Nurses working in long term care must know the Federal Requirements and Guidelines to Surveyors in order to provide appropriate care to their patients. The federal government’s Center for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) have sent 40+ year developing guidance on appropriate care planning and quality of nursing care measures. This course explores the insights provided by CMS for nurses’ guidance in patient care giving.
The contents of this course are relevant to all nurses who are interested in learning the federal governments’ regulations on resident rights, resident behavior, quality of patient life and how to assess patient care needs.
What you will learn:
Each learner will identify the 20 dimensions of quality of care on which nursing facilities are surveyed.
Each learner will identify the conditions for using naso-gastric tubes.
Each learner will identify the acceptable parameters of nutritional status for each resident.
Each learner will identify medication rates that are acceptable and unacceptable.