KLQ727

KLQ727

home health/hospice - QAPI

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About KLQ727

KLQ727 has 35+ years experience and specializes in home health/hospice - QAPI.


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  1. GPS units - What's yours?

    Bought my daughters the Garmin Nuvi 200W for Christmas. No bells and whistles...just navigation. Very good price and they work really well. I have built-in GPS in my car and think theirs works even better! However....don't go to Circuit City...they a...
  2. Referral Question

    You may contact the physician and obtain orders. You may also suggest the patient contact the doctor and ask him to call you. Or tell his nurse that you will be calling for orders per their request to have your agancy. Either way is ok.
  3. suggestions for PDA ebook on meds

    check out some of the suggestions at this site http://nursing.about.com/od/nursingsoftware/f/pdasoftware.htm
  4. Home Health Payment/Reimbursement Help

    If you're setting up an intermittent visits - home health care company as opposed to providing private duty shift care in the home.... Reimbursement under medicare (PPS) basically is now based on an episode payment. In a quick nut shell... (and it's ...
  5. Responsibilities of Home Health Nurses

    Melissa, You can use information found on my sites: http://homehealth101.com http://housecalls-online.com (Please be sure to give credit to any of your sources and authors.) or you can PM me. Kathy Quan RN BSN PHN
  6. Know of any Home Health Nsg Magazine's?

    here's a couple of websites also: http://housecalls-online.com http://homehealth101.com Hope this helps
  7. Truth about Nursing diagnosis

    I'll let you all in on a little secret.... you really USE this process in Home Health Nursing and eveloping a plan of care for your patient. And I agree whole heartedly with the person who wrote that this helps you to develop critical thinking skill...
  8. ICD 9 codes

    This is a hotly debated item in our industry. There are a couple of list serves run by the Home Health Line group and this discussion is a constant factor. You may want to check these out if you need more data than you might acquire here. (PM me if y...
  9. Mo440

    Yes, that's true. There must be a diagnosis of trauma/burn to get the HHRG points. However, one point that many nurses forget is that on M0450... once a decub always a decub (unless grafted) and unless it's an open or troublesome decub they don't say...
  10. Researching smells

    Barbara, REFRESHING is all I can say!!! If we do it right in the first place, we don't have to spend hours and $$$$$$$ trying to cover it up. (novel idea, huh??) That goes for anything we do as nurses. I am sooooooo frustrated with management that al...
  11. Need info on missed visits please

    Our agency is JCAHO also, but it wasn't JCAHO who required the order for the missed visits. It was a Medicare Survey that dinged us for not having MD orders for missed visits. Documentation in the chart was needed to explain why the visit was missed...
  12. Looking for QA Tool for Chart Audite

    Look on my site http://housecalls-online.com on the Resources page. A very comprehensive form is posted there. Others are coming in and I'll post them as well. On the Links page, you'll find a link to HHAresources for Jared Nunez' page. He has posted...
  13. V Codes

    If you can get them to pay for one of Nancy McGuirre's upcoming V-code tele-conferences, it's well worth the $$$ and you can have as many people as you want listening in for the one fee. I had no "formal" training just what I had picked up over the ...
  14. V Codes

    I love your site and will place a link to it from mine. We all have the same idea, and networking is how we'll all survive! and hopefully retain some sanity. Yes, please add alink to my site on yours as well. Thanks.... and thanks for all of your eff...
  15. V Codes

    Hello, I just found this forum today. I work as a QI analyst in a home care agency in California. I also publish my own website designed to share ideas with other home health professionals. Recently I received 3 V code cheat sheets from peers and ha...