Q: When a occupational therapist completes the OASIS-C discharge assessment what OASIS is used? The one for physical therapy or the standard one?
A: Agency-specific policy determines which discipline-specific assessment is completed at each time point by each clinician. The OASIS items within this comprehensive assessment are the same regardless of the discipline completing the assessment.
Lu Post, RN, MN, COS-C, is president of Home Care Institute, LLC, a technology-based company with a focus on the development of home care and hospice educational resources. She is certified as a clinical OASIS Specialist from the OASIS Certificate and Competency Board, Inc. Lu earned her bachelor’s degree in nursing from Georgia State University and her master’s degree as a clinical nurse specialist from Emory University in Atlanta. She has served in a variety of senior leadership and educational roles in some of the largest home care and hospice organizations in the country for over 20 years.
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