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Take your leadership and management talents to the next level with a preparatory workshop for AADNS's Director of Nursing Services – Certified (DNS-CT) certification. Earning this credential validates your expertise; gives you the advantage among your peers; and helps you improve quality, communication, and resident care throughout the facility. Meet the challenges of long-term care as they arise with strategies to excel during surveys using tested best-practices. Apply a team approach to quality improvement that honors resident preferences and leverages staff skills. Protect your residents with risk-management plans that adhere to current compliance standards. Prevent burnout and minimize facility turnover by promoting communication and participation. Comply with human resource regulations, laws, and challenges no matter the situation.

This 1.25-hour webinar will review key operational strategies for successful implementation of the Patient Driven Payment Model effective October 1, 2019, through a panel presented by experts in SNF operations and clinical reimbursement. Emphasis of this session will be on processes involving a team approach.

AUDIENCE: Owners and corporate teams, directors of nursing, assistant directors of nursing, nurse managers, nursing home administrators, nursing staff and leaders, quality assurance directors, medical records, MDS staff, and therapy staff in nursing facilities.

Get the tools you need to prepare for and implement QAPI-mandated regulations in your long-term care facility with a preparatory workshop for QAPI Certified Professional (QCP) certification. This two-day workshop will complement your nursing expertise with QAPI knowledge and skills to lead your team in quality initiatives.

**This is a two-day training. Please note the daily schedule.**
This program is a must for all health care professionals who provide services to residents with dementia. There is a continuing need for caregivers who are trained to provide appropriate, competent, and sensitive direct care to residents who have dementia. Following successful completion of this program, participants are one step closer to receiving their certified dementia practitioner (CDP®) certification.

This 1.25 hour session will assist SNF providers in understanding the new requirements related to trauma informed and culturally competent care. A review of regulatory requirements regarding trauma informed and culturally competent care with an analysis of the interpretive guidance related to this requirement will be emphasized.

AUDIENCE: Social services, directors of nursing, assistant directors of nursing, nurse managers, nursing home administrators, nursing staff and leaders, quality assurance directors, and staff development in nursing facilities.

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This 1.25 hour webinar will review best practices to decrease potential billing errors and promote accurate reimbursement for PDPM claims through internal interdisciplinary auditing processes. Key roles of interdisciplinary team members in completion of a collaborative triple check process and key data collection, billing, and monitoring process pertinent to PDPM will be emphasized.

AUDIENCE: Owners and corporate teams, directors of nursing, assistant directors of nursing, nurse managers, nursing home administrators, nursing staff and leaders, quality assurance directors, medical records, MDS staff, therapy staff, and business office and finance in nursing facilities.

This 1.25 hour webinar will focus on skilled nursing documentation requirements and best practices as it relates to the new Medicare payment model, PDPM. The webinar will include review of skilled level of care criteria with an emphasis on skilled nursing services and documentation to support the skilled stay.

AUDIENCE: MDS nurses, directors of nursing, assistant directors of nursing, nurse managers, nursing home administrators, and nursing staff and leaders in nursing facilities.