Welcome to Home Healthcare Nurse in 2010!! This month introduces our new, enhanced website. We are integrating Journal content, such as articles, columns, clipboards, etc. to help you quickly and (more!!) easily find/search for the information you want. As you know, HHN is the peer-reviewed interdisciplinary and international Journal that addresses all aspects of home health and hospice care in the home. Now in our 28th year, content is directed toward providing information about evidence-based research, practice, and management. The articles and departments in HHN seek to stimulate creative, cost-effective, safe and high-quality best practice approaches to support effective clinical and operation management for home care and hospice.
New features of the enhanced website include customization for your use--saved searches, personal article collections, easy-to-find supplemental material and media, and the capability to export references into citation managers and figures from full-text articles into Power Point!! Another new feature we will be adding is the "Published Ahead-of-Print" papers. In addition, I will highlight "Free-this-Month" articles that are available for a defined period for your reading pleasure and use!!
Other features here to note include: "Editor's Picks," "Hot Topics," and Future Table of Contents-which is pretty exciting so you see what is up next and coming in Home Healthcare Nurse!! (I can give you a heads up-the February issue features articles about "The PHQ-2 on OASIS-C" and "Causes of Unplanned Hospital Admissions"-both important topics with Medicare certified Home Health Aides.) Visit http://www.homehealthcarenurseonline.com to check it out!!
With this new month and year we have the OASIS-C. Diane Mager and Elizabeth Madigan authored "Medication Use Among Older Adults in a Home Care Setting" because we know medications are an important part of assessment and OASIS-C. I believe the new mantra according to Elizabeth Madigan is "all meds, all the time." The Interdisciplinary Team Perspective and OASIS comes into play in an article entitled "A Study of Inter-Rater Reliability of the Outcome and Assessment Information Set (OASIS): Its Effects on the Home Health Resource Group (HHRG) and Reimbursement" by Paul Shew, Sheryl Sanders, Noelle Arthur, and Kenneth Bush.
In this issue we also have our pediatric focus. Deborah Boroughs and Joan Dougherty present "A Multidisciplinary Approach to the Care of the Ventilator-Dependent Child at Home: A Case Study." Another pediatric-focused article is entitled "Online Resources for Pediatric Home Care Clinicians" by Judith S. Young and Mary Theresa Stec. Our end-of-life care component this month is comprised of the Hospice and Palliative Care Column "Music Therapy" by John Schumacher.
I know we all start off with the best intentions in a New Year and with new goals. Perhaps this is your year that you're going to submit a manuscript to Home Healthcare Nurse!! To that end, kindly find here our wish list of topics and papers we are seeking. Please know this list is not all-inclusive, these are just some of the topics we would like to see addressed. Those of you who have worked with me know I enjoy working with both new (prospective) and experienced authors. I look forward to hearing from you in the New Year and can be reached at [email protected].
Sincerely,
Tina M. Marrelli