Recognizing & Responding to Changes in the Patient Condition

Description

Spot subtle shifts early and take timely, appropriate action to support patient safety and ongoing eligibility for service. 

It’s important for hospice and home health clinicians to know each patient’s baseline and to be able to identify physical, cognitive, and behavioral deviations quickly, especially since they so often work independently. This session will review how to observe, assess, communicate, and document changes in condition in a way that supports clinical decisions, appropriate levels of care, and regulatory requirements for continued services.

KEY WEBINAR TAKEAWAYS 

• How to recognize and document a patient change in condition
• Key interventions when identifying a patient change in condition
• Appropriate healthcare services for a patient change in condition
• How documentation supports patient eligibility

BONUS MATERIALS 

• Change in Condition Self-Assessment tool
• Functional Assessment Staging (FAST)
• Stages of Dying, including what you can do to help 

WEBINAR DETAILS

Clinicians provide care in settings where they frequently function autonomously. Responding and recognizing changes in a patient’s condition requires the ability to observe, assess, communicate, and document any deviations from a baseline health assessment and status. When we recognize a change in a patient condition, we can appropriately support the level of care needed. This includes documenting to support continuing hospice and home health services. This presentation will help guide clinicians and team members through recognizing a change in condition, what and how to document, and the appropriate actions to take including different levels of care and service. End-of-life changes will also be discussed.

THIS WEBINAR WILL BENEFIT THE FOLLOWING AGENCIES:

• Hospice 
• Home Care
• Home Health
• Palliative Care

WHO SHOULD ATTEND? 

• Director of patient care services, clinical supervisors 
• Case managers
• Education/QAPI
• Clinical field staff
• Clinical staff new to hospice/home health
• Advanced practice clinicians

TAKE-AWAY TOOLKIT

• Employee training log
• Interactive quiz
• PDF of slides and speaker’s contact info for follow-up questions
• Attendance certificate provided to self-report CE credits

NOTE: All materials are subject to copyright. Transmission, retransmission, or republishing of any webinar to other institutions or those not employed by your institution is prohibited. Print materials may be copied for eligible participants only. 

Presented By

Kathy Ahearn

ALECC, Inc.