Home Health & Hospice Week

These important questions will help you assess your clinical processes and make improvements,said Chicago-based regulatory consultant Rebecca Friedman Zuber in a December audioconference sponosored by Eli, "OASIS-C: What You Need to Know Now About this Major Assessment Overhaul": Do you use reporting parameters in plans of care? Are you assessing the need for vaccinations? Are you assessing pain using a standardized tool? Are you insuring that pain interventions are in place? Are you assessing risk for pressure ulcer development? Are you taking appropriate steps to prevent development of pressure ulcers? Are you ensuring that moisture retentive dressings are ordered by your physicians to treat pressure ulcers? Are you assessing and securing orders for skin lesions and wounds that are not pressure ulcers, stasis ulcers,surgical wounds, or bowel ostomies? Are you including monitoring the feet of diabetic patients and providing patient education in your care plan? Did you follow the diabetic [...]