This customizable document, Ongoing Assessment, is taken from MCN Healthcare’s Hospice Policy and Procedure Manual. For more than 20 years, MCN has been the health care industry’s leading provider of policy and procedure templates, forms, competencies and other compliance tools.

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	PURPOSE: To provide guidelines for further assessment of patients during ongoing care. POLICY: The patient's prognosis determines the scope and intensity of ongoing Hospice patient assessments, diagnoses, condition, need for care, treatment and services, response to previous care, treatment and services and the care, treatment and services setting. PROCEDURE: During each home visit, Hospice staff will reevaluate the patient according to the problems identified during the initial visit and afterwards. The RN will assess each patient on each visit, minimally for: Pain, including the origin,...
Second excerpt:
	...condition, level of deterioration Changes in patients' diagnoses/prognosis Changes in patients' care environment or support systems The Hospice interdisciplinary team uses the reassessments to review and revise the plan of care, which includes current problems and needs. This helps to meet goals and outcomes. Based upon the findings of the reassessment, the interdisciplinary team may discuss with and forward to the physician a request for change/verbal orders. The...