Hello Everyone,
I have a resident that was admitted to my facility on
01/08/2004. she utilized medicare benefits until 03/03/2004. She was
stable at that point. Since then she was picked back up by therapy on
03/15/2004 and they were seeing her 5xwk and she was showing s/s of UTI
and placed on antibiotic. That has since cleared up and was taken off
medicare on 04/19/2004. Now she is showing s/s of tremors and the MD
placed her on ativan 2mg IM prn for seizure activity. then on 05/03/2004
she had an elevation in her B/P and MD ordered nitropaste 1/2 inch q 6
hours and increased her klonopin also. her b/p has been stable since he
made the adjustments yesterday. MD progress notes state that resident
is going to continue to decline and since the new problems that arouse
family and MD in agreement not to send resident to hospital. She only
has 9 days left would you go ahead and place her back on medicare?
thanks,
Billie Stewart, RNAC
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