Course Code: REL-PAC-0-TXHHCSSALR
Hours: 2
Type: Online Course
Content Expiration Date: 4/30/2026
Learning Objectives:
Summarize the initial and comprehensive assessment of a hospice.
Describe a hospice interdisciplinary team, plan of care, and coordination of services.
Distinguish between hospice core services and non-core services as well as the qualifications for professionals providing these services.
Discuss hospice organization and administration of services.
Explain hospice services for inpatient units and care to clients in skilled nursing and other healthcare facilities.
Outline:
Section 1: Introduction
About This Course
Learning Objectives
Section 2: Subchapter H, Divisions 1, 2, and 3
General Provisions
Initial Assessment
Comprehensive Assessment
Review
Update and Outcome Measures
Interdisciplinary Team
Plan of Care and Review
Coordination of Services
Review
Summary
Section 3: Subchapter H, Divisions 4 and 5
Provision of Core Services
Physician and Nursing Services
Medical Social Services
Counseling Services
Non-Core Services
Aide Services
Aide Qualifications
Homemaker Services and Qualifications
State Medicaid Personal Care Benefit
Review
Summary
Section 4: Subchapter H, Division 6
Organization and Administration of Services
Licensed Person, Governing Body, and Administrator
Infection Control Program
Management Responsibility and Background Checks
Alternate Delivery Sites
Staff Training and Medical Director
Review
Discharge or Transfer of Care
Drugs, Biologicals, Supplies, and DME
Short-Term Inpatient Care
Review
Summary
Section 5: Subchapter H, Division 7 and 8
Inpatient Unit Staffing
Inpatient Physical Environment
Restraint or Seclusion
Care for Residents of Other Inpatient Facilities
Review
Summary
Section 6: Conclusion
Course Summary
Course Contributor
References
Instructor: Edward Bartels, RN, BSN, MICN
Ed has 30 plus years of nursing experience with clinical roles in trauma, emergency, critical care, skilled nursing, behavioral health, occupational health, home care, and is a certified clinical nursing instructor in North Carolina. Ed served as Director of Nursing for rural emergency services and physician practices. Ed earned his Bachelor of Science in Nursing from the University of North Carolina, Greensboro. Ed retired from the U.S. Coast Guard with 34 years served.
Target Audience:
The target audience for this course is: Administration; in the following settings: Hospice.
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Course Delivery Method and Format
Asynchronous Distance Learning with interactivity which includes quizzes with questions/answers, and posttests.