Category: Training

Pioneer Network’s Hot Topics: Culture Change in Action Webinar

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February 20, 2020: Compassion: A Competency for Today’s Aging Services Leader
Guide: Denise Borgoyn, NHA, SHRM-SCP, Borgoyn Consulting Services, The Compassion Projects, Author “28 Ways of Compassion”

While the work of changing the culture of aging is happening, we should recognize that aging services staff need person-centered care too and must be placed at the top of the organizational agenda.

How can our workforce give the best in person-centered care if it isn’t shown them through attention and compassion from their leaders? The answer is that they probably can’t. The reality is that most leaders know how important compassion is in their roles. The problem is that these leaders say they just don’t know how to enhance their compassionate behavior in the workplace. The good news is – compassion is teachable!

Join Denise Borgoyn, author of 28 Ways to Compassion, for this crucial conversation as we explore the nature of compassion, how and why it matters, and learn concrete actions to improve communication and compassion to give our staff the support they need and deserve.

Pioneer Network’s Hot Topics: Culture Change in Action Webinar

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January 23, 2020: Resources You Can Use to Educate, Advocate, Warm the Soil, Advance Person-Centered Care and Accelerate Culture Change (And They’re Free!)
Guides: Kim McRae, Co-Founder, Culture Change Network of Georgia and President, Have a Good Life; Rose Marie Fagan, A Co-Founder and Founding/Former Executive Director, Pioneer Network and Steering Committee, Culture Change Network of Georgia; and Joan Devine, Director of Education, Pioneer Network

Do you need some new resources to help educate and inspire the general public, care partners and change agents about the WHO, WHAT and WHY of culture change and person-centered care? Well, look no further! The Culture Change Network of Georgia (CCNG) may have just what you are looking for!

Through the generosity of a CMP grant, and through partnerships with organizations like Pioneer Network, they have produced short educational videos on topics from “What is Culture Change?” to “State Culture Change Coalitions: Key to Advancing Change at the Local Level” to “Culture Change and Person-Centered Care: What’s the Difference?” to “Why Worry About Words: WORDS MATTER.”

Join Kim McRae and Rose Marie Fagan as they share the story behind the videos and offer some ideas to spark a conversation about how you can use these free resources to advance culture change and person-centered practices.

And while we’re talking, Joan Devine, Director of Education with Pioneer Network will update you on the resources available through Pioneer Network in our Learning Resource Library and more.

MHCA – 2020 Master Class Webinars

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February 4, 2020: Getting the PDPM Initial PPS Assessment Right! Best Practices for Pre-admission, Admission & Day 1-8 Processes
March 3, 2020: Applying Dollar Values to PDPM Characteristics & Avoiding Top Missed Opportunities with Case Studies
April 7, 2020: Effective Meetings for PDPM (UR/Medicare, Clinical, Triple Check
May 5, 2020: PDPM: Staff Development and Core Competency Essentials
June 2, 2020: Care Planning for the Complex Resident Under PDPM
July 7, 2020: All In! PDPM Supportive Documentation for Physicians, Nursing, Rehab, Dietary and Social Services
August 4, 2020: PDPM Quality Assurance and Outcomes Tracking
September 1, 2020: Addressing PDPM Medical Review Risks in the SNF Compliance and Ethics Work Plan
October 6, 2020: PDPM: Advancing Clinical Capabilities and Care Delivery
November 3, 2020: What We’ve Learned: Insights into Successful Providers from the First Year of PDPM
December 1, 2020: Year End PDPM Updates and 2021 Policy Changes

This series of webinars will focus on developing mastery of the skills required to successfully lead clinical reimbursement excellence under PDPM.

MHCA Mid-Year Conference & Lobby Day

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March 2-3, 2020: 2020 Mid-Year Conference & Lobby Day
Location: Capitol Plaza Hotel, Jefferson City

Missouri Health Care Association strives to provide the best collective efforts directed towards delivering service excellence and high quality in the health care profession. Registration information and details are now available. Please join MHCA as we continue to ensure Missouri’s most vulnerable citizens are receiving the proper care and attention they deserve, the right way, the first time.

