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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.

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.

This presentation will focus on pressure ulcer/injury quality measure across the post-acute care continuum. It will describe the purpose and rationale for the measure, define pressure ulcers and deep tissue injury (DTI) discuss risk adjustment factors, and a summary of the changes.

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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.

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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.

While attending the Quality Award Training, participants will examine the requirements and complete the AHCA/NCAL Bronze National Quality Award Application for award or renewal award. Participants will leave the workshop with completed applications.

While attending the Quality Award Training, participants will examine the requirements and complete a draft of the AHCA/NCAL Silver National Quality Award Application for award or renewal award. Participants will leave the workshop with a draft version of the application.

This program is directed toward owners, operators, administrators, directors of nursing, and restorative nurses. Participants will understand why restorative nursing is necessary and how restorative services can make a definite and distinct impact on almost every area of your facility’s quality, care and culture.

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.

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.

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

The assisted living administrator training consists of 30 actual classroom hours. The classroom content will cover topics generic to all administrators in assisted living.