
Note: View our database providing more than 400 reports that link to free downloadable and adaptable tools for use in surgery centers, hospitals and other organizations.
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The blueprint, released in September 2013, includes research- and practice-based resources to promote patient-centered home healthcare. The web-based tool features four initial learning modules — care initiation, clinical conditions, patient engagement and patient safety — covering 10 topics:
• Frontloading
• Pneumonia vaccine
• MD appointment scheduling
• Critical interventions
• Depression
• Patient engagement
• Risk assessment
• Medication reconciliation
• Falls risk assessment
• Exacerbation of condition
Download the VNAA Blueprint for Excellence for use in your own facility.
Note: View our database providing more than 400 reports that link to free downloadable and adaptable tools for use in surgery centers, hospitals and other organizations.
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