Individualizing Resident Care NAB Approved | 24 CEUs including 12 Ethics hrs
Descriptions for each day are below.
Pressure Ulcers & Skin Care NAB Approved | 8 CEUs including 4 Ethics hrs
This course will review regulatory requirements concerning pressure ulcers and skin care. Topics include evaluation; staging; prevention; monitoring; treatment; the difference between pressure ulcers and non-pressure ulcer related wounds dressing and care; end-of-life and unavoidability of development of ulcers; advance directives and choice of involvement in treatment; types and scales versus skin assessments; pressure redistribution; nutrition and how in impacts the individual.
Quality Management NAB Approved | 8 CEUs including 4 Ethics hrs
This course provides a historical perspective on the OBRA 87 mandate that each nursing facility 'provide care and services to attain or maintain the highest practicable physical, mental and psychosocial well being of each resident', and demonstrates how nursing homes achieve better clinical outcomes when care delivery systems are individualized. We will look specifically at leadership and workplace practices to identify essential practices of exemplary leaders and key practices that contribute to low turnover: the importance of individualized care to good clinical outcomes, focus on concrete leadership and workplace practices that allow facilities to provide individualized care, stabilizing staffing that builds relationships leading to consistency in care and the result of a positive impact on staff, residents and families.
Restraint Reduction NAB Approved | 8 CEUs including 4 Ethics hrs
What qualifies as a restraint? What are the risks or benefits for using restraints as accident prevention or care convenience? This course will identify and review CMS regulations and guidelines for clarity and intent as related to restraint use in resident care; identify and review prohibited restraint use and viable alternatives that allow the reduction or elimination of restraints, falls and accidents; and emphasize the roles of the Administrator, DON and Medical Director in working with facility staff to implement necessary changes in resident care relating to safety, security and fall and accident prevention.