Documenting Cues and Skilled Services

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As therapists, we may think that is skilled, and many times it is skilled, but can nursing also provide verbal cues?  Yes, they can.  They can provide tactile cues.  It will be very important any time you are using a cueing strategy that you identify why you are using that cueing strategy.  An example seen frequently in notes is "Bed mobility training, performed supine to sit with mod assist" .  Nursing can do bed mobility training and they can certainly assist a patient to move from supine to sit with mod assist.  A better statement might be “Tactile and verbal cues 50% of the time for logroll to maintain neutral spine and avoid counter-rotation of the lumbar spine.”  Another explanation of verbal cues physical therapists and physical therapist assistants may frequently use would be to have “accurate hand or foot placement during a mobility activity” or “for visual recognition of architectural barriers and verbal cues to successfully navigate around them.”