Every Breath You Take
This device helps patients take slow, deep breaths and expand their lungs.
What is Incentive Spirometry?
This score is generally expected to be higher at discharge than admission.
What is the functional score?
This discipline commonly assesses sensory processing's impact on self-care and daily occupations.
What is Occupational Therapy?
True or False: A resident must be improving to qualify for skilled maintenance therapy.
What is False?
This is the max amount of units that can be billed in a single session.
What is 3 units?
A score of 6 on Section GG indicates this level of assistance.
What is Independent?
This sensory system helps us maintain balance and detect movement.
This sensory system helps us maintain balance and detect movement
This landmark court case clarified that a patient's potential for improvement is not required for skilled therapy coverage.
What is the Jimmo v. Sebelius Settlement?
Poor breath support can negatively impact this area commonly addressed by SLPs.
What is speech, voice production, or airway clearance?
Name four activities commonly assessed in Section GG self-care measures.
What are eating, oral hygiene, toileting hygiene, and upper/lower body dressing?
A resident who pushes too hard or too softly when using utensils may have deficits in this sensory system.
What is proprioception?
Which diagnosis is MOST commonly associated with skilled maintenance therapy: A. Ankle sprain B. Parkinson's disease C. Seasonal allergies D. Ingrown toenail.
What is Parkinson's disease?
This is the main thing measured by an incentive spirometer.
What is inspiratory volume (the amount of air inhaled)?
Falls, rehospitalization, and caregiver burden may increase when this happens.
What is discharging with low functional ability?
This sensory integration concept describes the ability to conceive, plan, and execute unfamiliar motor tasks.
What is praxis?
Which of these examples are considered Skilled Maintenance Therapy:
A) Therapist has a patient lift weights w/ BUE, providing verbal cues for facilitation and grading of task.
B) Therapist walks patient in hallway to room while telling the resident how he walks so well.
What is A?
This pulmonary complication can occur when alveoli fail to fully inflate.
What is atelectasis?
If a resident's discharge score exceeds this benchmark, they performed better than anticipated.
What is the Expected Discharge GG Score?
This term describes the nervous system's ability to change and adapt through sensory experiences.
What is neuroplasticity?
A resident's exercise program requires frequent adjustment due to fluctuating symptoms from Multiple Sclerosis. Why is therapy skilled?
What is because ongoing therapist judgment and modification are required?