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Why leave difficult ethics decisions to chance? The Ethics Handbook for Home Health Agencies gives you everything you need to establish an ethics program---for accreditation---that promotes consistent, ethical care delivery! The Complete Home Health Agency Ethics Kit---handbook plus 12 printed forms. Your staff deal with difficult ethics issues every day---a patient's right to refuse needed care... DNR situations... a family's noncompliance with the plan. Even if your agency is not involved in accreditation, a clear and comprehensive ethics policy helps you deal with ethics issues in a consistent way. And now, even the smallest agencies can put together a sound ethics program quickly and economically! The Ethics Handbook comes in an attractive 3-ring binder, so you can add your own information as you go along. Save even more time with The Complete Home Health Agency Ethics Kit, which includes the Handbook plus 12 high-quality, laser-printed original forms you can use to document every step of the ethics process. The Ethics Handbook for Home Health Agencies gives you a vast array of tools to build an ethics program that fits your exact needs. The Handbook includes: * a complete staff education outline covering ethics issues and concepts * patient rights and a process for resolving questions of ethics * practical tips on developng an agency code of ethics * handling staff objections to providing care * addressing conflicts of interest * sample forms for identifying and resolving ethics conflicts * an extensive bibliography to help you find additional resources on ethics issues The Complete Home Health Agency Ethics Kit -- handbook plus 12 printed forms. (You get your own set of laser-printed master forms with license to reproduce for unlimited copies within your agency.) 12 Printed Ethics Forms: 1. Ethics Program Annual Plan 2. Ethics Advisory Committee Meeting Agenda 3. Ethics Advisory Committee Meeting Minutes 4. Summary Evaluation of Ethics Advisory Committee Act