Developing Operational Platforms for the New Decade of Long Term Care Seminar

This Seminar is also available On-Site for groups of 20 or more.

Learn from an experienced professional who will show you how to use the changes in the survey process and new MDS 3.0 data to your facility's advantage

Course Description/Agenda

Preparing for the Baby Boomers…Altering Long Term Care Services

The MDS is a powerful tool for implementing standardized assessment and for facilitating care management. The MDS 3.0 has been designed to improve reliability, accuracy and usefulness. These improvements have profound implications for resident care and public policy. The new focus is to be at least as much on Quality of Life as Quality of Care. Meeting the challenge of 77 million baby boomers who are entering the long term care system will alter our method of providing services.

Join us at this seminar where an experienced professional will provide section-by-section (A–Z) instruction on the implementation of the MDS 3.0. Many items now rely on the resident interview process. Rita Spak, a 30+ year national consultant, will provide basic training in implementing the MDS 3.0 in your assessment process. Assessment protocols to include the new quality of life-focused items will be discussed, as well as the altering of our services to address the needs of exploding baby boomer population.

• Clarify the revisions to Quality of Life Tags
• Examine the changes to Environment sections
• Prepare for the challenge of the baby boomers—how are they different from patients in the past?
• Determine how to use the MDS 3.0
• Coordinate Care Area Trigger Summaries
• Integrate Quality of Life changes into your care plan
• Plan for environmental modifications, along with practical tips for doing so
• Prepare effectively for the next generation of elderly

What You'll Learn

What People Are Saying About the Class

"Rita never lets you down. Delivers important information in a practical manner." – Connie Wagner, RN, Director of Education, Nebraska Health Care Association

More Seminar Information

Cross Country Education
Course Summary	Learn from an experienced professional who will show you how to use the changes in the survey process and new MDS 3.0 data to your facility's advantage
Delivery Method	Seminar
Also Available As	On-Site Training
Who Should Attend	All nursing home, long-term care and assisted living staff involved with resident Quality of Life issues, including: ‣ Activity Directors, Coordinators, Therapists, Assistants , ‣ Recreation Directors, Therapists , ‣ Social Workers , ‣ Administrators , ‣ Nursing Staff , ‣ MDS Coordinators , ‣ Adult Daycare Center Staff , ‣ Assisted Living Staff