HH COPs, Survey Protocols and the Interpretive Guidelines

Course Code: REL-PAC-0-HHCSPIG

Hours: 0.75

Type: Online Course

Content Expiration Date: 11/30/2027

Learning Objectives:
Describe the Home Health CoPs and survey protocols.
Identify the most commonly cited CoP standards or G-Tags for home health agencies.
Explain how to help prevent CoP deficiencies in home health care.

Outline:
Section 1: Introduction

About This Course

Learning Objectives

Section 2: Home Health CoPs and the Survey Process

Conditions of Participation

CoP Sections

Survey Protocols

Survey Process

Survey Types

Citation Overview

Deficiency Types

Review

Summary

Section 3: Interpretive Guidelines for Frequently Cited G-Tags

Interpretive Guidelines

G446 Patient Has the Right to Be Advised of Contact Info for Agencies

G536 POC Includes Review of Current Medications

G574 Components of Plan of Care

G580 Drugs Treatment Services Administered Only as Ordered by Physician

G590 Promptly Alert Relevant Physician or Provider of Changes

G608 Services Are Coordinated to Meet Patient Needs

G682 Precautions to Prevent Transmission of Infections and Communicable Diseases

G798 Aide Assignment and Duties

Review

Summary

Section 4: The Successful Home Health Survey

Survey Preparation

Utilizing Reports

Accessible Information

Review

Summary

Section 5: Conclusion

Course Summary

Course Contributor

References

Instructor: Tameka N. Warren, MSN, RN, CLC

Tameka N. Warren, MSN, RN, CLC, earned her Bachelor and Master of Science in Nursing degrees from Indiana University School of Nursing at IUPUI, and her Associate of Science in Nursing from Ivy Tech College. She has over 19 years of nursing experience in public health, regulation, home health, leadership, education, maternal child community health, and long-term care environments. Tameka has served as a leader in home healthcare practices, quality improvement, and education as a community health nurse and a Public Health Nurse Surveyor (Home Health & Hospice) certified by CMS for a State Agency. She has served as a maternal and infant mortality advocate in managing home visiting services, supporting legislation to improve maternal child care in diverse communities, and as an ALPP Certified Lactation Counselor. She has also served as an Adjunct Clinical Professor to further awareness about the importance of community health nursing. Tameka’s passion is to serve the most vulnerable populations affected by health disparities and to inspire a new generation of nurses to do the same successfully.

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Course Delivery Method and Format
Asynchronous Distance Learning with interactivity which includes quizzes with questions/answers, and posttests.