The Educated AF Hospice Nurse

In this book you will find the following:

Documentation Best Practices

1. Documentation Hacks
2. How to spend less time on charting.*Tips on documenting at the bedside*

Documenting Format

1. ULTIMATE HACK "Patient Cheat Sheet."
2. Example IDT Note
3. Example RECERT Note
4. Example Admission Note
5. Example Death Note
6. Example Respite Note
7. Example Continuous Care Note

Painting the Picture-signs and symptoms of each diagnosis with SOAP format charting

1. Heart Failure
2. Alzheimer's/Dementia
3. Cancer
4. Debility
5. Renal Failure
6. Liver Failure
7. CVA
8. COPD
9. Parkinson's
10. Protein Calorie Malnutrition
11. Senile Degeneration of the Brain
12. Atherosclerosis
13. Neurological Disorders And more...

Charting Tools

1. Duties of the Hospice Chaplain and Hospice Social Worker
2. Palliative Care vs Hospice Care
3. My Version of the PPS Scale
4. Pressure Sore Scale
5. BMI Calculator
6. MMSE Scale
7. FAST Scale
8. NYHA Scale
9. Signs and Symptoms of Pain
10. ADLS *I-ADLS
11. Pain medications
12. Signs and Symptoms of Death and Dying
13. Examples of Comparative Data