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  • F Tag 309 Help

    Thursday afternoon, I was visited by the State of Illinois Department of Public Health on a complaint survey. I am an ADON of a LTC sub-acute vent/wound/skilled care facility. On Friday, the surveyor returned to complete her survey and asked for closed medical records for three people that have either...
    Posted to General Forum (Forum) by SalliB on 12-22-2007

  • Wound Care Staging & Push Tool Questions

    I've only been a nurse for about 15 months now and I've been the wound care nurse for a 110 bed facility for about 11 of those 15 months. I've been trying my hardest, downloading all types of info, taking online CE courses, buying text books on wound care, dermatology, etc. but I have a few...
    Posted to General Forum (Forum) by Dafdukling on 12-10-2007

  • Re: Wound Care Program at a Long Term Care Facility

    I also made up this sheet for the MD to do a dictation on in order to capture the medicare A/B piece. Helps to summarize all the information to decide if a pressure ulcer is avoidable vs. unavoidable... Pressure Ulcer Communication Sheet for Physician/NP Resident: _______________________________________________________________...
    Posted to General Forum (Forum) by bandaid12 on 09-26-2007

  • Re: Wound Care Program at a Long Term Care Facility

    [quote user="mark1542"] I recently was put in charge of wound care at a 76 bed rehab based Transitional Care Center. The nurse who was there before me was very disorganized and scattered in her routine of seeing patinets and did not have a good system of documentation and ongoing treatment...
    Posted to General Forum (Forum) by bandaid12 on 09-26-2007

  • Re: Wound Care Program at a Long Term Care Facility

    Mark1542, I am in NY. There is a site called IPRO.org which has a "sub-site" called JENY (joint effort of NY) on this sub-site is the topic Long term care-look under the subject Nursing Homes share and there is a wealth of information. Dave Johnson created a excel program that allows you to...
    Posted to General Forum (Forum) by bandaid12 on 09-26-2007

  • Re: Wound Care Program at a Long Term Care Facility

    First thing to change is the frequency of your measurements...it is required that a RN assess a wound and obtain measurements on a weekly basis. I will be happy to share what I have done at our facility when I have more time available. Today is just an overly busy day...but that is the first thing that...
    Posted to General Forum (Forum) by bandaid12 on 09-25-2007

  • Wound Care Program at a Long Term Care Facility

    I recently was put in charge of wound care at a 76 bed rehab based Transitional Care Center. The nurse who was there before me was very disorganized and scattered in her routine of seeing patinets and did not have a good system of documentation and ongoing treatment choices for each patient. I am a fairly...
    Posted to General Forum (Forum) by mark1542 on 09-06-2007
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