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Medical Records Retained for
5 yrs From Discharge
3 yrs after Resident reaches legal age
Refer Residents with lost or damaged dentures for dental Services
within 3 days
Must promptly, within 3 days, refer residents with lost or damaged dentures for dental services. If a referral does not occur within 3 days, the facility must provide documentation of what they did to ensure the resident could still eat and drink adequately while awaiting dental services and the extenuating circumstances that led to the delay.
PRN orders for psychotic drugs are limited to
14 days
Facilities must post the Nursing staff data and retain for
minimum of 18 month
Dental services
The facility must assist residents in obtaining routine and 24-hour emergency dental care.
Frequency of Physicians visits
At least once every 30 days
for the first 90 days
at least once every 60 days thereafter
Significant Weight Loss
1 Month 5% or greater
3 Months 7.5% or greater
6 Months 10% or greater
Unstageable Pressure Ulcer
Obscured by slough or eschar
If the slough or eschar is removed a stage 3 or stage 4 will be revealed
Stage 4 Pressure Ulcer
Exposed or directly palpable fascia, muscle tendon, ligament, cartilage or bone in the ulcer
Stage 3 Pressure ulcer
Skin loss
Slough &/or Eschar may be visible
Stage 2 Pressure Ulcer
Skin Loss
Exposed dermis
Stage 1 Pressure injury
intact skin
Venous or Stasis Ulcer
Open lesion
Diabetic Neuropathic Ulcer
Requires that the Resident be diagnosed w/ diabetes Mellitus & have peripheral Neuropathy
Arterial Ulcer
Inadequate Blood Supply to the extremity may initially present as intermittent claudication
Palliative Care
Never Cure/Comfort care
Optimizes quality of life. preventing & treating suffering