Terms and Acronyms
Home Safety
Wound Care
Patient Teaching
Compliance
100
Assessment tool for skilled home care.
What is the OASIS?
100
In impenetrable containers (glass, plastic, etc)
How at home patients should store used needles?
100
Intact skin with non-blanchable redness of a localized area usually over a bony prominence
What is a Stage 1 pressure ulcer?
100
339-6683 press 9 to leave a message
What is the number to call to reach on-call?
100
Requires the involvement of the physician
What is the Medicare Conditions of Participation
200
An episode with four or fewer visits
What is a LUPA (Low Utilization Payment Adjustment)?
200
Grab bars, raised toilet seats, shower chairs
What are some safety devices used in the bathroom?
200
Largest organ in the body
What is skin?
200
Do not eat large amounts of green vegetables, be aware of excessive bruising
What is anticoagulant precautions?
200
Leaving home must require a considerable and taxing effort
What is Home Bound status?
300
MLTC - Managed Long Term Care
What is the acronym for the Medicaid Managed Care System?
300
Handrails, lift chairs, reachers, hoyer lifts.
What are some safety devices used in the home?
300
Full thickness tissue loss in which the base of the ulcer is covered by slough and/or eschar in wound bed.
What is an unstageable pressure ulcer?
300
Monitor your weight daily, limit sodium use, pace your activity with rest periods
What are precautions for a patient with CHF?
300
Supplying wound dressings, foley supplies, and/or ostomy supplies
What must be supplied to all Medicare patients?
400
Patient/Physician in-person interaction
What is the Face to Face?
400
Scatter rugs, stairs, clutter
What are obstacles typically found in the home?
400
Rolled/curled under edges of the wound edge
What is Epibole?
400
Finish all your prescribed medication, take with food, watch for rash, diarrhea, let physician know if symptoms have not improved
What is antibiotic use teaching?
400
Present and non-present supervisions every 14 days
What is time frame for HHA supervisions?
500
ICD-10
What is the latest version of the Medical Coding System?
500
Call 911, leave the home, call supervisor
What should staff do if they find an unsafe situation in the home?
500
Length x width x depth
How a wound is measured weekly?
500
Have adequate food and water, know what your medications are, have an alternate living arrangement
What is disaster preparedness?
500
Medicare COP concerning communication
What is interdiscipline communication between all disciplines providing patient care?
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