The Age-Friendly Health Systems: Guide to Care of Older Adults in Nursing Homes and the Age-Friendly Health Systems: A Workbook for Nursing Home Teams are designed to be used simultaneously to help care teams in SNFs and NFs “prepare for, test, and implement a specific set of evidence-based or evidence-informed …
Members: $24 | Non-members: $48Continuing Education: 1 CE hour Recording Date: May 30, 2024Duration: 60 minutesSpeaker: Denise Winzeler, BSN, RN, LNHA, DNS-MT, QCP-MT Unfortunately, resident-to-resident altercations can and do occur in nursing facilities. These altercations are sometimes deemed an abuse situation. When this occurs, facility leadership must know the actions to take once the …
There are many reasons to beef up your facility’s restorative program, from reducing risk of functional decline, improving Five-Star and Quality Measure ratings, minimizing risk of falls and immobility, to improving reimbursement under PDPM. But doing so is easier said than done! AAPACN has develop an interactive guide to restorative …
APIC and IPAC Canada partnered on the creation of a new resource to help healthcare professionals work through ethical issues that arise in infection prevention and control (IPC) and assist in making complex decisions. Published on both the APIC and IPAC Canada websites, the Ethical Infection Prevention and Control (EIPAC) Decision-Making Framework illustrates how to …
This site includes access to a provider enrollment and certification roadmap: https://www.cms.gov/medicare/provider-enrollment-and-certification/enroll-as-an-institutional-provider
The NHSN Long-term Care Facility Component supports the nation’s COVID-19 response through the LTCF COVID-19 Module. Facilities eligible to report data to NHSN’s COVID-19 Module include nursing homes/skilled nursing, long-term care for the developmentally disabled, and assisted living. In response to H.R. 7105 – Veterans Healthcare and Benefits Improvement Act of 2020, …
As the saying goes, time flies when you’re having fun. Reaching the 25-year anniversary mark is definitely something worth celebrating, and AAPACN is celebrating all year long! AAPACN’s silver anniversary marks a quarter of a century of success, growth, and resilience. AAPACN and its legacy organizations have played a pivotal …
The final Minimum Data Set (MDS) 3.0 Item Sets version (v)1.19.1 are now available. The MDS Item Sets v1.19.1 will be effective beginning October 01, 2024. Items in sections A, B, D, GG, I, J, N, and O are affected. From https://www.cms.gov/medicare/quality/nursing-home-improvement/resident-assessment-instrument-manual
https://www.cdc.gov/healthcare-associated-infections/php/toolkit/tap-strategy.html AT A GLANCE ON THIS PAGE
Infection Control Assessment and Response (ICAR) Tool for General Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) Across Settings https://www.cdc.gov/healthcare-associated-infections/php/toolkit/icar.html AT A GLANCE ON THIS PAGE
