International Guidelines for Home Healthcare Nursing

Mary Curry Narayan1, Marilyn Harris, Cindy Farris

  • 1Mary Curry Narayan, MSN, RN, HHCNS-BC, CTN, is a Home Health Clinical Nurse Specialist and Education/Quality Consultant, Narayan Associates, Vienna VA. Marilyn Harris, MSN, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN, is Retired Executive Director, current author and editor, Abington Memorial Hospital Home Care & Hospice, Willow Grove, Pennsylvania. Cindy Farris, PhD, MPH, CNE, is Director of Undergraduate Nursing, Department of Nursing, Indiana Purdue University Fort Wayne, Fort Wayne, Indiana. Fong Yoke Hiong, MSC, RN, is Assistant Director Nursing, Hua Mei Centre for Successful Ageing, Tsao Foundation, Singapore. Denise M. McEnroe-Petitte, PhD, MSN, BSN, AS, RN, is an Associate Professor, Nursing, Kent State University Tuscarawas, New Philadelphia, OH.

Home Healthcare Now
|September 1, 2017
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