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Private Duty Nurse Job Description [Updated for 2025]

Registered Nursing

MAY 1, 2025

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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LPN Medicare Medicaid Long Term Care

How to Implement Behavioral Health Compliance Best Practices

Relias

JULY 23, 2025

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.

Best Practices

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How to Start Virtual Care the Right Way: A Proven Roadmap for 2025 and Beyond

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The government has pledged $10 million for inclusive LGBTQIA+ health care. Here’s what that means

Nursing Review

APRIL 28, 2025

Earlier this month, the federal government announced a $10 million commitment to make Medicare more inclusive for LGBTQIA+ Australians. It aims to improve their access to inclusive, culturally safe primary care through training and accreditation for GPs, nurses and other health-care providers. Why is this needed?

Mental Health

Mental Health Self-Care Medicare Best Practices

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Caring for adults with autism spectrum disorder

American Nurse

JUNE 3, 2024

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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Communication Medicare Self-Care Mental Health

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

Relias

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

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.

Medicare

Medicare Self-Care Medicaid Communication

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

Relias

JANUARY 30, 2024

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.” While this behavior may boost satisfaction ratings, it can also jeopardize quality of care.

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Patient Satisfaction Patient Experience Medicare Self-Care

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

American Nurse

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

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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Medicare Promotion Self-Care Communication

The nurse’s role in advance care planning

American Nurse

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

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.

Self-Care

Self-Care Medicaid Medicare Nurse Practitioner

Home health nursing

American Nurse

JULY 3, 2024

Patient-centered care focused on self-sufficiency The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) uses the term “home health” to describe a federal health insurance program that provides intermittent short-term care to help patients recover from illness and become as self-sufficient as possible at home.

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Self-Care Health Literacy Medicare Home Healthcare

Care Coordination: The Key to Improving Patient Outcomes

Relias

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

What is care coordination? Coordination of care is the process of organizing and integrating health care services for patients across care settings and providers. It is especially important for patients with complex or chronic conditions, multiple comorbidities, or transitions of care.

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The Breadth of Caring for Those with Chronic Conditions

American Nurse

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Many patients to whom nurses provide care have a chronic condition. Therefore, the nurse’s plan of care must be flexible to accommodate the changing presentation of the condition and how it is affected by aging, the environment (including nutrition), and whether there is the presence of other conditions. some cancers).

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Mental Health Self-Care Clinical Nurse Specialist Medicaid

Survey Readiness: Post-Acute Care Compliance Checkup

Relias

OCTOBER 10, 2022

As a post-acute care provider, you need to prove that your organization meets the expected standard of care, safety, and other compliance and regulatory requirements. Quality of care and the environment of care that your organization provides are most important for surveyors. Quality care and optimal clinical outcomes.

Medicaid

Medicaid Medicare Self-Care Licensing

Does the Hospital Price Transparency Rule Increase Your Audit Risk?

Relias

MARCH 13, 2023

Regular compliance audits help organizations provide the most efficient, effective patient care. Formerly, hospitals did not disclose the price of individual services to patients before they received care. Even providers administering care sometimes didn’t know exactly how much a procedure or service would cost.

Medicare

Medicare Medicaid Self-Care Best Practices

Reducing Maternal Mortality: Will the ‘Birthing-Friendly’ Hospital Designation Help?

Relias

JULY 20, 2023

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a final rule in August 2022 to improve maternal health outcomes and advance health equity — two of the Biden-Harris Administration’s key priorities. Ensuring that behavioral health and medical documentation are in the same system can help integrate and improve care.

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Private Duty Nurse Job Description [Updated for 2025]

How to Implement Behavioral Health Compliance Best Practices

Webinars

Trending Sources

The government has pledged $10 million for inclusive LGBTQIA+ health care. Here’s what that means

Webinars

Caring for adults with autism spectrum disorder

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

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

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

The nurse’s role in advance care planning

Home health nursing

Care Coordination: The Key to Improving Patient Outcomes

The Breadth of Caring for Those with Chronic Conditions

Survey Readiness: Post-Acute Care Compliance Checkup

Does the Hospital Price Transparency Rule Increase Your Audit Risk?

Reducing Maternal Mortality: Will the ‘Birthing-Friendly’ Hospital Designation Help?

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