The ___ contains all initial orders for each discipline.
What is the 485?
100
The survey mailed to the patient following home health services is called the _____.
What is Patient Satisfaction Survey?
100
In order to qualify for home heath services the patient must be homebound. According to the regulations, the patient may leave the home but it must require a _____ effort.
What is taxing?
100
The form we issue at least 48 hours before discharge is called the ______
What is Medicare Notice of Non-Coverage?
200
The comprehensive assessment must be completed within the first ___ days.
What is five?
200
A call to the MD is made requesting change in wound care orders. A new order is received. This type of order is called ___.
What is a interim order?
200
Timeliness of care is a measured outcome for the home health agency. The expectation is that the agency will have initiated service within ____ hours of referral.
What is 48?
200
Your patient has been on service for 30 days. She is doing well but tells you that she is on a new antibiotic for a UTI. You write this information in your note, update the medication list, and update the ____ list.
What is diagnosis?
200
What is the one sentence we need to add to our ROC narrative that allows us to resume prior services?
What is "resume all previous orders unless otherwise indicated?
300
The Braden Risk Assessment tool is designed to determine ___.
What is risk for skin breakdown?
300
Wound care must be delivered exactly as stated on the orders. Substituting kerlix for kling ______ require an MD order.
What is would?
300
Management and mitigation of the patient's pain is an outcome measure. By accurately capturing the patient's pain at SOC we then have a chance to show improvement by discharge.
Assessment of pain at SOC includes the time of assessment and _____ hours prior.
What is 24 hours?
300
Providing a monthly B12 injection is a skilled service. When we document the injection in our visit note we note the location of injection, the time of injection, the lot number, and expiration date of the Cyancobalamine.
How long must we stay in the patient's house following injection to ensure no negative reactions?
What is 20 minutes?
300
In order to get credit for completing a process measure we need to have the intervention listed on our POC, and we need to have taught the information.
How many times must we document the process measures in our notes before we can take credit for addressing that measure on the discharge OASIS?
What is one?
400
The OASIS data set collects information about the patient at various time points. The reported information is then used by Medicare to measure outcomes.
When answering the OASIS items, the clinician MUST report the patient status _____ any teaching or intervention occurs.
What is before?
400
Wound care orders must contain the following: Location of the wound, frequency of care, and the specific care to be provided. If the wound care exceeds our visit frequency then we must also document __________.
What is who will be providing the care?
400
On admission, your patient requires supervision during ambulation for safety. The patient __________ be independent in oral medication management.
What is cannot?
400
Visits should only be accessed though your ______________ screen.
What is scheduling?
400
__________ is a technique used to measure the amount of information retained by the patient after teaching. It is considered the "best practice" method for patient teaching and should be documented in the notes.
What is Teach Back?
500
Pulse oximetry is often used in home health to measure the blood oxygen saturation level at rest and during activity.
The pulse oximeter also tells us the patient's heart rate however is not able to detect irregularity. In guidance with best practice standards we would also check the __________heart rate.
What is radial and/or apical?
500
When altering a visit frequency, the new order should always begin on a _________.
What is Sunday?
500
Outcomes are publically reported information and can be used by anyone interested in seeing how well we help our patient's improve.
________ is the web site where the outcome information can be found?
What is Home Health Compare?
500
A visit solely for the purpose of a home heath aide supervision is a __________ visit.
What is non-billable?
500
Name three of the process measures included on the OASIS.
What are Diabetic Foot Care, Pressure Ulcer Prevention, Pain management, Depression screening, Fall Prevention?