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This training is appropriate for charge nurses – RNs and LPNs in nursing facilities.

This program offers the nurse in an executive leadership role in a nursing facility vital information related to their position. Topics and critical issues include understanding the role; leadership and management training; problem solving; and staffing issues including levels of staffing, requirements and team work. Documentation, regulations and survey are also included.

This program is directed toward restorative nurses and restorative nursing assistants and will cover regulations, job description, medical terminology, and documentation set-up and requirements. The restorative program, with examples and demonstrations, will be explored in depth. Participants will understand why restorative is necessary and how restorative services can make a definite and distinct impact on almost every area of a facility’s quality, care and culture. Participants will learn how to deliver a restorative nursing program that keeps the facility in compliance with federal law and state surveys and promotes keeping residents at their highest functional level physically, mentally and psychosocially. Specific training will be provided on integrating the multidisciplinary team with restorative services for carryover of services into everyday life and activities. Each participant will also have a take home, open-book skills test with skills demonstration sign-off.

This 1.25-hour webinar will review strategies for successfully managing rehabilitation programs through the shift in reimbursement from a focus on therapy service time delivered to the patient driven payment model which emphasizes resident characteristics. Content will explore meeting and justifying Medicare skilled service requirements, considerations for contract therapy terms and service delivery under PDPM, consumer expectations for rehabilitation, potential areas of future medical review, and interdisciplinary collaboration for quality outcomes. Guidance regarding preparing for payment model changes while maintaining an effectively functioning therapy program will be provided. An action planning tool will be shared with participants.

This assisted living administrator refresher consists of 12 actual classroom hours. The classroom content will cover topics generic to all administrators in assisted living.
This education program is designed as a refresher for any individual in an administrator/director/manager position in an assisted living facility.

This program offers the nurse in an executive leadership role in a nursing facility vital information related to the position. Topics and critical issues include understanding the role; leadership and management training; problem solving; and staffing issues including levels of staffing, requirements and teamwork. Documentation, regulations and survey are also included.

This 1.25-hour session will assist SNF providers in understanding the new requirements related to Infection Preventionists. This session will review the regulatory requirements regarding Infection Preventionists and emphasize the analysis of essential duties and requirements related to this new position.

The ICD-10-CM program will provide instructions in assigning ICD-10-CM codes to diagnoses using the ICD-10-CM code book, exercises to assure participants understand how to utilize the ICD-10-CM code book, and information regarding documentation requirements.

Whether you are a new nursing facility administrator or sharpening your skills, this program is designed to deliver a range of key information that you need to help shape success in your operation. The Nursing Facility Administrator Intensive will include information and discussion on the facility survey process, risk management practices, abuse and neglect reporting, employment practices, collections tools, resident assessment, financial survivability, and root cause analysis. Other key items will include identifying where to access the necessary resources to navigate new initiatives such as the Quality Reporting Program, Patient-Driven Payment Model, Five-Star Quality Rating, and Payroll-Based Journal Staffing.

FACILITATOR Heath Boddy, President and CEO, Nebraska Health Care Association, Lincoln, Nebraska.

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.

The goal of the webinar is to provide more information about Livanta, the QIO program, the appeals and quality of care complaint process, and information resources available to the Nebraska Health Care Association members.

**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.