TX Hospice HCSSA Licensing Rules

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: Administrators; 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.