ADD AIDE CARE PLAN

In order to add the Aide Care Plan, you must be on the “Orders” tab in the Patient Encounter.  Click on the drop-down to the right of the 485 and choose "Add Aide Care Plan".

ADDING AIDE CARE PLAN ORDER

Enter the effective date of your Care Need and click “Save”.

Click on “Add Multiple Care Needs” to add Care Need.

Enter your “Start Date” and click on the drop-down to the right of “Select” to choose your discipline for HHA. Click on “Save”.

NOTE: For Careficient Agency Administrators, “Discipline Type” options can be set in Settings > Lookup Tables > Associate Support Tables > Discipline Type.

Choose your “Care Need(s)” and click on “Save”. 

NOTE: For Careficient Agency Administrators, “Care Needs” options can be set in Settings > Lookup Tables > Clinical Support Tables > Care Needs.

ADD GOAL

Click on  “Add Goal” 

Choose your goals and click on “Save”.   You can also search for specific wording in a goal as below.

NOTE: For Careficient Agency Administrators, click here to learn more about setting up Goals in the lookup tables. 

When adding goals, be sure to add the “Goal Status Code” by choosing the drop-down to the right of  “Select”.

ADD INTERVENTIONS

Click on  “Add Intervention” 

Choose your interventions and click on “Save”.   You can also search for specific wording in a goal as below.

NOTE: For Careficient Agency Administrators, click here to learn more about setting up Interventions in the lookup tables. 

You can add comments also in section 21 if needed. (These do not flow to the service notes)

PATIENT SPECIFIC GOALS

If you want to personalize the goals to be patient specific, you can click on the goals (orange in color) and edit it.  You will also notice a "Trash Can" to the right of the Care Needs.  Please advise your associates not to click on the trash can.  This should only be used if you accidentally added a goal prior to completing and approving your order, never when adding a new Care Need order where the goal automatically came forward from another order.  

Make the necessary changes and click "Save" when finished. 

PATIENT SPECIFIC INTERVENTIONS

If you want to personalize the interventions to be patient specific, you can click on the interventions (orange in color) and edit it.  You will also notice a "Trash Can" to the right of the Care Needs.  Please advise your associates not to click on the trash can.  This should only be used if you accidentally added an intervention prior to completing and approving your order, never when adding a new Care Need order where the intervention automatically came forward from another order.  

Make the necessary changes and click "Save" when finished. 

ADDING NEW / EDITING CARE NEEDS

Go to 'Add Aide Care Plan" from the drop down to the right of your new 485.

Enter your effective date for the first day of your new recertification period and/or order.

You can see that it will pull forward all Care Needs / Interventions / Goals that have not been ended prior to the start of the new 485.

To add new goals, click on the "Add Goal" link.

You will be able to add any new goals from here.  When you have finished adding your new goals, click "Save".  

NOTE:  Make sure you put the start date for your new goal or the system will assume the beginning of the cert/recert date.  You can edit goals here just like you would on the goals for the Start of Care. 

To add new interventions, click on the "Add Intervention" link.

You will be able to add any new interventions from here.  When you have finished adding your new interventions, click "Save".  

NOTE:  Make sure you put the start date for your new intervention or the system will assume the beginning of the cert/recert date.  

END GOALS

To end goals, click on the "edit" link below "Goals".  

To end a goal simply add an end date for when it needs to be ended.  Do not uncheck the goal to end it.  Click "Save" when you are finished.

You can see the alternate description under "Goal Description" if you initially made changes to the goal description, the alternate description displays in the “Goals Description” column. 

To see the original description, hover over the icon to the right of the Goal Description column. 

END INTERVENTIONS

To end interventions, click on the "edit" link below "Interventions".  

To end an intervention simply add an end date for when it needs to be ended.  Do not uncheck the intervention to end it.  Click "Save" when you are finished.

You can see the alternate description under "Goal Description" if you initially made changes to the goal description, the alternate description displays in the “Goals Description” column. 

To see the original description, hover over the icon to the right of the Goal Description column. 

END CARE NEED

To end a whole Care Need, you will need to put an end date on the Care Need itself as below.  This will not at this time end the interventions and goals.  We do have an enhancement coming for this but at this time, you will still need to end all the goals and interventions separately as well. 

As you can see here, the changes you made to this new Care Need ORDER, were updated.  

If you will notice below, the icon to the right of the intervention indicates that the intervention/goal was edited. Once an intervention/goal has been edited and/or documented on, you can no longer makes changes to it.