Does your Home Health agency have admissions nurses

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... Or, are each of you expected to do admissions / OASIS to home health?

At my agency, we do Resumptions, Admissions, and Recerts ... and revisits

Might see up to 8 pts a day, if we're busy (and we usually are)

We have to take call 2x per week.

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At my agency, RNs can do everything- SOC, ROC, REC, D/Cs and routines. We also have LPNs to do the routines. If the case has PT or ST ordered and no nursing, those disciplines will do the OASIS. Our on-call rotation varies based on how many RNs we have working. All full time, part time, and PRN RNs are in the weekly on-call rotation.

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The home health agency I work for has several branches in different locations.

Our office does not have an admission RN. We also do not employ LPNs. Our PT's do not do their own OASIS admissions either, RN's do those as well.

Some of the other branches do have admission nurses. They are paid the same as the other case managers and take call rotation also. We even have some dedicated "open for PT" nurses in other branches. Unsure how many admissions they do in a day.

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The home health agency I work for has several branches in different locations.

Our office does not have an admission RN. We also do not employ LPNs. Our PT's do not do their own OASIS admissions either, RN's do those as well.

Some of the other branches do have admission nurses. They are paid the same as the other case managers and take call rotation also. We even have some dedicated "open for PT" nurses in other branches. Unsure how many admissions they do in a day.

I think it would be nice to have 'just OASIS' nurses for the admissions-- since learning how to answer those questions requires much extra training and experience --that is to get it like the agency wants it.

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In my opinion and experince as a RN case manager, the case manager (RN or PT) is the best positioned for performing the admission assessment and developing the POC. It's better for patient care and OASIS based on patient investment, continuity and routinely seeing patients from SOC to DC improves perspective of those two points in time.

Admission and OASIS are not something to avoid, they're both learnable and have a significant impact on patient care.

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