[Who is succeeding whom?--or: In-hospital nursing succeeds outpatient nursing. A current commentary on the theme: Nursing Services Insurance].
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UNLABELLED: Although rheumatoid arthritis is amongst those functional disabling diseases requiring massive help and care, there is as yet no study on how RA patients master their everyday lives, nor are there reports on how many of those patients are in need of and/or do in fact receive benefits from the German Nursing Care Insurance. METHODS: In a representative sample of considerably disabled RA patients (functional capacity < 67%) in rheumatological care it was investigated how many patients received nursing care insurance benefits and how many more would have been entitled to receive them. Standardized interviews exploring functional capacity, amount of help and care needed and help-seeking behaviour were conducted to determine which patient-related and resource-related characteristics were associated with unmet need regarding the patients entitlement to benefits of nursing care insurance. Using the relation between justified need for nursing care insurance benefits and the functional status score, a coefficient was computed by logistic regression to project the expected proportion of RA patients entitled to care insurance benefits. RESULTS: A projected 5.4% of all RA patients needed benefits from the nursing care insurance, but only 63% of those did in fact receive benefits. It was found that unmet need was almost exclusively due to the fact that patients actually eligible for insurance benefits did not apply for it, whereas unjustified rejection of applications by insurance experts made up for only a marginal proportion. CONCLUSION: Applying for nursing care insurance benefits is still not a matter of course. It must be considered that about one third of all obviously care-dependent RA patients either claim care insurance benefits too late or never do. To avoid unmet need, experts should encourage particularly those patients who are unaware of their right to ask for help.
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Patients with technically complex nursing needs are being discharged home from the hospital. Home care agencies striving to meet those needs have clinical, administrative, and educational concerns. Careful planning is the key to meeting these concerns.
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Visiting nurses have provided care to people in their homes for more than a century. Although their role has changed dramatically during the past 100 years, home care nurses remain committed to the key principle of promoting health and welfare while sustaining the values of patient and the home. Patients referred for home care today have increasingly complex and extensive needs. Financial constraints imposed by the government and insurance carriers have accelerated the need for efficiency and excellence in communication, coordination of care, and management of these patients. The WOC/ET nurse practicing in home care can play an invaluable role in promoting positive patient outcomes, developing patient care policies and treatment plans, and establishing standards of care for patients receiving care for chronic wounds, ostomies, or incontinence.
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In accordance with section 13605 of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993, this final rule expands coverage of nurse-midwife services under the Medicaid program by including coverage for those services that nurse-midwives perform outside the maternity cycle as allowed by State law and regulation. In addition, this rule includes several clarifying revisions to the Medicaid regulations.
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This final rule stipulates the requirements for coverage of and payment for pediatric and family nurse practitioner services under the Medicaid program. The coverage of these additional services under the Medicaid program increases the availability and accessibility of medical care for specified Medicaid recipients. This final rule adds to the Medicaid regulations provisions of sections 1902(a)(10)(A) and 1905(a)(21) of the Social Security Act, as amended by section 6405 of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1989.
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