ESAS Education
These areas of the ESAS assessment are required every single visit.
What are pain, nausea, and shortness of breath?
These are the time points that a Drug Regimen Review occurs
What is the Start-Of-Care, Recertifications, every 2 weeks with IDG and any new medications added?
This care plan is applied to all hospice patients, regardless of admitting diagnosis
What is the HSPC General Care Plan
Hospice Aides cannot have this type of visit-set order
What is PRN?
This part of the Comprehensive assessment is where urine and urinary issues are documented
What is the Genitourinary assessment?
This number range indicates the patient is in MILD pain
What is a pain score of 1-3
In EPIC, this is where you would go in order to find the Optum Medication Report.
What is Chart Review, under the Media tab
Care plans need to include the use of this DME device if the patient is ambulating with any type of assistance per Unity Point Policy
What is a gait belt
These disciplines need to have the full visit sets scheduled out for the benefit period
What are skilled nursing and hospice aide?
This type of intervention is used for initial catheter insertion
What is Urinary Catheter Insertion?
With this level of pain score, the patient requires a visit within 2 hours and a follow-up phone call within 8 hours
What is a severe pain score of 7-10
These are 2 ways that drug interactions can be identified on admission
What are using the Optum Report/phone call review and using the interactions tab in the medications task?
When assessment data is reviewed by a surveyor, they would pay particular attention to answers in GI/GU, Appetite, and MAC for this diagnosis
What is protein calorie malnutrition?
These disciplines need to be scheduled out as 1 visit every 6 days for 6 days
How social worker, chaplain, music therapist, and massage therapist need to be scheduled?
This intervention is placed when the patient's catheter will need changed, either scheduled or as needed
What is Catheter Change Intervention?
This required amount of time is when an initial ESAS follow-up visit should occur.
What is 24 hours, based on the admit time
When the patient is living in this type of place, reconciliation must also be done with the building's medication list
What is a nursing home or assisted living facility?
This is needed in order to list the option of a bath and a shower for a patient on the Hospice Care Aide plan
What is having the "Patient/Caregiver Choice intervention?"
These disciplines need to have the start date and admission date match
What are the chaplains and social workers?
You need to update this area of chart to make sure that any new catheter equipment is covered
What is DME?
When performing the ESAS during a visit, this timeframe is the best time to complete it
What is the beginning of the visit
These are all sources of medications that need to be included when performing a Drug Regimen Review.
What are Prescription medications, herbals, vitamins, nutrition supplements, over-the counter drugs, and IV solutions whether taken at home or given in other settings?
The diagnosis of COPD would need this type of "disease-specific" care plan.
What is Alteration-Pulmonary Status Care Plan?
This Smart-Text is required to be used in the comments area of the visit-set order to document the verbal order and details
What is the "UPH HSPC discipline specific VISIT SET ORDER" Smart-Text
When placing a new catheter/changing a catheter, you will need to update this which can be done on Rover
What is the LDA?