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The 2024 INS Standards: What’s in It for Home Care? [virtual]
The practice of home infusion therapy continues to grow with an expanding base of research to guide practice. Recognizing this, a new Standard, Home Infusion Therapy, was added to the 2024 Infusion Therapy Standards of Practice. This new Standard provides guidance for safe transitioning of patients to home infusion and safe practices for a variety of home infusion therapies. This Standard also addresses patient education and ongoing monitoring. In this session, we will detail this new Standard as well as how to incorporate guidance from additional Standards with applicability to home infusion therapy.
Learning Objectives: At the conclusion of this session, participants will be able to:
- Summarize patient-related and organizational factors to be considered when planning for home infusion.
- Examine environmental safety issues that potentially impact the plan for home care.
- Evaluate benefits, issues, and risks associated with the various categories of infusion therapies that can be administered in the home.
- Identify important aspects of patient assessment and ongoing monitoring.
- Recognize the importance of patient/caregiver education and support as critical to safe home infusion therapy.
Contact Hours: 1
CRNI® RUs: 2
Lisa Gorski, MS, RN, HHCNS-BC, CRNI®, FAAN
Lisa Gorski has worked for over 35 years as a clinical nurse specialist (CNS)/educator for Wheaton Franciscan Home Health and Hospice, now Ascension at Home. Lisa is the author of more than 70 book chapters and journal articles and is the author of several books. She has served as the INS president from 2007-2008 and as the chair of the INS Standards of Practice Committee from 2009 to 2021, and is the cochair for the 2024 Standards. She is also the leader of the INS Vesicant Task Force. She speaks nationally and internationally on standards development, home health care, and infusion therapy/vascular access.
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