Roles
This is your primary contact for any education or orientation needs
Who is the CDS (Kim) or Preceptor (Alissa)
This form should be given at least 48 hours prior to discharge and is only needed for agency discharges
What is a NOMNC (Notice of Medicare Non-Coverage)
Common symptoms of this disease process include weight gain, SOB, lower extremity edema, cough, and nocturia
What is Congestive Heart Failure (CHF)
The form in Epic Remote client to document your assessment of wounds, IV, pleurx, foley, SP, trach
What is the wounds/lines/drains form
These 2 things, located outside the contact of Epic Remote Client, should be reviewed at every visit to ensure there are no changes
What are medications and allergies
This is your primary contact to help you with any follow up (MD phone calls, faxes, orders, MOU forms, etc.)
Who is the Team Facilitator (Tracy or Vivian)
This form should be given on the day of discharge and is only needed for discipline discharges
What is a HHCCN (Home Health Change of Care Notice)
What is diabetes
One of the areas where we document the education, skill, and patient's response/tolerance to help justify our skill for the visit to insurance
What are the interventions
This is the largest organ of the body and should be assessed at every visit for changes
What is the skin
This is your primary contact for any PTO requests, call outs, concerns about the job, feeling overwhelmed, kronos questions, productivity
Who is your Manager?
This form is for any service that is not be covered by Medicare, requiring the patient to pay out of pocket
What is the ABN (Advance Beneficiary Notice of Non-Coverage)
Often the first and most noticeable symptom in the elderly of this common GU issue is a change in mental status
What is a Urinary Tract Infection (UTI)
If a patient has a fall, we would document it in this form
What is the fall report form
This is a basic hygiene skill and should be performed with your vitals equipment after every patient
What is clean equipment
This is your primary contact for any scheduling needs - if a patient cancels and you need another, if you do not have enough visits, if you cannot get ahold of a patient, if a patient would like to be moved to another day.
Who is the Team Coordinator (TC) / Scheduler (Alexsandra/Melissa/Claire)
This form is given when services in addition to home care are in place. The form outlines responsibilities of each service and helps prevent duplication of services. Commonly used with ALF's, IV companies, and group homes
What is a Memo of Understanding (MOU)
Patients with this disease process may require speech therapy for thickened liquids, word finding, and speech, physical & occupational therapy to help with weakness and fine motor skills, and skilled nursing to educate on new blood thinners, statins, smoking cessation, and when to call 911 for re-occurrence.
What is an ischemic stroke
A place in Epic Remote Client to send report to the primary care nurse of the patient you are seeing
What is the inbasket
This is a basic nursing skill and should be done at every visit. This skill requires the use of auscultation, palpation, and vision
What is a general head to toe assessment
This is your primary contact for questions regarding OASIS changes or if you need general help
Who is the NCC (Liz, Nakeisha, Erica, Mary)
This form is located in Epic Remote Client and is required at every visit
What is the Home Health E-Signature
Patient's with this disease process can get increasingly confused, anxious, sometimes combative, and are at risk for wandering at night
What is sun downing with dementia
The place you document your routine visit note in (make sure to use the template!)
What is the discharge - visit note intervention
This should be done with your stethoscope to prevent unwanted sounds from skewing your assessment
What is auscultate underneath clothing