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This session explores the significant impact that advance directives, informed consent, and end-of-life can care have on behavioral health and psychosocial well-being. It aims to provide participants with a comprehensive understanding of how these critical aspects of healthcare influence patients’ mental and emotional states, as well as their overall quality of life.
Learning Objectives
Target Audience: Nursing, administrators, activities, and social services
Time: 2:30pm-3:30pm EST
This webinar is a part of a series.
Dates/Topics:
September 18 – Psychotropic Medications: Best Practices in LTC
This session explores the regulatory requirements and standards of care related to psychotropic medication use in nursing homes. Best practices for ensuring appropriate use, avoiding unnecessary medications and understanding related quality measures will be discussed with case study examples.
September 25 – Mental Health Conditions & Successful Care Planning for Resident Well-Being
This session provides an overview of mental health conditions commonly encountered in nursing facilities (NF) and outlines strategies for successful care planning to enhance resident well-being.
October 2 – Trauma Informed Care
Learn to recognize signs of trauma, create a supportive environment, and apply strategies to enhance the emotional and psychological well-being of residents. This session will emphasize integrating trauma-informed care practices into daily routines to provide compassionate and effective care.
October 9 – Substance Use Disorders (SUD)
Substance Use Disorders are now recognized and identified as a collection of cognitive, behavioral, and physiological symptoms, wherein an individual persists in using a substance despite experiencing significant problems and adverse consequences. This session will review the characteristics of this disease, along with identifying who is at risk, what substances are included, intervention strategies, and how it impacts Long Term Care.
October 16 – Behavior Management Programs
Expand insight into the application of non-pharmacological interventions, techniques for de-escalating challenging behaviors, and the importance of a person-centered approach. The goal of this session is to equip staff with the skills necessary to to preemptively reduce problem behaviors and to manage behavioral health issues effectively, fostering a positive and therapeutic environment for residents.
October 23 – Advance Directives, Consent, and End-of-Life Care
This session aims to provide participants with a comprehensive understanding of how these critical aspects of healthcare influence patients’ mental and emotional states, as well as their overall quality of life
Clinical Consultant, Proactive LTC Consulting
Eleisha Wilkes is a Registered Nurse and AANAC certified MDS consultant with over fifteen years of experience in long term care. She has served as a Director of Nursing, Case Manager and Resident Assessment Coordinator with positive results in achieving MDS coding accuracy and person-centered care planning through effective systems, staff development, and interdisciplinary team collaboration. Eleisha specializes in MDS validation audits, reimbursement compliance, and competency-based staff education programs. As a nurse consultant with Proactive, she conducts mock surveys, teaches extensively on MDS coding, QAPI, phase 3 preparedness, and is assisting facilities with PDPM impact analysis reviews and transition projects.
Appeals & Denials Management Coordinator , Proactive LTC Consulting
Christine is a clinical consultant with Proactive Medical Review and Consulting. Ms. Twombly is a certified gerontological nurse, a certified resident assessment coordinator (RAC-CT), a certified AANAC master teacher, a licensed health care risk manager (LHRM), and is certified in healthcare compliance (CHC).
Christine has more than 28 years of experience in post-acute care, including many years of hands-on experience with MDS assessments and related care planning. She has worked under Medicare PPS for skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) since its inception. She has extensive experience working with SNFs to conduct Medicare documentation and billing compliance assessments and providing assistance with third-party medical review and the appeals process.
Director of Legal Nurse Consulting, Proactive Medical Review
Janine is a Registered Nurse with over 30 years’ experience in long term care, working in
all nursing capacities from Nursing Assistant and Charge Nurse, to MDS Coordinator, Staff
Development Coordinator, ADON and DON. She is MDS Certified through AANAC, and is
a Certified Legal Nurse Consultant. Her background includes serving as a Corporate Nurse
Consultant, and the Director of Clinical Services for a multi-facility, multi-level of care organization.
She has extensive experience in the RAI process, clinical documentation, legal
nurse consulting, restorative nursing programs, fall management, QAPI, and infection control,
and has provided training on these topics for State and National organizations.
CEUs: 1 CEU per webinar. Sessions will be approved by NAB for Administrators, IN licensed social workers, IN licensed occupational therapists, & nurses. Please note that in order to receive continuing education credits for this webinar, you MUST login via the webinar software on your computer, or via the mobile app. We are unable to grant continuing education units for those who call in by phone only without doing so through the GoToWebinar application on your phone. As a registered participant, you will receive access to the webinar recordings. No CEUs are given for watching the recording.
