1. Welcome to the Champ Software Topical Webinar Series!
Use of the Omaha System in Nightingale Notes to Create Flow Sheets
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2. Agenda: Omaha System Refresher Flow Sheet to Pathway
Tips on Building your Pathway

3. Omaha System Reminders!
My Reminders
Standardized taxonomy or language designed to document client care from admission to discharge.
Three Components:
Assessment component: Problem Classification Scheme
Intervention component: Intervention Scheme
Outcomes component: Problem Rating Scale for Outcomes

4. Problem Classification Scheme
The Problem Classification Scheme provides a structure, terms, and system of cues and clues for a standardized assessment of individuals, families, and communities.
Area of Focus

5. Intervention Scheme Your Actions
The Intervention Scheme is designed to describe and communicate multidisciplinary practice, practice that is intended to prevent illness, improve or restore health, decrease deterioration, and/or provide comfort before death.
Your Actions

6. Problem Rating Scale for Outcomes
The Problem Rating Scale for Outcomes is a method to evaluate client progress throughout the period of service.
Outcomes

7. Creating a Pathway Three steps to creating a new pathway:
What is the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Step?
Identify the client population/group (title of the pathway)
Choose only problems that are most commonly experienced by that
population.
Add typical interventions related to those problems.
Define your guides (assessment / flow sheet data to be collected)

8. Why are Pathways Effective/Useful?
Represent generic client populations that you serve.
Articulate best practice based on state/program requirements and/or standards of care.
Effective tools to train or guide staff on process or procedure.
Document data consistently.
Number One Reason to use Pathways?
Outcomes!

9. Flow Sheets
Documentation tool used outside of narrative documentation to quickly document care for a client population. Definition: a patient care record that documents interventions through the use of check marks and brief notations.
Question: How do we recreate the simplicity of a flow sheet in NN using the Omaha System?

10. Flow Sheet vs Pathway Documentation using check marks and brief notes.
Area for brief notes

11. Omaha System Pathways
Great marriage of the convenience of a flow sheet but utilizing a standardized language.
Why is use of a standardized language important?
Outcomes!
Ability to report data in a meaningful way in comparison to other users of a standardized language.
Ability to share information with other providers of care through HIE’s.
Through Big Data..our data will dictate future practice!

12. Pathways as Flow Sheets

13. Pathways as Flow Sheets
Suggestions when Developing Pathways:
Try and group like interventions under one main Problem(Area of Focus)
If you or your agency wants to measure outcomes of some aspect of care remember you will need to pull it out as a separate problem
For all postpartum clients you assess their nutrition. Your agency wants you to track outcomes for nutrition. You would identify the problem of Postpartum and Nutrition.
Build answers or results into your guide
+nits / -nits
Low lead level (0-3) / Moderate lead level (3-4) / High lead level (5+)
Use terms such as normal vs abnormal; wnl
Include hints/suggestions within the guide as what narrative is expected
Monitor and identify changes in the following: Income, Education, Employment, Transportation, Living/resident status, Other (specify)

14. Creating a Pathway How do I find already existing Pathways?
Access Champ Software’s Pathways document within our Knowledge Base
- Minnesota Omaha System User Group website (careplans)
- New project by Karen Monsen and other creating evidence-based guidelines
Network with other users through our Listserv, User Group meetings or with a neighboring agency
Network with neighboring state agencies to split the task of creating pathways and then share them

15. Discussion / Questions / Comments?

16. Thank You for Participating & Attending Today!
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