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It is easy to be careless about the documentation. As nurses, we must continually try to raise the bar to set himself and the other to maintain a professional and above all, proof that the techniques we practice most of the good and evidence in every room of our careers.
On the other hand, in the nursing home, it is very easy to succumb to the smallest amount of mapping, to live by the "graph of exclusion" rule and not give us the credit we deserve as an 'professional nurse. What happens then? We have to look as we are not careful, we do not know enough for basic nursing care and even write if we are not ready to raise the bar for us, immediate to get by with less work effort.
It is shameful and an insult to your nursing. The Medicare regulations changed dramatically in 2000 and has continued to evolve since that time. Our documentation should reflect the changes and growth of knowledge under Medicare for all home health patients. We should not be told by Medicare to change, but our desire to change, to develop as nurses and learn at every opportunity.
The OASIS
In the nursing home, the Oasis (outcome and assessment information set) has to admit, to take care, recertification, and major changes in discharge. The admission and CIRNet OASIS is made of doctors called the care plan 485. It is the tool to use for each home health visit when completing the nurse note. Your doctor plans the care home. Your documentation must show that you are aware of the medical, track orders and the doctor that you update the physician, the patient and the family of all changes related to the patient is not the order her doctor.
Without the 485, you're going blind in the house of a patient and provide care without any idea of what the doctor expects from you and learn. This is not how you want your health care provider to offer! For the office staff copy of your doctor in order to generate the 485, you must acquire the OASIS, particularly to admit, but all sorts of this tool, completed and turned in your office on time. Each home health agency has different expectations, but most expect OASIS to be returned to the office within 24 hours of a window.
September Day Window
The reason is that information must be inserted and locked into the computer and sent to the insurance or HMO or private insurance company, in a window of seven days. This does not mean seven days. It way 7days subsequent to the start of care. It is not easy to address. If you work ina hospital and have an admittance to all your documents for admission to be complete by the last part of your shift. Home Health provides a window of 24 hours for completion.
All parts of the OASIS should generally be reviewed by an objective look. Usually, this means that the clinical supervisor or manager of cases that will cover all information and referral in a fine-toothed comb oasis. The result of this, many times, it's your job to return with enough yellow on STICKEY, for it to take wings and fly. None of the adjustments is to insult your intelligence or degrade as a nurse. It is designed to allow you a better view of the information provided by you to take and give a concise picture of the patient and that patients need care at home.
Each piece of the order, sometimes useless, must be made on the OASIS or health insurance or HMO or private insurance company may send it without a word of explanation, except that it is incomplete. A refusal to pay is not the question of which, especially if the incoming information is so vague and superficial, is not the case for our services is a good reason to show.
Your notes daily visit
The following documents, please visit your daily nursing notes must follow the orders of doctors on the OASIS. The 485 will tell you what to write, in fact, nurses write your notes for you if you use the tool is supposed to be. Each note of nursing home should be left alone. Each note should reflect nursing assessment, performance, mission, objectives and progress towards the goals of your patient. This means that you have 485 in your hand to see the patient, the execution of the doctor, to do all the assessments are expected by the doctor and ask the patient what you do, give them the best care possible.
Is not that what we, as professional nurses want for our patients?
Are we not proud that through our extensive skills base, we can go in any home patient care and provide the most competent of independently make decisions critical care reflect our nursing knowledge and help the lives of our patients in a way no other nursing can do? We should be proud enough, then, for the most recent documentation to date that reflect the care provided.
Very often it is just a matter of not giving the credit we deserve. We walk home a patent, and we have to evaluate, and teach all the time but we have never given birth to the nurse in mind that everything is out of our mouths. Well, what says the old? Oh, I know, "If it was not documented, it was not done." If you nurse note, alone, would be held in a courtroom, say ten years, it could be said that a note, what you have accomplished during this visit?
Your boss looking at your work
That's the problem with private health nuts. They are often organized on a search and found lacking. The first study comes from your clinical supervisor who is looking for a nurse to write down your daily life. The nurse looks at the 485 on the screen in front of it or the patient record. First, it is given a quick scan, just looking for any holes, things that were missed because you were in a hurry. Then each piece of paper that has been seen to make sure it shows your awareness of the 485, the patient and that everything you achieve in this visit, which was planned by the physician.
Parts of the 485
The 485 has several fields that correspond to all that is relevant to that patient. It includes demographic information, insurance, supplies, home status, functional limitations, assessments, skills, and the instructions of the nurse will deliver the objectives that we want the patient within 60 days. Fields 18, 21 and 22 are the ones we are most used to provide care and nurses write each note. Field 18 applies to home status and functional limitations. They must match the note of your nurse if you need to document how they have changed. Perhaps therapy increased a patient of a hiker on a stick. The nurse should note indicating that change and you must write each time the therapy, the patient's progress. You carry around 485 to a visit to be chipped by the time of dismissal can barely read. It must be all new and modified commands to enjoy it. You should be able to get their hands on it, without hesitation, one second and see your patient in the eye of your mind. Your clinical supervisor should be able to choose one of your day to day to visit a patient and also your notes to see in their eyes and minds.
Field 21 is what you should do each visit for that patient. Of course, if for example you have the doctor later in wound care wound care and must literally. You must provide the wound care or skill, just like the doctor ordered for the signature of 485. Otherwise, we provide care without a doctor's prescription. Even if all you changed is rather kerlix Kling, it is a mistake. The real risk for patients with complex wounds, IV therapy, after therapy, polypharmacy and treatment. Without 485 in your hands, you do not provide safe standards of best practice.
Differences in the Daily Nurse's Note
If the 485 has a diet low in sodium and write your heart, it will come back to you. If you write learned about the disease process, without evidence, it will come back to you. If you are not writing a progress measurable objectives in the field of 22 on your 485, it goes back o you. If you said you drew labs and not specify at each stage up to you. If you have not written an injection cyancobalamine and the lot number and expiration date, it will come back to you. While some states patients had a pulse oximetry and decision 485 does not order a physician for oximetry, it will come back to you. If you forget to specify how many recall that the patient had previous visits, he will be back for you. If you write that you are to the patient intravenously without giving any steps you've learned, it will come back o you. If the return is received without proof of the writing of what was said, so it will again come to you. Track, if you write about sending the patient to doctor's office or hospital emergency rooms, which will be closely examined to make sure you use the best practices, called the doctor, the nurse in the emergency room knowledge of the patients who come to them, called the counselor and completed all the forms that go with all notices of other areas of your actions.
But WHY?
The reason for the extremely careful documentation of course, that every note is nursing independently. It must be able to be picked up years, months or days from now and see exactly what and how something was made in these patients at home. Most of all, what is required in each nursing note, your knowledge of the 485 doctors and expectations for home care.
What is through all home health agencies is not for the life of the field staff unhappy. Home health agencies are held accountable by Medicare, the HMO or private insurer responsible for providing outstanding care. Your Clinical Supervisor is responsible for their work and in turn you back as a field, responsible for the care you provide. If you are paid a visit by the hour or by salary, the expectations remain the same. Provide care to the patient that the doctor ordered and responsible for everything you do.
As home care nurses, we are the eyes of the doctor. We must use our mouth to keep the physician informed of what's happening with the patient. We need to provide quality patient care deserves. We must continue every day to learn and grow as a nurse every day to meet the needs of our patients' needs. We are pleased to do so. We are service oriented people who want only the best for our patients and we want to be proud of care we provide in home health.
