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Improving the Accuracy of Code Status Documentation in Home Care.
Home Healthcare Now 2024 March
Advance care planning discussions require specialized skills to elicit goals and preferences from patients contending with life-limiting illness. Documentation forms which include Health Care Proxies, Medical Orders for Life Sustaining Treatments, or Physician Orders for Life Sustaining Treatments are meant to accompany patients through every transition of care. However, they are often forgotten between the hospital and the home setting. Home care clinicians have the obligation to ensure all providers involved in the patient's care are made aware of their code status and goals of care. Consequently, home care clinicians need education about advance care planning to support patients in achieving their care goals as they transition from hospital to home. This quality improvement project implemented three consecutive interventions including reminding clinicians to review code status orders, applying short educational interventions at daily nursing huddles via email, and finally, administering primary palliative education classes for home care clinicians. The purpose was to guide home care nurses in reviewing and reaffirming code status orders and advance care documentation at the initiation of the home care episode and to improve the consistency and accuracy of code status documentation at the transition of care. After implementing the interventions to improve code status documentation, compliance improved from 8% to 100% in a 10-month period.
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