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Home health aides: Their role in OASIS-C best practices, Part II

Pain Aides can check the care plan for any specific pain management instructions. Other assistance an aide can provide includes: Helping the patient with good body positioning. Make certain that positions relieve pressure and rest the area where pain is located. Pacing and planning the activities the patient needs to complete. The aide may need [...]

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What assessments can be used for M1910?

Q: Is the Falls Risk Assessment in M1910 the only assessment we need to use to be able to answer “Yes” on M1910? If we need an additional assessment to answer “Yes”, what does CMS recommend for the RN to use to assess? A: OASIS-C does not provide a Falls Risk Assessment associated with M1910, [...]

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How to Use OASIS-C Data to Improve Quality

OASIS-C has been implemented for more than eight months, and homecare clinicians are still adjusting to the changes and focusing on its proper completion. As clinicians continue to develop a stronger understanding of how to complete the data set, it is important for homecare agencies to educate themselves on how to use the data that [...]

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If the answer to the depression screening, M1730 is positive and the agency does not have psychiatric services, besides notification to the MD and a referral for MSW, what process should be in place for follow up?

Q: If the answer to the depression screening, M1730 is positive and the agency does not have psychiatric services, besides notification to the MD and a referral for MSW, what process should be in place for follow up? Should there be additional screening tools used such as the PHQ-9? Is it the nurse or the [...]

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Measuring Best Practice Compliance

Learn how to measure best practice compliance with these tips: Aggregate, analyze, and assess outcomes for ongoing performance improvement of new agency evidence-based processes Develop clinician scorecards for compliance to new agency best practices Prior to hiring of new staff: - Job description must outline and mandate agency’s best practice policies and compliance needed Review [...]

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OASIS-C and High-risk Medications

What are high-risk medications? Approved list of high-alert medications identified by The Joint Commission, The Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP), Beers Criteria, etc Links to high-risk medications can be found in Chapter 5 of the OASIS-C Guidance Manual OASIS-C process measures related to high-risk medications: Documented in M2010: Drug education – provided on special [...]

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