Nursing Category

     

  Criteria in the nursing category concern resident assessments and plans of care as well as the quality of nursing care provided by a nursing home. A nursing home must ensure that it has qualified and trained nursing staff to ensure that each resident receives necessary care and services to attain or maintain the highest practicable physical, mental and psychosocial well-being, in accordance with a comprehensive assessment and plan of care.

    The following federal regulation revisions and F numbers apply to surveys started on or after November 28, 2017.

  1. The facility conducts, initially and periodically, a comprehensive, accurate, standardized reproducible assessment of each resident’s functional capacity from direct observation and communication with the resident and direct care staff. (42CFR 483.20(b)(1)(2)(i)(iii) F 636 )
  2. The facility provides a prompt assessment after residents experience a significant change in physical or mental condition. (42CFR 483.20(b)(2)(ii) F 637 )
  3. A facility must maintain all resident assessments completed within the previous 15 months in the resident’s active record and use the results of the assessments to develop, review and revise the resident’s comprehensive care plan. (42CFR 483.20(d) F 639 )
and/or;
The facility develops and implements comprehensive person-centered care plans for each resident that include measurable objectives and time frames to meet each resident's medical, nursing and mental and psychosocial needs which describe services to be furnished to attain or maintain residents highest practical well-being and assess resident or resident representative goals for desired outcomes. (42CFR 483.21(b)(1) F 656 )
  4. The facility ensures that each resident receives and the facility provides the necessary care and services to attain or maintain the highest practicable physical, mental and psychosocial well-being in accordance with the comprehensive assessment and plan of care. (42CFR 483.24 F 675)
and/or;
The facility ensures that residents receive treatment and care in accordance with professional standards of practice, the comprehensive person-centered care plan, and the residents’ choices (42CFR 483.25 F 684)
and/or;
The facility ensures that pain management is provided to residents who require such services, consistent with professional standards of practice, the comprehensive person-centered care plan, and the residents’ goals and preferences. (42CFR 483.25(k) F 697)
and/or;
The facility ensures that residents who require dialysis receive such services, consistent with professional standards of practice, the comprehensive person-centered care plan, and the residents’ goals and preferences. (42CFR 483.25(l) F 698)
and/or;
Resident who displays or are diagnosed with dementia, receive the appropriate treatment and services to attain or maintain his or her highest practicable physical, mental, and psychosocial well-being. (42CFR 483.40(b)(3) F 744)
  5. The facility provides the appropriate treatment and services to ensure residents’ abilities in activities of daily living do not diminish unless circumstances of the individual's clinical condition demonstrate that diminution was unavoidable. (42CFR 483.24(a)(1)(b)(1)-(5)(i)-(iii) F 676 )
  6. The facility ensures residents receive care to prevent pressure ulcers unless resident's clinical condition demonstrates that they were unavoidable and residents with pressure ulcers receive treatment and services to promote healing, prevent infection and prevent new ulcers from developing. (42CFR 483.25(b)(1)(i)(ii) F 686 )
  7. The facility ensures that; residents who enter the facility without limited range of motion do not experience reduction in range of motion unless the resident’s clinical condition demonstrates that a reduction in range of motion is unavoidable; residents with limited range of motion receive appropriate treatment and services to increase range of motion and/or to prevent further decrease in range of motion; residents with limited mobility receive appropriate services, equipment, and assistance to maintain or improve mobility with the maximum practicable independence unless a reduction in mobility is demonstrably unavoidable. (42CFR 483.25(c)(1)-(3) F688)
  8. The facility ensures that residents continent of bladder and bowel on admission receive services and assistance to maintain continence unless his or her clinical condition is or becomes such that continence is not possible to maintain. The facility ensures residents incontinent of bladder receive appropriate treatment and services to prevent urinary tract infections and to restore as much normal bladder function as possible, specifically not catheterizing residents incontinent of urine who enter the facility without an indwelling catheter and assessing residents who enter with an indwelling catheter for removal of the catheter as soon as possible. (42CFR 483.25(e)(1)-(3)) F 690 )
  9. Resident maintain acceptable parameters of nutritional status, such as usual body weight or desirable body weight range and electrolyte balance, unless a resident’s clinical condition demonstrates that this is not possible or resident preferences indicate otherwise and are offered sufficient fluid intake to maintain proper hydration and health and a therapeutic diet when there is a nutritional problem and the health care provider orders a therapeutic diet (42CFR 483.25(g)(1)-(3) F692)
  10. The facility ensures that its medication error rates are not 5 percent or greater. (42CFR 483.45(f)(1) F 759 )

    The following federal regulation revisions and F numbers apply to previous surveys before November 28, 2017.

  1. The facility conducts initially and periodically a comprehensive, accurate, standardized reproducible assessment of each resident's functional capacity. (42CFR 483.20(b)(1) F 272 )
  2. The facility provides a comprehensive assessment of a resident within 14 days of a significant change in the resident’s physical or mental condition. (42CFR 483.20(b) (2) (ii) F 274 )
  3. The facility develops, reviews and revises comprehensive care plans for each resident based on resident assessments that include measurable objectives and timetables to meet each resident's medical, nursing, mental and psychosocial needs and describe services that are to be furnished to attain and maintain the resident’s highest practical physical, mental and psychosocial well-being. (42CFR 483.20(d), 483.20(k)(1) F 279 )
  4. The facility ensures that each resident receives and the facility provides the necessary care and services to attain or maintain the highest practicable physical, mental and psychosocial well-being in accordance with the comprehensive assessment and plan of care. (42CFR 483.25 F 309 )
  5. The facility ensures resident abilities in activities of daily living do not diminish unless circumstances of the individual's clinical condition demonstrate that diminution was unavoidable. (42CFR 483.25(c) F 310 )
  6. The facility ensures residents receive care to prevent pressure ulcers unless resident's clinical condition demonstrates that they were unavoidable and residents with pressure ulcers receive treatment and services to promote healing, prevent infection and prevent new ulcers from developing. (42CFR 483.25(c) F 314 )
  7. The facility ensures residents incontinent of bladder receive appropriate treatment and service to prevent urinary tract infections and to restore as much normal bladder function as possible. (42CFR 483.25(d) (2) F 316 )
  8. The facility ensures residents with limited range of motion receives appropriate treatment and services to increase range of motion and/or to prevent further decrease in range of motion. (42CFR 483.25(e) (2) F 318 )
  9. The facility ensures each resident maintains acceptable parameters of nutritional status, such as body weight and protein levels, unless the resident's clinical condition demonstrates that this is not possible, and receives a therapeutic diet when there is a nutritional problem. (42CFR 483.25(i) F 325 )
  10. The facility provides each resident with sufficient fluid intake to maintain proper hydration and health. (42CFR 483.25 (j) F 327 )
  11. The facility is free of significant medication errors. (42CFR 483.25(m)(1) F 332 )
     

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