Supplies

[muirite]

My mom has a home health nurse for wound care post surgery 2x day. Is it normal not to bring anything outside of paperwork for a new patient. The nurse had a business card and paperwork. I had to use the first aid kit from the house and the kit from my car. Is this normal?

The company said I could go to CVS to buy stuff. Her copay is like 500 dollars per week. I thought that supplies would be included.

[toomuchbaloney]

One of the Home Care companies that I worked for required photo documentation of all wounds on a weekly basis or more often if significant change was noted by the RN.

The staff were provided cell phones by the company and we were to use the cameras included on the phone. The patients signed a photo consent at SOC or when they developed a wound. The photos were uploaded from the phones by the "clerk" and placed in the EMR with appropriate dates, times, and other identifiers when the nurses made their weekly mandatory office visit. We came in, dropped our phones with the clerk, went about our business in the office (meetings, restock supplies, etc) and then picked the phones up on our way out. easy schmeazy