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How To Paint the Picture:10 Better Words to Chart

Hospice Nurse Hero

Additionally, it’s a way of documenting decline that captures the patient’s physical, emotional, and spiritual needs. Furthermore, documenting decline is not only for ensuring quality care but also for meeting Medicare documentation requirements for hospice eligibility and recertification. I’ll be honest.

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Hospice Documentation What You Need to Know

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First, like all nurses, hospice nurses are required to document ALL patient care. Inaccurate and inconsistent documentation is a red flag and could have a negative impact on your patients, your license, and your agency. Therefore, your documentation should tell the patient’s story. Not following the plan of care.

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Palliative Rehab?!?: Ann Henshaw, Tamra Keeney, and Sarguni Singh

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As we think about palliative rehab and Eric: Sarguni, some of your research is you have these patients, many of them don’t receive future cancer treatments, these cancer patients that are going to SNFs. And a lot of them never actually improve their ADLs once they’re sent to SNF. That’s the problem. Eric: Yeah.

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Ep.17: How Home Care Agencies Can Reduce Hospital Readmissions

Home Care Pulse

I was working in home Health back when it was first introduced back in 2010, as a way for c m s to not only create structured penalties for hospitals with excessive readmissions, but also to reward and incentivize those providers for effective care coordination and collaboration with post-acute providers across the care continuum.