Episode of Care

[Esme12, ASN, BSN, RN]

desjam said:

I will try and make it clearer, you are looking after a patient and during the process of care you noticed that the patient is a high risk fall, what action and evaluation would you put in place. I understand that this patient might need a medication review. the episode of care in this contest is that you were walking a patient you are caring for and notice he is a high risk of fall. what do you write to make a 1000 word out of this episode.

You start at the beginning...the patient history, diganoses, meds, labs assessment. Describe the disease processes in detail and how they may or may not contribute to the issue at hand.

I have not seen this worred this way I would seek clarification from your program as to the expectations for this paper....to me it sounds like a case study. Maybe I am just obtuse but I don't understand what is needed

[Esme12, ASN, BSN, RN]

This is a new term for me....is this a case study? What is an "episode of care"? I know in the physician world an "episode of care" is the care of a patient from the beginning to end and is all encompassing

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Episode of Care – Definition

• All clinically related services for one patient for a discrete diagnostic condition from the onset of symptoms until treatment is complete.

• One episode only pertains to one patient, but one patient can be in multiple episodes

[Ginger's Mom, MSN, RN]

What is the course and what context is the "episode of care" noted ? I did a quick Google search and there is so much information.

[guest2210]

Episode of care is used in some EMR programs to group all inpatient or outpatient visits under one specific diagnosis. For example, a patient is diagnosed as "pregnant" on an initial OB office visit. All related appointments, i.e u/s, labs, etc. are linked to the patient's pregnancy episode, generally lasting until the patient's 6 week post delivery office visit.

Another example would be a worker's comp injury. All visits, PT, surgeries would all be linked to the worker's comp injury/diagnosis.

[LadyFree28, BSN, LPN, RN]

i will try and make it clearer, you are looking after a patient and during the process of care you noticed that the patient is a high risk fall, what action and evaluation would you put in place. i understand that this patient might need a medication review. the episode of care in this contest is that you were walking a patient you are caring for and notice he is a high risk of fall. what do you write to make a 1000 word out of this episode.

How about writing the background of the pt first; for your example risk for falls would have the assessment, which would include the pt's background; the diagnosis and goals, the interventions and the rationale behind the interventions, and evaluation of the pt (if possible).

Hopefully that would net 1,000 words.

[roser13, ASN, RN]

Could you explain a little further what you mean by "episode of care"?

Is there a specific diagnosis for which you are researching methods of treatment?

[/username, BSN, RN]

If I'm understanding it correctly based on what you've written, it could be about something you have done in clinical.

[desjam]

I will try and make it clearer, you are looking after a patient and during the process of care you noticed that the patient is a high risk fall, what action and evaluation would you put in place. I understand that this patient might need a medication review. the episode of care in this contest is that you were walking a patient you are caring for and notice he is a high risk of fall. what do you write to make a 1000 word out of this episode.

[Lamore M]

I need help with writing my episode of care.