“Home Care Nursing: Surviving in an Ever-Changing Care Environment should be required reading for all current or prospective home care providers. Tina Marrelli has written the definitive resource for anyone interested in the home care field. Her work is especially timely as home care navigates the transition to new care delivery and payment models requiring expanded care teams, new business models, and performance improvement. This book offers a critical guide to success in home care.”
–Tracey Moorhead
President and CEO, Visiting Nurse Associations of America (VNAA)
“Tina Marrelli expertly captures the essence of providing home care in today’s challenging and complex healthcare environment. Home care and hospice are unique niches of the healthcare continuum and their provision requires knowledge and understanding beyond basic clinical needs. This book encompasses the ‘need to knows’ and more for a home care clinician and conveys the information in an understandable and thoughtful manner. I envision this book in the bag of every home care nurse as their home care clinical companion.”
–Jennifer Kennedy, MA, BSN, RN, CHC
Senior Director, Regulatory & Quality, National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization
“Just as Tina Marrelli’s Handbook of Home Health Standards has been a go to reference, Home Care Nursing: Surviving in an Ever-Changing Care Environment will become a classic resource. It is a helpful tool for those new to the field or as a refresher for the experienced home care nurse. It should also be a guide for non-clinicians that often serve as agency administrators or key operations staff in home care agencies.”
–Barbara Piskor, MPH, BSN, RN, NEA-BC
President, CEO, BKP HealthCare Resources
“A well timed gift to an industry experiencing widespread change! The information found in these chapters not only provides the new home care clinician with a basic foundation of home care concepts, it also identifies the current challenges in the industry and provides thoughtful strategies for successful care delivery and patient outcomes. A must read for everyone in home care!”
–Kim Corral, MaEd, BSN, RN, COS-C
Consultant, Chelta, Inc.
“Whether you are new to home care or have worked for years in that care environment, Home Care Nursing will provide the answers you have been looking for. The book reflects the diversity of nursing practice within home care, and the standalone chapters allow the reader to personalize the order in which the book is read. The author’s many years of experience as a home care nurse and consultant make this the go-to resource every home care nurse needs.”
–Maureen Anthony, PhD, RN
Professor, McAuley School of Nursing
University of Detroit Mercy
Editor-in-Chief, Home Healthcare Now
“This book offers a wonderful resource for home care nurses; nurses entering the specialty; and all levels of nursing students. The author is a long-time expert, which is demonstrated in the book. The book is critical. We need to adapt our nursing practice and provide quality services—patients need more services in their homes, reducing need for hospital days, readmission, and use of long-term care facilities when possible. The up-to-date content is easy to read and apply.”
–Anita Finkelman, MSN, RN
Visiting Lecturer, Nursing Department
Recanati School for Community Health Professions
Faculty of the Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
“Tina Marrelli brings her expertise in home care to address the complexity of providing patient-centered and value based care in the community setting—all within the current regulatory environment. This book pulls complex elements together to demonstrate a successful home based care model. This is a perfect resource for orientation, or reorientation, to home care.”
–Cathleen “Cat” Armato, RN, CHPN, CHC, CHPC
Principal Consultant, Armato & Associates, LLC
“Once again, Tina Marrelli has made an informational book something that captures readers attention with personal stories and relevance. Home care is complex, but one can read this regardless of knowledge base and have sound, evidence-based, practical information. A must read for clinicians considering home care. Great training tool for any agency with questions at the end of each chapter and weaving of critical information in multiple chapters so one does not lose information.”
–Dedee Culley, RN, COS-C
Legal Nurse Consultant
“Tina Marrelli’s latest book is just on time as healthcare evolves away from acute care and into homes and communities. The reader is provided with a broad overview of the setting in which more than 90% of all long term care happens—the home. Progressive health professionals will want to dig into this book as we advance away from fee-for-service to value based purchasing, bundling, and ACOs. Don’t miss the final chapter, “Where to From Here, or Welcome to the Most Exciting Healthcare Setting There Is!” Kudos to Marrelli and STTI for their foresight in addressing this important topic.”
–Warren Hebert, DNP, RN, CAE
RWJF Executive Nurse Fellow (2006-2009)
Chief Executive Officer, Homecare Association of Louisiana
“Tina Marrelli’s passion and commitment for providing the BEST possible care for patients continues to shine through in her new book Home Care Nursing: Surviving in an Ever-Changing Care Environment. Her depth of knowledge and understanding of regulatory issues, nursing practice standards, and clinical management challenges are unsurpassed in today’s healthcare climate. She is definitely the ‘go-to’ person for all things home care and hospice!”
–Cathy L. Sasser, RPh
Clinical Pharmacist. Soleo Health
Former Editorial Board member, Home Healthcare Nurse
“Tina Marrelli’s newest book makes an important contribution by providing thoughtful insights in the health care sector about the current state and future directions of home health care for professionals—both those just starting out and the more experienced leaders in the field.”
–David. L. Jackson, MD, PhD
President, Jackson & Associates, Inc.
Adjunct Professor of Medicine, Division of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
“This book is a practical, common-sense guide to remind us no matter how home care has changed in its many years of existence, there is always a need for the delivery of quality, accessible, and affordable care to our patients. The home is the most varied independent setting in healthcare, and the skills and knowledge of the clinician must be second to none. This book provides the information that is so needed to the newcomer and those more experienced to not only survive, but succeed!”
–Nancy E. Allen, BSN, RNC, CMC
Founder and President, Solutions for Care, Inc. Author, Survivor!: 10 Practical Steps to Survey Survival, 4th Edition
“Home Care Nursing: Surviving in an Ever-Changing Care Environment is a relevant, on-point book that is well written. We highly recommend this book to anyone who is practicing in this field today. Tina Marrelli covers all the basics of home care nursing in a new, fresh way, and inclusion of Face to Face and homebound status issues make this a cutting edge resource for home care nurses, clinicians, managers, and administrators alike.”
–Arlene O’Brien, MALS, RN
Alice Schroeder, MPA, RN
Executive Editors of the Journal of Community Health Nursing
“Tina Marrelli includes ‘real-world’ examples of the challenges and unique scenarios when providing care in the home, yet provides useful, practical information and a myriad of resources to address them. A must read for every new home care nurse, and a great resource for every veteran home care nurse.”
–Mary McGoldrick, MS, RN, CRNI
Home Care and Hospice Consultant, Home Health Systems, Inc.