Fall risk assessments
Compliance Monitor, April 29, 2005
Want to receive articles like this one in your inbox? Subscribe to Compliance Monitor!
Q: How can we get our nurses to do a risk assessment, or even to do a medication evaluation as part of a risk assessment?
A: There are many tools that are available. Try to embed the risk assessment tools into existing risk assessment documents. For example, a risk assessment tool and factors to consider for a fall are included at admission.
Older individuals in particular can come in with anywhere from 10-15 different medications, and this can be a taxing task for nurses to get that information from the patient or family members.
One thing that I have found helpful, at least in the community setting, and I think you can use in the hospital setting, is what's known as a brown bag. You tell a patient before they come into the hospital to collect all the medications they have and put them in a brown paper bag and bring them in.
Editor's note: The following was excerpted from the HCPro audioconference "Patient falls and medications: How to comply with the JCAHO's Patient Safety Goal." Rein Tideiksaar, president of FallPrevent, LLC, provided the answer. For more information, call customer service at 800/650-6787 or visit www.hcmarketplace.com.
Want to receive articles like this one in your inbox? Subscribe to Compliance Monitor!
Related Products
-
Strategies for Health Care Compliance
News and real-life examples to increase the effectiveness of your compliance program. Strategies for Health Care Compliance...
-
Compliance Monitor
This HTML e-mail newsletter delivers news on Medicare and Medicaid fraud and abuse, as well as recent documents and targets...
-
Medicare Weekly Update
Each issue of Medicare Weekly Update includes the latest CMS proposed and final rules, CMS manual revisions, and...
-
Medicare Update for Physician Services
Medicare Update for Physician Services is a free, monthly e-zine that delivers news and information to help physician...
Most Popular
- Articles
-
- Q/A: Volume requirement for reporting hydration services
- Featured blog post: Nurses face felony charges after reporting physician to the Texas Medical Board
- Catch up on what's new with injections and infusions
- Identify potential Medicaid RAC target areas
- HIPAA Q&A: Level of encryption needed for email
- Topic: CMS, OESS post new security compliance review information, checklist
- Capturing all necessary codes for IUD insertion and removal can be challenging
- What does case-mix index mean to you?
- OB services: Coding inside and outside of the package
- QA:Coding multiple initial infusions
- E-mailed
-
- Q/A: Volume requirement for reporting hydration services
- Featured blog post: Nurses face felony charges after reporting physician to the Texas Medical Board
- CMS has reformulated payments for some bilateral procedures
- HIPAA Q&A: Level of encryption needed for email
- Q&A: Follow CMS' coding guidelines when using modifier -25
- What does case-mix index mean to you?
- Catch up on what's new with injections and infusions
- New conflicts of interest create new challenges
- Q/A. One injection code or two?
- Do not code 57288 with 52000
- Searched