atom Alliance experts have compiled four modules targeting key issues impacting the quality of care delivered in nursing homes. These ready-to-teach modules have everything a trainer needs to educate nursing home staff. Here’s what topics are covered in each module:
Module 1: Partnerships
- Survey and certification process
- Resident’s rights and family engagement
- How the Eden Alternative Domains of Wellbeing tie back to resident’s rights
- Quality Assurance Performance Improvement concepts like effective teamwork, leadership
- Root Cause Analysis and problem-solving techniques like “the 5 Whys”
Module 2: Person-Centered Care
- Prevent problems and treat them when necessary
- Empathy for residents and provide compassionate care
- Foster healthy relationships with your residents
- Initiate a learning circle
- Understand the CMS definitions of abuse
- Understand behavioral health in the long-term care setting
- Understand dementia and Alzheimer’s disease
Module 3: Prevention
- Prevention of infections
- Workplace illness and injury
- Pressure injury prevention
- Protect the health and safety of nursing home staff, residents, and visitors
- Established guidelines and regulations
- F-tags pertaining to Infection Prevention and Control
- Environmental cleaning
Module 4: Preparedness
- Protect the health and safety of everyone in your building
- Create a comfortable, safe environment for your residents, your visitors, and your staff
- F-tags that outline requirements for the physical environment in long-term care facilities
- Preventing falls
- Emergency preparedness planning
- Public health emergencies
Course Content
Partnerships
Person Centered Care
Prevention
Preparedness