Clinical Tools and Forms for Long-Term Care Barbara Acello, MS, RN Is your library of long-term care tools and forms a bit cluttered or a challenge to navigate? Minimize space and save time searching for the clinical, legal, and daily maintenance related forms you need with "Clinical Tools and Forms for Long-Term Care." This valuable book combines an extensive collection of long-term care tools and forms from author Barbara Acello, MS, RN, into an all-in-one comprehensive resource. Including clinical forms such as pain and activities of daily living assessments, as well as regulatory forms such as HIPAA rules and regulations, infection control, and facility-specific policies, the book s content is organized by topic so long-term care providers can instantly reference, download, and implement the forms they need. Table of contents Clinical Admission, Transfer, Discharge Assessment, Nursing Audits & Checklists Code/Medical Emergency Diabetes Monitoring & Medication Enteral, Parenteral Nutrition Falls Infection Control Medicare Medication Miscellaneous Nursing Assistant Nursing (Licensed) Documentation Nutrition (Oral) and Hydration Pain Physician Services Restraints Skin/Pressure Ulcer/Skin Tears Social Services/Behavior/Mental Health Vital Signs, Height/Weight Wandering/Eloping Documentation Audits & Checklists Certificates Code/Medical Emergency Employee Issues/Human Resources Infection Control In-Service/Education Miscellaneous Nursing Assistant Nursing (Licensed) Documentation Report Resident Consents and Releases Social Services/Behavior/Mental Health Wandering/Eloping Legal Advance Directive, DNR (No Code), POLST, Vial of Life Contracts and Agreements Employee Issues/Human Resources Medicare Nursing (Licensed) Documentation Resident Consents and Releases Restorative ADL Bowel and Bladder Restorative Nursing Task Analysis Top 10 Forms Restorative Nursing Care of Plan Form Admission Bladder Assessment Form Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment Vaccine Consent Elopement Patterning Tool Behavioral Scale for Cognitively Impaired Adults Brink/Yesavage Geriatric Depression Scale Skin Tear Risk Assessment Fall Prevention Assessment Medicare Redetermination Request Form Who should read this book? Administrators Directors of nursing (DON) Nurses Assistant DONs Staff educators Clinical managers Directors Nurse managers QA committee members Quality assurance staff "

Save nursing home staff time and improve the documentation accuracy of every department in your long-term care facility. 100 Essential Forms for Long-Term Care provides convenient access to a compilation of essential long-term care forms that offer easy-to-understand descriptions of implementation processes and timing, and can be used as-is or customized to meet the particular needs of nursing home staff. The updated content found in this new edition will help long-term care facilities stay compliant with recent regulatory changes and ensure quality resident care is always provided. This valuable resource contains 100 of the most commonly utilized forms in long-term care facilities, including: Clinical assessment forms Survey readiness assessments Documentation forms MDS tools Regulatory forms Accountability reports Quality Assessment and Performance Improvement (QAPI) forms This comprehensive book will help long-term care providers: Gain immediate access to the most essential, commonly used long-term care forms Enhance the efficiency of staff procedures Improve documentation accuracy Address documentation needs and concerns for every department Table of Contents: Section 1: Audit Forms Section 2: Documentation Forms Section 3: Accountability Reports Section 4: Regulatory Forms Section 5: Performance Improvement Forms Section 6: Credentialing Forms Section 7: Financial Forms

Tools for making long-term care facilities into caring and desirable places to live and work Written for health care administrators, medical directors, nursing executives, architects, and facility planners, Adding Value to Long-Term Care is a comprehensive resource that provides the tools and information needed to improve the clinical environment for residents, staff, and families; strengthen overall business operations; and secure a facility's financial future. This essential book and companion diskette are filled with a wealth of down-to-earth advice, helpful checklists, and easily reproducible forms-tools for effective business and clinical planning. Authors Dianne Lazer and Tobi Schwartz-Cassell present a comprehensive approach-The Value System-that will help to improve the structure of residents' days with a new model of programming, reenergize staff training and motivation, revitalize staff so they can engage productively with residents' families, and improve compliance with regulatory demands. "Adding Value to Long-Term Care is a must read. The Value System offers vast improvement in the clinical care of skilled nursing facility patients, improves staff morale and patient resident satisfaction, and creates a positive marketing advantage."—John C. McMeekin, president and chief executive officer, Crozer-Keystone Health System "How we care for the most ill, infirm, and frail elderly represents the central moral challenge confronting our society. This book contains a straightforward strategy to help meet this challenge through a creative and cost-effective transformation of long-term care. The authors have made a valuable contribution to all of us working in the fields of geriatrics and long-term and palliative care in our efforts to improve the quality of living and dying for the people we serve."—Ira Byock, M.D., author of Dying Well "Lazer and Schwartz-Cassell show a sophisticated grasp of many aspects of long-term care. Adding Value to Long-Term Care is a very impressive, multilevel volume that should be of great usefulness to all professionals concerned about aging in the United States."—Robert M. Goisman, M.D., assistant professor of psychiatry, Harvard Medical School "This book presents a concept that is widely advocated but seldom put into practice. Its major strength lies in the clear, concise, 'how-to-implement' guide."—Sylvia Beatam, Health Care Administrator, Hyde Park Convalescent Home, MA

