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Hello everyone who works for home health!
Please make me understand the following (based on my experience as an admin for a home health):
-Sometimes is takes a month or even two months to get home health documentation from a field nurse
-The documentation is missing critical info or poorly chosen interventions resulting in office staff having to redo lot of the paperwork
I understand that home health nurses are swamped with paperwork. Yet, it makes NO SENSE to put off paperwork for a month or two when it will be even more time consuming to try to figure out what was done during home visit. It would appear that the most effective and fastest way to do this isduring pt visit or right after while all info is still fresh. This would likely reduce many errors in documentation.
- Submitting late paperwork is very unprofessional, irresponsible, and potentially dangerous. I thought that nurses, in general, are very professional and responsible. Am I wrong to assume such a thing?
I am really just looking for a way to get nurses to submit paperwork on time. What can I do or say to make that happen? It does not seem that paying extra money will do the trick since they do not care to get paid for a few months anyways ....
Finally, I was told this is how things are in homehealth and have always been so (chronically late paperwork & poor documentation). I refuse to believe that this is how it should be. There really must be an alternative because since when should we accept mediocrity and half done jobs?
Thanks for any help you can offer!
Best to all