There is probably no other event in the year that generates more anxiety than the annual certification survey. Regardless of how well your staff cares for your patients and residents, if the survey team finds a significant problem, it can result in serious deficiencies. These deficiencies can result in sanctions and also can diminish the reputation of the organization. As a director of nursing, I know what it is like to have to keep your facility in a constant state of survey readiness. That's why I wrote this autoresponder course, SurveyPrep™E-Alerts. It contains strategies I have learned in my years working with facilities, and they have been field tested. Each week for an entire year, an information module will be emailed to you with critical information to help you lead your organization in a successful survey. Since it is delivered by email, you can forward it to your staff so they will have access to the same important information that you have.
To learn more or to register for this course,CLICK HERE.
Tele-seminar Playback:
Understanding the Revised Interpretive Guidelines Concerning Activities and Application of the New Scope and Severity Grid
Featuring: Barbara Speedling, Quality of Life Consultant
Originally Broadcast on Thursday, May 11, 2006
Approximately 50 minutes
Fee $40.00, including FREE power point presentation
Program Summary This discussion will focus on the changes to the interpretive guidelines for the Federal regulations concerning activities (F248/249), and the intent and application of the new scope and severity grid for psychosocial well being. This presentation will include an overview of basic long term care recreation expectations, including the impact on behavior management strategies and quality of life, assessment and care planning, and integrating ADL/therapeutic activity into a simple, common sense, daily structure. We will also discuss tailoring programming to specific populations and environments, and treating each unit as a distinct community. Resource tools will be provided to all participants to facilitate the application of this information.
Digital version is $40.00 for downloadable mp3 file.
CDRecording is available for $40.00 plus postage and handling ($6.95 added; please allow about a week for delivery). Purchase of either version comes with Barbara's power point presentation ($24.95 value) which follows the seminar content.
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Tele-seminar Recording:
Everything You Knew About the Survey Process and Forgot - and Some New Things You Need to Know Starting June 1
Is your facility ready for its next standard survey? Are you aware of the revisions to Appendix P of the State Operations Manual? Have you developed a quality assurance program that is practical and effective?
Featuring: Sharon Carlo,Principal of The Reds Group
Originally aired Thursday, June 1, 2006 at 8:00 A.M.
Approximately 50 minutes
MP3 File of Recorded Telephone Call-in Seminar
Fee $39.95
Program Summary: This session reviews the survey procedures that have been in place for years, but with an added twist—the revised Section P guidance to surveyors that includes, in part, new procedures for evaluating compliance with activities and psychosocial well-being requirements, as well as quality assurance. The practical suggestions outlined in this presentation will help you understand how you will be evaluated by the survey team that visits your facility.
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eBook:
Care Planning for Survey Success
Practical Strategies for Preparing Your Long Term Care Facility for Certification Survey Is your facility ready for the annual Medicare certification survey? Do you want to decrease the chances that you will have significant findings in areas of quality of care? This easy-to-use guide, emailed directly to you automatically upon processing payment, comes to you in PDF software format. This guide is available for $24.95. In addition, as an additional tool to help ensure your success at survey, we will provide a pre-survey audit tool for checking your care plans. This tool covers the major elements necessary for demonstrating quality care and effective care planning. If you order now, we will provide the pre-survey audit tool for FREE! Because we want you to succeed, we will also be more than happy to answer any questions you may have by email.
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eBook:
March 2007 Revisions to the Long Term Care RAI User's Manual for the Minimum Data Set (MDS) Version 2.0
The December 2002 Revised Long Term Care RAI User's Manual for the Minimum Data Set (MDS) Version 2.0 replaced CMS's original Long Term Care RAI User's Manual Version 2.0 published in October 1995. Be sure you update your RAI Manual with the March 2007 updates included in this product.
This product is provided through either electronic digital delivery in PDF format, or printed version. The March 2007 revisions are highlighted. This is the same version available on the CMS web site and as a service we are making it available to domestic US customers for FREE. A nominal processing fee of is added to cover our delivery expenses.
Please note that InterRAI holds the copyright to Version 2.0 of the RAI for long term care outside of the US. Therefore, this revised Version 2.0 of the RAI/MDS manual is not available for purchase outside of the United States.
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eChart
Prevention of Constipation and Impaction: Sample Policy and Procedure with Model Care Plan
This eChart includes a sample policy and procedure for the prevention of constipation and impaction, and also contains a model care plan that can be individualized. Both documents come in Word format so they can easily be edited to reflect the standards of practice in your local community and institution. Document is immediately available for download when payment is made on line (a link will be emailed to you). The fee is $9.95
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eChart
Pressure Ulcer Management Protocol Chart
This chart is the compilation of various clinical resources and facility practices and is presented as a sample for what you should develop for your facility. For each stage of pressure ulcers, a rubric outlining suggested practices for pressure reduction, nutritional support, wound care, etc. is presented. This two page chart is designed to be reviewed and compared with with facility's policies and procedures, current standards of care and practice in your community, and reviewed and approved by your medical and nursing leadership. It is not intended to be used "off of the shelf".
This eChart is available in Word document format for easy editing and is downloadable .
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Staffing Calculator
Do you struggle with calculating the number of Full Time Equivalents (FTEs) that you need to budget for in order to mainain your planned staffing pattern? This simple Excel based staffing calculator takes the worry out of the math. Just type into the preformatted worksheet the staffing pattern you want for days, evenings, and nights for each category of nursing staff, and the tool does the rest. It calculated and provides you with:
Weekend replacement factor
Benefit time replacement factor (with low and high benefit options)
Total FTEs needed to staff the unit with this pattern.
This calculator comes in two versions, both in Excel format (you will need Excel on your computer in order to utilize the calculator). The first version is for calculating the staffing for a single unit, and the second version allows you to calculate the FTEs required for staffing patterns on up to nine discrete cost centers in order to develop a house-wide staffing plan.
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