SEMINAR DESCRIPTION

Morgantown - July 24

This session will be held on July 24 at the Holiday Inn Express, Pierpont Road, Morgantown, 26508 (304-291-2600)

For your convenience, this seminar will be presented in two other locations and times throughout the state by Beth Divelbiss, RN, WVHCA Director of Clinical Services.  The other sessions are listed below:

August 21 in Charleston at the WVHCA office, 110 Association Drive, Charleston, 25311 304-346-4575

September 11 at the Holiday Inn, 301 Foxcroft Avenue, Martinsburg, 25401 1-800-465-4329

If you wish to attend one of these sessions, please go here and register for your preferred date.

This course is designed for new nurses or experienced nurses new to the long-term care setting.

This one day intensive course will review key clinical processes and current regulations and clinical standards of practice. It will provide a brief overview of the Quality Indicator Survey process and quality assurance for performance improvement along with management essentials for the long term care nurse.
 

Objectives:

• Describe the key components of the effective pain management assessment in the LTC setting

• Verbalize understanding of current standards of practice for pressure ulcer prevention and treatment

• Identify the maximum daily thresholds for anti-psychotics and anxiolytics in the geriatric population according to F329 State the transient causes of urinary incontinence and identify behavioral continence management programs for residents in the LTC setting

• Verbalize understanding of the admission, census and MDS samples in a Quality Indicator Survey and the importance of maintaining an effective Quality Improvement Program.

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