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Adimited and Discharge
Adimited and Discharge
Documentation Procedure
PREP. By habtamu.
Bsc. Nurse
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Learning Objectives
Describe the Basics of Patient admission & discharge Procedures
Identify Policies and procedures of admission
Delivering Relevant Patients Record to Appropriate Destination
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Hospital Admission
Admission
• It is a formal process whereby a person is
accepted by a hospital for the purpose of
hospital treatment as an inpatient.
• Admitted patient: is defined as a person
who meets the criteria for admission to the
admission category and care type
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-Admission processing,
-physician time/visit,
practitioner.
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management
assessed or diagnosed
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Note:
• Admission categories and classes for
additional criteria specific to each admission
type.
• One of the following criteria related to
severity of illness and intensity of service
will usually be present to warrant
admission.
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Severity of illness
_Emergency admission
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Elective admissions
illness,
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Emergency admissions
treatment
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Admission policy
safe,
adequate and continuing care across
health delivery contexts and to ensuring the
effective use of resources.
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Admission policies should include at
least the following elements:
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Checking client identity
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The patient identification data may
include:
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_alias(nickname),
• Wristbands
be cost-effective
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Purpose of checking patient’s
identity
• To avoid patient misidentification. Throughout
the health-care industry, the failure to correctly
identify patients continues to result in:
_medication errors,
_ transfusion errors,
_testing errors,
misidentification.
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_discharge diagnosis,
_condition at discharge,
_admission and discharge dates and
_other financial information related to
the inpatient services offered.
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Admission/Discharge Register
_ Identification,
_ Admission,
_Provider initiated HIV testing and counseling
(PIHTC), _Discharge and finance information.
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• Identification includes: Medical Record
Number (MRN), Age, and Sex, woreda / sub-
city.
• Admission includes: Date of Admission,
Admission diseases classification (HMIS
diagnosis)
• PIHTC includes: HIV test offered, HIV test
performed and HIV test result
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History and physical examination
recording form/patient form
achievements.
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All progress notes should include:
• A client’s progress towards goals identified in
Individual Plans.
• Level of support provided by staff.
• Referrals made.
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Important Points Regarding Progress
Notes
• Clients personal file notes including progress
notes are legal documents.
• So , it should be kept confidential.
on the program.
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Nursing Process Forms
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• Reason for referral : (Discussed )?
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Delivering Relevant Patients Record
to Appropriate Destination
• Note date and time
• Spell correctly
• Write legibly
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General Rules for Recording & reporting
♦ Spelling: Be sure that the patient's name,
hospital number and the ward is spelled
correctly , complete address and telephone
number, if any.
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Monitoring and Updating Patient Information during patients hospital stay
completeness
Data Completeness:
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– At Health Administrative unit
filled
boundary
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Timeliness
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Basic hospital statistics for inpatient services
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Example
• In June, a hospital has discharged 2,086
patients (including deaths, but excluding
newborns).
• Their combined inpatient service days
were 13 654 days.
• Using the above formula, the average
length of stay of these patients was:
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= 13654
2086
= 6.54 or 6.5 days
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Bed occupancy rate
24 hour period.
given period.
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Formula
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Example
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13,250
___________x 100 88.3%
500x30
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Case fatality rate
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Identifying Patient Medical Record Location
• Reading assignments
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Apply Discharge and clearance
procedures
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Discharging a Patient
• Discharging:
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Indications for discharge:
• Death
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Discharging a patient against medical advice (AMA)
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Patient leave
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Leave vs. transfer
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Example
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have elapsed.
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DISCHARGE CRITERIA
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Completing Discharge Summaries
• Patient identification
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Verifying Medical Records for Completeness for discharged patient
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• The clerk then sorts the forms into the correct order
(if they are not already sorted).
• In the case of new patient the forms are attached to
a medical record folder with a clip or fastener.
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Recording Information From Discharge
Summary for Follow Up and Appointment
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Policies of discharge
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Summary of policy
discharge.
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1. Effective communication
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Returning Patient Document to MRU
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Archive and Destruction of Patient Records
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Destruction:
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IPD ADMISSION/DISCHARGE REGISTER
• Archival procedures
should be observed.
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Routine observation chart
• Archival procedures
• Archival procedures
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Checking client identity during discharging
(Group work)
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Compiling Admission and discharge Reports
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Summary
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practice in place.
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Completing Billing and Other Required
Clearances
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Why perform billing and coding audits
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Improved relations between HIM/billing staff and physicians
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Improved data quality overall
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Correct reimbursement to the organization
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