Practical approaches to the operation of long-term care facilities Managing the Long-Term Care Facility provides a comprehensive introduction to the growing field of long-term care. Taking a continuum-of-care approach, the text covers every aspect of long-term care. Readers will develop a robust knowledge of the issues faced by people experiencing physical and or mental changes. Topics covered include the biological and psychosocial implications of ageing, marketing long-term care, facility operations, and information technology for health care, among many others. By integrating all aspects of long-term care, the book is an invaluable resource that will aid students and professionals in preparing for career advancement and licensure exams. The book is also is designed to help students prepare for the National Nursing Home Administrator exam. Pedagogical elements help guide readers through the content, and summaries and discussion questions to drive home lessons learned. Builds expert knowledge of all aspects of long-term care management, including operations, human resources, patient advocacy, and information systems Emphasizes the latest understandings of the long-term care continuum and patient-centered care for diverse populations Delivers practical approaches to providing quality care to individuals and making a positive impact on community wellbeing Prepares readers for and National Nursing Home Administrator's licensure exam Managing the Long-Term Care Facility: Practical Approaches to Providing Quality Care provides real-world guidance for students in healthcare administration, health and human services, gerontology, nursing, business and medical programs, in both domestic and international markets. Nursing home administrators, administrators-in-training and preceptors will find this book an effective training tool in the nursing facility setting.

Contains the fundamental information long-term care nurses need to provide all aspects of safe and effective care to their patients in nursing homes and assisted living facilities. Written by a renowned and highly respected nurse leader in long-term care and gerontology, it presents key facts and core competencies related to the clinical and ......

"This concise guide to long-term services and supports introduces a broad array of topics and presents ideas on how to get more extensive information... A variety of graphs, tables, and charts make the information easy to understand. Overall the book is well-organized with chapters that can stand on their own... Readers considering going into long-term care management or administration would find this book a valuable tool."--Doodyís Medical Reviews This is a comprehensive reference for long-term care administrators, practitioners and students who want to understand the options, issues, and trends related to the effective administration and management of long-term care communities. The book is unique in its in-depth focus on what needs to be accomplished and the evidence-based information about what actually works. Multifaceted insights address the ever-changing world of the long-term care industry and offer best practices and model programs in eldercare. This multidisciplinary book covers the most crucial aspects of management including federal and/or state regulations required to provide long-term care services and operate long-term care communities. It offers advice on care at home, naturally occurring retirement communities, and continuing care retirement communities, client care, staff retention, preventing elder abuse and neglect, anticipating and managing litigation and arbitration in long-term care, aging and human diversity, Alzheimerís Disease, palliative care, care transitions, and much more. Distilling many years of practical, research and teaching experience, the authors provide the necessary tools and tips that will enable professionals to maximize the quality of care and the quality of life for older adults living in long-term care communities. Each chapter includes helpful pedagogical features such as learning objectives, case studies, effective practices, and/or model programs in eldercare. Key Features: Based on federal and/or state regulations required to provide long-term care services and operate long-term care communities Examines the complex operations of long-term care options for effective eldercare Highlights the most cost-effective practices and model programs in long-term care communities that are currently used throughout the United States Provides useful tips about client care and staff retention as well as marketing and census development, financing and reimbursement, and legal issues Promotes innovative collaboration between education, research, and practice that is reflected by the training of the editors and contributing authors

The fourth volume in the prestigious Advances in Long-Term Care Series continues to address the challenges of long-term care with innovation and practical insight. Highlighting the dynamic nature of long-term care, the authors share their practical insight and explore issues linked to the cost and process of delivering care to an increasing number of clients. Topics include transitions between acute and long-term care, geriatric day hospitals, subacute care, and more. Contributors from a range of gerontologic disciplines use new research as bases to develop care solutions under the mandates of managed care.

Designed to save time and assist busy practitioners, this book guides standardized assessment and documentation of a patient's condition by providing ready-to-use forms that represent the 'gold standard' of current practice.

Important Notice: The digital edition of this book is missing some of the images or content found in the physical edition. Handbook of Home Health Care, Fifth Edition has been completely revised and updated to provide up-to-date, specific, authoritative guidance for the successful administration and management of home health care agencies. An excellent, comprehensive text, this Handbook addresses detailed legal and legislative issues, case management processes, and state-of-the-art technology.