{"ref":"OH-HSP-IDG-03","title":"Coordination of Care, Physician Orders and Verbal Orders","category":"Hospice care","summary":"Sets out the Agency's system of communication and integration across disciplines, settings and outside providers, who may sign medical orders and order drugs, how nurses receive, record and authenticate verbal orders (with the Agency's own signature time frame), care transitions, and coordination with non-hospice providers under Ohio Medicaid.","inShort":["Only a physician, an advanced practice registered nurse or a physician assistant acting within their scope may give orders.","Only licensed nurses take verbal orders. Aides and volunteers never take orders.","Write the order down, read it back to the prescriber, and sign it right away.","The prescriber signs every verbal order within 14 days.","When a patient goes to a hospital or facility, share the plan of care and medicines the same day."],"primaryCitation":"OAC 3701-19-17(C)","citations":["OAC 3701-19-17(C)","OAC 3701-19-08(E)(7)(c)","OAC 3701-19-11(C)(6)","OAC 3701-19-12(C), (E)","OAC 3701-19-23(B)","ORC 3712.06(C)(1)","OAC 5160-56-04(F)","OAC 5160-56-05(G)","OAC 5160-56-06(I)","OAC 3701-62-09"],"federalCitations":["42 CFR §418.56(e)","42 CFR §418.106(b)","42 CFR §418.104(a)(7), (b)","42 CFR §418.100(e)","42 CFR §418.108(c)"],"surveyorAsks":["Who may sign medical orders for your patients, and who may order drugs?","Walk me through how a nurse takes a verbal order, and show me one that was signed by the prescriber."],"forms":[],"headings":["Terms of Reference","1. Purpose","2. Scope","3. Definitions","4. Policy Statement (OAC 3701-19-17(C); 42 CFR §418.56(e))","5. System of Communication and Integration","6. Who May Order","7. Receiving Verbal Orders","8. Coordination With Non-Hospice Providers","9. Care Transitions","10. Responsibilities","11. Records and Compliance Monitoring","12. Staff Training","13. References","14. Related Policies and Forms","15. Approval","16. Revision History"],"version":"1.0","sample":false,"pack":"oh-hospice","state":"Ohio","service":"Hospice","guides":[{"path":"/guides/hospice-policies/","h1":"What policies are required for hospice?"},{"path":"/guides/hospice-conditions-of-participation/","h1":"Hospice Conditions of Participation: which policies each one needs"}],"agency":{"name":"Sample Agency","legalName":"Sample Agency, LLC","logo":null}}