A hospital discharge planner sends your facility a referral at 2 p.m., while three other facilities receive the same information. Each team works against the same deadline, and the first to respond with a clear "yes" typically secures the admission. However, every referral must clear the same SNF admission criteria....
Table of Contents A resident arrives from the hospital at 6:45 p.m., and discrepancies prove immediately apparent: the discharge summary lists 14 medications, the transfer packet lists 12, and the family brings a bag of pills from home, including two medications not documented elsewhere.Nearly all skilled nursing facility nurses have...
Table of Contents The hospital packet contains the discharge summary, medication orders, specialists' notes, and diagnostic pages. Your team reviews this information first. Both conditions appear in a recent note, with one also listed in an older problem list. The treatment order, though related to hospital care, specifies the required...
