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Hospice organizations should work with the nursing home to collaborate the care. Example:If patient's bath is routinely given on MWF at the facility, a CNA can be sent on Tu & Thur or Tu, Thur, Sat & Sun to give baths, feed pt, etc. The RN Case Manager orders how often she feels the CNA is needed. An incident report should be filled out on any hospice patient, for ANY injury, by the facility (for their use & using their unique form) and by the hospice provider (for their use & their unique form). You were correct in going out to access the wound of the CHF pt & I'm sure the facility appreciated your assessment. If the wound was not related to the patient's hospice diagnosis, the facility should be responsible for contacting the patient's attending physician to obtain orders for wound care & carrying out the orders for such. The blood sugars are not related to a diagnosis of Dementia and should be addressed by the facility.

As a hospice nurse, I've had many patient's who do not have a 24 hr/day caregiver. This may be a requirement of "some" hospice organizations.

I began my ASN at Middle Ga College, received majority of core classes there, (had super instructors for the core classes) attended the nursing program there for one quarter, transferred to Macon State & now, I am a VERY PROUD graduate of MSC. MSC had a larger attendance, larger & more modern class rooms, more equipment to educate/train students with, choice of day or night classes, more facility choices to do clinicals, more instructors to chose from, classes that were not offered at MGC, etc.:balloons:

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