This reference is designed to fulfilthe needs of home health care nurses providing a manual of guidelines and standardised nursing procedures performed in the home. The manual is divided into six parts: Part One covers Infection Control in the Home, Part Two, Assessment and Therapeutic Care, which details the basic nursing care and physical assessment. Part Three, Medical-Surgical Care, contains nursing procedures logically organised alphabetically within sections related to thebody systems. Part Four, Nutritional Care in the Home, includes diets by disease process. Part Five, Emergency Care in the Home provides recommendations for managing emergencies until EMS personnel arrive. Part Six covers The Home Milieu, reflecting the economic, technological, and social issues encountered by home health nurses. This valuable resource includes over 250 procedures, with 45 new in this edition.