Home Health & Hospice Week

Items on pressure ulcers, processes, and doc notification most troubling in new assessment tool. If you've had nurses wanting to quit over the new OASIS assessment tool, you're not alone. The increased time required to complete the new assessment and the many trouble spots among the new items are driving clinicians crazy. "I am hearing a lot of grumbling from our members whose nurses are complaining about the  ncreased burden and threatening to quit," notes Joe Hafkenschiel with the California Association for Health Services at Home. "This is yet another unfunded cost at a time when they are trying to cut our payments by $40 billion plus." "I know of one RN director who has resigned because of her frustration with dealing with" wound assessment problems, particularly the definition of the term "re-epithelialized," reports consultant Pam Warmack with Clinic Connections in Ruston, La. In the first weeks of OASIS C, [...]