Nursing Home Surveyors Look At Urinary Incontinence in Nursing Homes - Part 4
As mentioned in the other posts talking of this issue, CMS has guidance in the SOM for nursing home surveyors to follow. The third piece of the investigation is the review of the resident’s record and other facility documents. The nursing home surveyor will review the resident’s assessment, the history and physical and other portions of [...]
Nursing Home Surveyors Look At Urinary Incontinence in Nursing Homes - Part 3
In the previous posts we started talking about how nursing home and hospital surveyors investigate issues surrounding incontinence in nursing homes. I continue that discussion here.
Another element to investigations is interviews.
Interviews: During the review and investigation the surveyor will be conducting interviews with the resident, family or responsible party when possible. These interviews will help identify:
Involvement in [...]
Nursing Home Surveyors Look At Urinary Incontinence in Nursing Homes - Part 2
I mentioned in Part I that CMS has guidelines for the Nursing Home Surveyor. We started discussing these guidelines, and the list of actions CMS expects a surveyor to take when investigating urinary incontinence issues in a nursing home. The first of these expectations is the need to do observations in a nursing home.
During [...]