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Check Out This One-Page Form For Medication Reconciliation

Published on Sun Mar 12, 2006

Simple is better to ensure staff have time to identify all of a resident's meds.

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Long-Term Care Survey Alert

SURVEY UPDATE:
What You Need To Know Now About The New Slate Of Revised F Tags
Surveyors will be ready to roll with new interpretive guidance on June 1.

If you were [...]

SURVEY MANAGEMENT:
Use Revised Survey Guidance To Scope Out Scope and Severity
Find out what CMS considers actual harm and immediate jeopardy.

What's good for the surveyors can [...]

RESIDENT ASSESSMENT:
Sidestep Blame For Skin Breakdown That Occurred In Another Setting
You have some wiggle room at F314 to avoid citations.

Just because your nursing facility "inherits" [...]

SURVEY MANAGEMENT:
Get Your Medical Director Involved At Every Step Of The Survey Process
Here's how to cut off F501 tags at the get-go.

How involved is your medical director [...]

Survey Tip:
Know When To Do A Pre-Exit
Hint: Don't save the worst for last.

A pre-exit interview can help turn around a survey heading [...]

QUALITY OF CARE:
Go On A Quest For The Best--Develop Top-Notch Nursing Policies And Procedures
7 ways to keep a step ahead of the latest evidence-based practices.

You want to do [...]

QUALITY OF CARE:
The Wrong Nursing Policies/Procedures Can Ladle Up A Numeric Soup Of F Tags
Keep your eye on these requirements.

If your policy and procedure manual doesn't spell out how [...]

CLIP 'N' SAVE:
Don't Get Stuck With An F328 Tag For Faulty Injections
Would your facility pass this survey probe?

In evaluating your compliance with F328, surveyors may take [...]

RISK MANAGEMENT:
Master Medication Reconciliation--Or Reconcile Yourself To Survey Citations
Jump on the bandwagon of this safety practice before it's too late.

If your facility thinks [...]

PATIENT SAFETY:
Could This Patient Safety Nightmare Be A Discharge Away?
Failing to reconcile a patient's meds could result in a liability wake-up call.

Picture this: You [...]

MEDICATION MANAGEMENT:
Too Many Of These Drugs Can Add Up To Anticholinergic Toxicity
If a resident develops delirium or confusion, review his meds.

One medication with anticholinergic properties may [...]

CLIP 'N' SAVE:
Check Out This One-Page Form For Medication Reconciliation
Simple is better to ensure staff have time to identify all of a resident's meds.

SURVEY & CLINICAL NEWS
Will DAVE 2 be likely to report you for potential survey violations? DAVE will report [...]

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