Hospice Nurse Hero

MARCH 6, 2024

Furthermore, documenting decline is not only for ensuring quality care but also for meeting Medicare documentation requirements for hospice eligibility and recertification. I didn’t always understand how to chart for hospice. When I started as a hospice nurse, I struggled with the concept of “negative” charting.

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Hospice Nurse Hero

JANUARY 26, 2022

Why Hospice Documentation Matters. First, like all nurses, hospice nurses are required to document ALL patient care. Related Article: 3 Common Mistakes Hospice Nurses Make and How to Avoid Them. Hospice Charting Fundamentals. These words may imply that the patient should not be in hospice.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 19, 2023

A lot of times we, unfortunately, had to eat a lot of the reimbursement because we had to switch them to a routine level of care, even if they were in our inpatient unit, while our social work team worked on placement issues or they worked on caregiver issues. How does this relate to a hospice bottom line at a hospice organization?

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