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Reason for referral: Documentation tips for therapists

Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

If you didn’t document it, it didn’t happen. Today, I would like for us all to consider not merely the importance of documenting daily skilled care but also the reason for referral and the need for initiating services in the first place. How many times have we all heard those words? Limited safety awareness observed.”

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The skill of knowing the basics

Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

As you read below, I also want you to consider: Does the care you provide daily evidence complexity in the interventions you use and the documentation you complete. CERTIFICATION is the physician’s/non-physician practitioner’s (NPP) approval of the plan of care. How does this impact skill? Now on to complexities.

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4 Things Killing Your OASIS Assessment and How to Fix Them

The Productive Home Health Nurse

Or you’re just plain stuck as it pertains to OASIS assessments and documentation as a whole , you may unknowingly be making one or more of the 4 mistakes that we’re going to cover in today’s blog post. Before we dive into this post, let’s take a quick look at the entire OASIS Assessment and Documentation Process.

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How Amazon’s $3.9 Billion One Medical Acquisition Could Disrupt Home-Based Care—For Better or Worse

Home Care Pulse

During that time, internal documents showed Amazon lost $200 million in a single month—a price it was willing to pay to win the war. Should we expect the same in home-based care? Amazon owns key technological capabilities that allow them to deliver skilled and non-skilled care. 1: Technological advantages.

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When the goal is to maintain

Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

Therefore, evaluation, re-evaluation and assessment documented in the Progress Report should describe objective measurements which, when compared, show improvements in function, decrease in severity or rationalization for an optimistic outlook to justify continued treatment.

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Do You Need to Learn Hospice GIP Documentation? [Expert Tips]

Hospice Nurse Hero

One of these skills is understanding and completing hospice GIP documentation. In this article, we’ll explore why you need to learn General Inpatient (GIP) documentation and explore patient scenarios where GIP might be necessary. Plus, I’ll explain when GIP care is appropriate and when it’s not.

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Palliative Researcher Oliver: Family Caregivers Are Also Patients

Hospice News

Health care providers are giving really good patient-focused care, but we’re not doing what I like to call family-centered care. There’s not even a place in most medical records to document that. It is skilled care even when you have no skills, and you have no license, but you’re doing this 24 hours.

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