Course Code: REL-PAC-0-LAHCD
Hours: 1
Type: Online Course
Content Expiration Date: 12/31/2025
Learning Objectives:
Outline the purpose of documentation in home healthcare.
Explain how to use best practices to create compliant documentation.
Describe how reimbursement requirements and regulatory standards affect documentation in home healthcare.
Outline:
Section 1: Introduction
About This Course
Learning Objectives
Documentation Matters
Obstacles to Good Documentation
Form of Communication
Regulatory Standards
Reimbursement Requirements
Malpractice
Quality Improvement
Review
Summary
Compliant Documentation
Methods for Documenting
Timeliness
Accuracy and Completeness
Writing Clear Notes
Patient Refusal
Incident Reports
Wound Documentation
EMRs
Handwritten Medical Records
Abbreviations
Other Practices
Review
Summary
Patient-Driven Groupings Model
Medicare Reviews
Required Documentation
The Face-to-Face Encounter
Coverage for Skilled Nursing
Observation and Assessment
Managing the POC
Teaching and Training
Venipuncture
Home Infusion Therapy
Conditions of Participation (CoPs)
Patient Rights
Plan of Care
Professional Standards
Coordination of Care
Comprehensive Assessment
Drug Regimen Review
Review
Summary
Section 5: Conclusion
Summary
Course Contributor
Resources
References
Congratulations!
Instructor: Jennifer W. Burks, M.S.N., R.N.
Jennifer has over 30 years of clinical and teaching experience, and her areas of expertise are critical care and home health. She is certified as an OASIS Specialist- Clinical (COS-C) and is a Curriculum Designer in post-acute care for Relias. She earned her Bachelor of Science in Nursing from The University of Virginia in 1993 and her Master of Science in Nursing from The University of North Carolina, Greensboro in 1996. Her professional practice in education is guided by a philosophy borrowed from Florence Nightingale’s Notes on Nursing, “I do not pretend to teach her how, I ask her to teach herself, and for this purpose, I venture to give her some hints.”
Target Audience:
The target audience for this course is: Nursing Personnel; in the following settings: Skilled Nursing Facility.
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Course Delivery Method and Format
Asynchronous Distance Learning with interactivity which includes quizzes with questions/answers, and posttests.