Members: $25 | Non-members: $50Continuing Education: 1.25 CE hours Recording Date: Sept. 19, 2024Duration: 75 minutesSpeaker: Jessie McGill, RN, BSN, RAC-MT, RAC-MTA Every October, nurse assessment coordinators (NACs) nervously anticipate what Resident Assessment Instrument (RAI) User’s Manual changes will impact their primary duties and workflows. Some years bring massive changes, which result in policy …
Discharge planning is an important and necessary process to ensure residents have all the resources, equipment, and support they need for success when they return home. This in-service education will enable licensed nurses to understand the components of the discharge process and develop a solid discharge plan, helping residents to make …
In this podcast, Amy Stewart, MSN, RN, DNS-MT, QCP-MT, RAC-MT, RAC-MTA, chief nursing officer for AAPACN, and Dr. Devin Jopp, EdD, chief executive officer for the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC), discuss the role of the infection preventionist in long-term care and how this respiratory season …
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Working as a nurse in a nursing home can be overwhelming, especially if the director of nursing services (DNS) and executive leadership expect nurses to learn on the job and fail to set up a comprehensive program that includes adequate orientation (short-term training and support) and onboarding (longer-term training and …
The facility has a high number of discharges to the community every month, and the director of nursing services (DNS) feels the discharge process is a good one, as she has received no complaints from residents or staff. However, a review of the facility’s Quality Measures (QMs) tells a different …
Providing residents with the appropriate level of assistance in the activities of daily living (ADLs) is foundational to care in nursing homes, yet the ADLs consistently remain a common citation risk in the survey process. From 2021 to summer 2024, F677 (ADL Care Provided for Dependent Residents) is the eighth most-cited F-tag …
With the help of contractors, CMS revised the SNF ABN, Form CMS-10055, and the form instructions. The SNF ABN form and instructions are located in the download section and are available for immediate use, but will be mandatory for use on 10/31/2024. Skilled Nursing Facilities (SNFs) must issue a notice …
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is offering a web-based training course that provides a high-level overview of how data elements within CMS patient/resident assessment instruments are used to construct quality measures (QMs) across post-acute care (PAC) settings. The course also discusses the relationship between these data elements …
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is offering an updated series of web-based training courses that provide an overview of the assessment and guidance to promote accurate coding of the post-acute care (PAC) cross-setting Section GG data elements. Each course contains interactive exercises to test your understanding. To …
The QIO program has updated its resources list to offer a searchable database of tools and resources from across all QIOs that SNFs, NFs, and other providers may access for free. For example, recent video-on-demand presentations include F686: Skin Integrity – Pressure Injury (Roundtable) and F880 – Infection Control (Roundtable) …
