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This session will review the antipsychotics quality measures that impact the Quality Measure component of the Nursing Home Compare Five-Star Quality Rating System. During the session, we will review how these measures are calculated and how they impact your overall Five-Star Quality Rating. The session will focus on best practices for reducing antipsychotic medications and chemical restraints in your facility and how to improve these measures using a QAPI framework with emphasis on reduction of common MDS coding errors and implementation of a facility specific Five-Star road map action plan. Sample tools will be shared for driving and sustaining antipsychotic reduction efforts.

Join NNFA/NALA for the Legislative Session Wrap-Up Zoom meeting. In this webinar, you will have the opportunity to:

Review the outcomes of this legislative session
Discuss what needs to be done to help ensure success in the coming year with only four months until the legislature returns
Ask questions pertaining to advocacy and the legislative session

Bullying in older adult care settings across the nation has become a concern for all care givers. It is more common than we may expect and even the most critical eye may miss this behavior. We must always ask ourselves: Is this behavior related to the dementia disease process? Is it just this person’s personality? Am I being too sensitive?

How can caregivers and leadership teams educate and empower themselves to recognize bullying? How can caregivers and leadership teams intervene while protecting the rights of all older adults and maintain dignity and safety? Come to this session to learn how to address bullying in a confident and effective manner.

This session of the PDPM Master Class Series will focus on PDPM Medical Review risks for providers and key strategies to address those risks in the Compliance and Ethics Work Plan. The webinar will emphasize risks related to supporting daily skilled services, medical necessity, MDS coding decisions impacting reimbursement (e.g. modified diets, NTA items, etc.), therapy service provision patterns including the volume and mode of treatment, and justifying functional patient outcomes. Strategies for driving ethical practice and facility compliance through a targeted work plan that addresses Medical Review risks will be emphasized.

Motivating staff isn’t as hard as you think. When you understand what motivates staff, you can take steps to get them performing at a higher level. By focusing on what really motivates people, supervisors can refocus their efforts on what really matters. Whether it’s an individual, a team, or an organization, Colby will give you the tools to diagnose engagement problems and take steps to re-engage staff at a higher level.

This session will review discharge to community, hospital readmissions, and emergency room visit quality measures that impact the Quality Measure component of the Nursing Home Compare Five-Star Quality Rating System. During the session, we will review how these measures are calculated and how they impact your overall Five-Star Quality Rating. The session will focus on best practices for decreasing unplanned discharges, emergency room visits, and return to hospital visits in short-term stay residents and improve your quality measures using a QAPI framework with emphasis on reduction of common MDS coding errors and implementation of a facility specific Five-Star road map action plan. Sample tools will be shared for driving and sustaining Five-Star Quality.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has termed traumatic brain injury (TBI) the “silent epidemic.” Within this silent epidemic, there is a seemingly silent population; older adults with TBI. Finding age-appropriate care for the elderly patients with TBI is sparse. This presentation will begin the conversation about the importance of recognizing and managing the invisible injury, brain injury. We will also discuss the importance of brain injury prevention starting with fall prevention techniques.

When you have experienced insurmountable challenges – how do you overcome? My son Shane is a true example. He has taught me the true meaning of resiliency. After being critically wounded in Iraq, he returned home to meet extreme challenges. Nothing would ever be the same. As a caregiver, I had to prepare for new life with Shane. I was the pupil; he was my teacher. Never give up! When you break down the injuries and what the result engaged on a person, it can provide positive change: identify triggers to post traumatic stress syndrome, define ways to adapt to change, and examine ways to engage with your community. Promote overcoming adversity.

There are new state regulations that require all licensed practical nurses to complete an IV therapy eight-hour didactic course prior to Aug. 24, 2022. All LPNs must complete the training to maintain an active Nebraska license, regardless of whether they will be performing IV therapy in their work setting. This course meets the didactic portion of the new requirement and counts toward the annual continuing education requirement for an LPN license. LPNs who have been previously licensed as LPN‑Cs or graduated after May 1, 2016, have already fulfilled the new requirements and do not need to complete the didactic and skills training.

With the implementation of the Requirements of Participation, it’s more important than ever to provide quality activities based upon person-centered preferences. Activities cannot be designed as one size fits all’ or a ‘program.’ They must be developed as an approach that encompasses a team culture with creative and innovative activities, which are, adapted to meet or enhance individual abilities for quality of life. Quality engagements and interactions are the heart and soul of activity-focused care. Not only activity staff, but caregivers and volunteers need to know each person’s life story in order to engage and communicate in a meaningful manner. Come to this session to experience activity-focused care and what meaningful engagement means to each individual.

This session of the PDPM Master Class Series will review considerations for advancing clinical capabilities and care delivery under PDPM. Focus of this webinar will be on strengthening or developing care delivery processes by way of evaluating the opportunity for clinical programs, marketing clinical scope, and assuring success through facility policy, QAPI, and Facility Assessment review.

Phase 3 of the Requirements of Participation went into effect Nov. 28, 2019. Surveyors will be asking us, the activity professional, how we are meeting the needs and ensuring quality of life for individuals suffering from Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). PTSD affects an estimated 70 percent of adults in the United States who have experienced a traumatic event at least once in their lives and up to 20 percent of these people go on to develop PTSD. This workshop will review the facts, risk factors, and information on how to provide quality of life to those with PTSD.

This 1.25-hour webinar will focus on the Health Inspections component of the Nursing Home Compare Five-Star Rating System. You will learn how the health inspection rating is calculated and how it impacts your overall Five-Star Rating. The top survey citations nationally and best practices for avoiding common citations will be discussed.

This program will discuss the most common life safety deficiencies for long-term care and assisted living facilities in Nebraska and the minimum required inspection, testing, and maintenance activities that need to be performed on a facility's fire protection systems to meet requirements of NFPA 101, 2012 edition.

The assisted living administrator training consists of 30 actual classroom hours. Part two is schedule for Dec. 9-10, 2020. The classroom content will cover topics generic to all administrators in assisted living.

The assisted living administrator refresher consists of 18 actual classroom hours. The classroom content will cover topics generic to all administrators in assisted living.

This session of the PDPM Master Class Series will focus on lessons learned and operational best practices derived from the experiences of providers achieving successful outcomes under PDPM in areas such as, but not limited to, census stability and admission practices, interdisciplinary operations, coding accuracy, clinical quality, and financial outcomes.

Connect with peers from across the state by participating in the 2020 Fall Convention, hosted by Nebraska Nursing Facility Association, Nebraska Assisted Living Association, Nebraska Association of Home Health Agencies, and Licensed Practical Nurse Association of Nebraska.