Managing new admits

[TigerxLiLy]

How do you guys manage new admits as in: sorting thru their H&P and coming up with skillable dxs amongst juggling your rugs meetings, certs, minutes, and assessments and careplans,etc??

Is you admission coordinator providing admission packets prior to entry?!

Most of our admits are coming around 3-6pm, and our admissions coordinator (lpn) usually doesn't know if she is "accepting" them until the last second- its so annoying.

[imkaren2]

As a rule only our admin and admission director can accept admissions, they accept them VERY quickly before someone else gets them!! I review online the preadmission screening, then when they are admitted, I look at the d/c summary sent from the hosp which gives the prim dx and a few others. I review the d/c summ and am usually able to put tog the whole pic for the dxs codes.

But the pre-admission screen will have given me the reason for admit to the hosp. The d/c summ will give you a good pic of why they went to the hosp and now why they are with you. If you aren't getting the d/c summ. keep after your admission director to call the hospital each time immediately after the pt is admitted and they don't come with it, right away. The hosptial has it, they can easily fax it.