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Private Duty Nurse Job Description [Updated for 2025]

Registered Nursing

Private duty nursing is a growing and in-demand field offering a highly personalized approach to patient care. A private duty nurse is a licensed nurse (either RN or LPN/LVN ) who provides one-on-one care to a single patient, usually in their home. What Is a Private Duty Nurse?

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How to Implement Behavioral Health Compliance Best Practices

Relias

Medical record information quality and integrity issues can create potential concerns about patient safety, quality of care, and compliance. These boards oversee both in-person and virtual care, meaning providers must align with varying state-specific policies and meet federal compliance requirements.

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Caring for adults with autism spectrum disorder

American Nurse

adults have received a diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) Many clinical nurses don’t have the knowledge needed to customize patient-centered care to meet the individual needs of adults with ASD. Many organizations lack the resources to support clinical nurses in identifying adults with ASD and implementing appropriate care.

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Home Health Agencies Face Growing Competition as Value-Based Purchasing Expands Nationally

Relias

With the successes reaped during the pilot of the Home Health Value-Based Purchasing (HHVBP) program, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) aims to accelerate the results nationwide. This measure also includes two aggregate measures, which are called total normalized composite (TNC) self-care and TNC mobility.

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How to Keep Patients Satisfied — and Raise Your Patient Satisfaction Scores

Relias

Healthcare organizations receive scores from the HCAHPS survey , which according to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, is “the first national, standardized, publicly reported survey of patients’ perspectives of hospital care.” The financial impact of HCAHPS scores can be significant.

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The Lived Experience of Providing Preventative Caries Care in Missouri Post COVID-19 and Cannabis Legalization

American Nurse

NURSES IN MISSOURI must be able to assess a client’s ability to perform activities of daily living including preventative oral care (Registered Nursing.Org, 2024 ). The oral care plan should meet oral care standards and educate about various methods, safety measures, and the use of assistive devices to facilitate self-care hygiene.

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The nurse’s role in advance care planning

American Nurse

Takeaways: The 1990 Federal Patient Self Determination Act requires that Medicare- and Medicaid-funded healthcare organizations follow state laws related to advance directives. Advance directives are legal documents that allow adults to record their wishes related to serious illness or end-of-life care.