November 2023 - Home Health Patient Education

Home Health Nurse Assessment

Home Health Nurse Assessment Now you can generate similar detailed and comprehensive skilled nursing narrative for various health conditions using our customizable skilled nursing documentation templates. Sign up know more!! Here is an example of our 60 day summary template- https://homehealthpatienteducation.com/60-day-summary-template/ #1 Reason(s) for Admission to Home Health Degenerative Disc Disease Lumbar Fusion Back Precautions Patient is a 71-year-old female patient with history of degenerative disc disease involving the lumbar spine and underwent lumbar fusion [...]

Patient-Driven Groupings Model (PDGM) in Home Health Care

Patient-Driven Groupings Model (PDGM) in Home Health Care The Patient-Driven Groupings Model (PDGM) is a reimbursement payment model used by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) for home health services in the United States. It was implemented on January 1, 2020, and it replaced the previous payment model known as the Prospective Payment System (PPS). PDGM is designed to more accurately reimburse home health agencies for the services they provide to Medicare beneficiaries. [...]

Nurse Teachings on Safety Measures for Alzheimer’s Patients

Nurse Teachings on Home Safety Measures for Alzheimer’s Patients Nurse educated the patient and caregiver on home safety measures to be observed for Alzheimer’s patients as follows: Avoid/limit the use of mirrors in patient’s room and restroom, as mirror images can be extremely confusing to an individual with Alzheimer’s. It is very common for an Alzheimer’s patient to interpret the image of self in the mirror as a different person and fearing a threat from this [...]

Nursing Narrative Note Examples for Recertification Assessment

Nursing Narrative Note Examples for Recertification Assessment Now you can generate similar detailed and comprehensive skilled nursing narrative for various health conditions using our customizable skilled nursing documentation templates. Sign up know more!! Here is an example of our 60 Day summary template- https://homehealthpatienteducation.com/60-day-summary-template/ #1 Reason(s) for Home Health Recertification Un-resolving Pain Episodes Sleep Disturbances Un-resolving GERD Comprehensive home visit SN assessment and evaluation of all of patient's body systems, needed for recertification to home [...]