Moving Forward Coalition: Resident Rights Fact Sheet
Two-page nursing home resident rights summary: https://movingforwardcoalition.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/CV_NHrights_factsheet_final.pdf
Navigating the Role: Essential Training for New Nurse Assessment Coordinators
Navigating the multifaceted role of the nurse assessment coordinator (NAC) can be daunting, especially for those new to the position. Whether titled NAC, MDS coordinator, Medicare case manager, or another variant, the responsibilities are both far reaching and crucial to ensuring quality care in long-term care facilities. As facilities increasingly …
LTC and Assisted Living Facility Biosafety: Identify, Isolate and Inform Infographic from NETEC
This printable flyer infographic discusses Long-Term Care (LTC) and Assisted Living Facility Biosafety: Identify, Isolate and Inform. https://repository.netecweb.org/items/show/1873
How to Prepare for FY 2025 ICD-10 Updates – Sept. 12, 2024
Members: $25 | Non-members: $50Continuing Education: 1.5 CE hours Recording Date: Sept. 12, 2024Duration: 90 minutesSpeaker: Jennifer LaBay, RN, RAC-MT, RAC-MTA, QCP, CRC Now is the time to prepare for the FY 2025 ICD-10-CM coding updates, which go into effect on Oct. 1, 2024. HIPAA requires that the facility’s clinical team ensure accurate diagnoses …
Staff Work Schedules: It’s Time to Get Flexible—and Realistic—to Improve Retention
Flexible scheduling, which allows staff members to opt for shorter shifts, longer shifts, add-on shifts, and other staffing flexibilities, can be a strong tool for both recruitment and retention in long-term care, says Jasmine Travers, PhD, MHS, RN, AGPCNP-BC, assistant professor at the New York University Rory Meyers College of …
Staff Performance: When Expectations Don’t Match Reality
To implement the minimum nurse staffing standards for registered nurses (RNs) and nurse aides (NAs) and the increased on-site RN requirement in the Minimum Staffing Standards for Long-Term Care (LTC) Facilities and Medicaid Institutional Payment Transparency Reporting final rule starting as early as May 2026 on some requirements for urban …
Substance Use Disorder (SUD) Resources
Substance use disorder (SUD) is becoming more common in nursing home residents. While SUD can be challenging, there are several resources that can help nurse leaders to develop, implement, and sustain a SUD program. AAPACN has developed the Substance Use Disorder (SUD) Resources list to assist directors of nursing services …
Substance Use Disorders: What the DNS Should Know
Over 1 million people aged 65 and over live with substance use disorders (SUD) (Alliance for Aging Research, 2022). As with most trends, what is prevalent in the community will also be prevalent in nursing homes. Therefore, the director of nursing services (DNS) should understand the nuances of this disorder …
Preferences and Routines: Use Section F to Collaborate on the Care Plan
The Resident Assessment Instrument (RAI) process begins with the Minimum Data Set (MDS) assessment and ends with the resident-centered comprehensive care plan. In the MDS, section F focuses on the resident’s preferences for customary routines and activities, asking scripted questions about how the person rates the importance of these items. …
Skilled Observation and Assessment Hinges on a Reasonable Probability of Complication
Direct skilled services under Medicare Part A often are easy to identify because these services involve specific, complex caregiver-to-resident actions. Their “inherent complexity” means that they can “be performed safely and/or effectively only by or under the general supervision of skilled nursing or skilled rehabilitation personnel,” explains the Centers for …