new to forum and home health

[clear]

hi i'am new to this forum and home health and i really need help the company i work for is new and so i'am and i'am really nervous cause i want to give good care but the DON that hired me quit the day i started and i have no training i left my job of 4 years for this!!!!!!! any help would be greatly appreciated any examples of charting would be great!!!!!
clear

[cassioo]

do you have standard chart forms to start with?

[Old_School]

Hi clear, Welcome to the forums.

[nursinghumor]

Hello Clear,

Did home health for about two years. Loved going into people's houses to do teaching, woundcare, IV therapy, etc.

The paperwork was a bear . . . but the patient contact did wonders for me.

This site might help as well:

National Association for Home Care (NAHC):"Welcome to HomeCare Online the virtual headquarters of the National Association for Home Care (NAHC). Since its inception in 1982, NAHC has remained committed to serving the home care and hospice industry, which provides services to the sick, the disabled, and the terminally ill in the comfort of their homes."
National Association for Home Care
228 7th Street, SE Washington, DC 20003
Phone: 202/547-7424 Fax: 202/547-3540
http://www.nahc.org/

Wish you luck. . . .

Andrew Lopez, RN
http://www.4nursing.com