Admission assistive tool

Admission assistive tool: Summary of the projectKarley DanielNursing 495Ferris State University

Project overview

*Quick reference guide for Great Lakes Caring-Home Health admission clinicians to have to refer to.

*OASIS stands for Outcome and Assessment Information Set, Medicares required tool of assessment to ensure quality home care is being provided (Alster, Cushman, Ellenbecker, Samia 2007).

*Medicare measures and monitors these answers for reimbursement purposes and measures outcomes for Home Health agencies.

*Clinicians have to be able to answer these questions efficiently and appropriate for their patients, this tool will help guide them through this process. By setting up a more appropriate plan of care from the beginning, patients will have better outcomes.

* Evidence-based practice can serve a dual purpose for home healthcare (HHC): to improve patient care and to ensure appropriate reimbursement for home care agencies (Whittier 2008).

Project Goals

Project Objectives

Culture, Quality and Safety

Both risk management and quality management deal with changing behavior, prevention, focus on the customer and attention to outcomes (Yoder-Wise p. 404, 2014). The Admission Assistive Tool will help clinicians prevent adverse events by putting prevention and interventions into focus at each admission. 5Process, Progress, and Completion

Obstacles and ChallengesChallenges *Keeping on Timeline; keeping myself and other interdisciplinary team to follow timely schedule. *Continuing to remind and encourage clinicians to use tool during admission process will be a continuing challenge*Did not receive as much feedback on tool from the admitting clinicians as wanted; possibly not utilizing as much as planned

*Having all staff at team meeting; having to touch base with admitting clinicians whom missed meeting when tool was introduced and described to staff

Ethical and professional issues* The Admission Assistive Tool promotes and follows many of the American Nurses Association- Code of Ethics* (American Nurses Association 2014). *The tool will assist the nurse to Determines the appropriate delegation of task to consistent with the nurses obligation to provide optimum patient care. -Provision 4 *The nurse will be fulfilling the Responsibility to preserve safety and integrity, to maintain competency, and to continue personal and professional growth. -Provision 5*The nurse will be following the tool to promote interdisciplinary care for patients Collaborates with other health professionals and the public in promoting community, national and international efforts to meet health needs. -Provision 8

I did not find any ethical or professional issues during my project experience. The Admission Assistive Tool is meant to be put into place to better our patient outcomes. Taking quality measurements and performing quality control assure that quality requirements will be met (Heldman p.24, 2011). 8Lessons learned as project manager

* It is rewarding to see my Admission Assistance Tool be completed. It is a good feeling to know that I could be assisting my co-workers in helping our patients. * When producing your original project scope plan, continue to follow your timeline. Staying on task with timeline makes your project move along smoother-with less stress. * Interdisciplinary teams make projects so much better than tackling them on your own. * Budgets, plans, progress reports, and work packages are all important aspects in producing a project. * Interdisciplinary projects are a very important part of continuing the nursing profession.

References*Alster, K., Cushman, M., Ellenbecker, C., Samia, L. (2007). Chapter 13. Patient Safety and Quality in Home Health Care. Patient Safety and Quality: An Evidence-Based Handbook for Nurses. 2007. *American Nurses Association 2014. Code of Ethics. http://www.nursingworld.org/codeofethics*Heldman, K. (2011). Project management jump start (3rd ed.). Indianapolis, IN: Wiley Publishing, Inc*Yoder-Wise, P.S. (2011). Leading and managing in nursing (5th ed.). St Louis, MO: Mosby*Whittier, Sandra (2011). COMMENTARY: Home Healthcare Nursing and Evidence-Based Practice: A Call to Action. Volume 26 Number 5 Pages 322-324.