MHCA – 2020 Five-Star Insights Webinars

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March 18, 2020: Developing a 5-Star Work Plan
April 22, 2020: 5-Star QMs: Increased ADL Help, Ability to Move Worsened & Improvement in Function
May 20, 2020: 5-Star QMs: Pressure Ulcers
June 17, 2020: 5-Star QMs: Catheter, UTI
July 22, 2020: 5-Star QMs: Falls with Major Injury
August 19, 2020: 5-Star QMs: Antipsychotic Use
September 16, 2020: 5-Star QMs: Re-Hospitalizations, ER Visits, Successful Return to Community
October 21, 2020: 5-Star Health Inspections: Top Citations & How to Avoid Them – Part 1
November 18, 2020: 5-Star Health Inspections: Top Citations & How to Avoid Them – Part 2
December 16, 2020: 5-Star Staffing Rating

This series of webinars will focus on advancing results in the three domains of the CMS 5-Star Quality Rating System: Health Inspections, Staffing, and Quality Measures. You will gain insight into how the health inspection, staffing, quality measure, and overall rating is calculated. Tips on how to analyze your data and develop an effective action plan to achieve 5-Star status will be emphasized, along with practical facility application of QAPI elements to drive your 5-Star Ratings.

MALA 2020 ALF Resident Assessment Training

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March 30-April 1, 2020: ALF Resident Assessment Training
November 2-4, 2020: ALF Resident Assessment Training

As required by 198.005 RSMo and 19 CSR 30-86.047, residents of Assisted Living Facilities are required to undergo a community-based assessment performed by an appropriately trained and qualified individual. This individual must complete a DHSS approved 24- hour training program prior to performing resident assessments. The MALA ALF Assessment Training satisfies this regulatory requirement.

Conversations with Carmen

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January 17, 2020: Is Something Better Than Nothing?
Guest: Sonya Barsness, Gerontologist

Join Carmen and her guest Sonya Barsness as they think through this question. Not presuming to have the answers, they will examine the question through a range of common practices and. Building on former work together, we will look at customs such as folding towels or baby clothes that serve no purpose, fake animals and babies, fake plants, door covers, murals that disguise doorways and more. What are the pros and cons of fake life offerings and real life? Is something truly better than nothing? Are there unintended consequences?

MALA Train the Trainer 2020

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January 15, 2020: 2020 Train the Trainer
March 4, 2020: 2020 Train the Trainer
May 6, 2020: 2020 Train the Trainer
July 1, 2020: 2020 Train the Trainer
September 2, 2020: 2020 Train the Trainer
November 11, 2020: 2020 Train the Trainer

Participants must receive approval in order to attend this workshop. Those wishing to attend must submit the application and all other necessary paperwork to MALA at least two weeks prior to the workshop date.

MDS PDPM Webinar Series

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January 17, 2020 – February 21, 2020: MDS PDPM 6-Week, 6 Session Webinar Series Assessment, Coding & Systems Orientation & Proficiency Series

This 6-week, 6 session webinar series provides MDS section-by-section coding guidance under PDPM and insights for optimal data collection, supportive documentation, and consistent coding accuracy. Live sessions are completed weekly over 6 weeks and review key MDS sections under PDPM. Recordings are provided with full-series purchase for ongoing on-demand access for new hire orientation and as a staff development resource. Reduce the learning curve for clinical reimbursement staff and drive PDPM coding accuracy and compliance with this MDS series taught by Proactive’s expert instructors.

2020 MLN Nursing Home Administrator Conference

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February 27-29, 2020: 29th Annual Nursing Home Administrator Conference
Location: Lodge of the Four Seasons, Lake Ozark

Nursing Home Administrators will be provided with essential information needed to effectively serve long-term care residents and successfully perform their leadership role and job responsibilities. This conference was specifically designed to provide more than 20 hours of CE in 2 ½ days.

MANHA – Infection Preventionist Boot Camp

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February 4-5, 2020: Infection Preventionist Boot Camp
Location: Harrah’s Casino & Hotel, North Kansas City

You have been named the Infection Preventionist for your facility. You have completed your certification for the IP but still aren’t sure where to start or how to go about doing the job with confidence. We are here to give you the confidence you need! Bring your laptop and your infection control policy and procedures and leave with assurance that you and your facility are where they need to be with IPCP and all its requirements.

We will review the CMS 23-hour training as the core to IPCP development and review your IPCP and its accompanying policy and procedures to improve your confidence. We’ll build your personal library of resource material, develop your tracking logs and QAPI communication tools and finally we will create a schedule of routine tasks for you to adhere to for purposes of maintaining compliances.

2020 MANHA Winterfest

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February 5-7, 2020: 2020 MANHA Winterfest Conference & Trade Show
Location: Harrah’s Casino & Hotel, North Kansas City

Missouri Association of Nursing Home Administrators is pleased to invite you to attend our midyear conference, Winterfest. The goal of this conference is to provide long-term care administrators and their staff practical and inspirational education hours along with the opportunity to network and socialize with colleagues. It is also the only MANHA-sponsored conference that provides you a chance to view the latest technology, products, and services offered by suppliers.

Conversations with Carmen

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November 15, 2019: Shedding Light on Dementia for Family, Friends and Care Givers
Guests: Linda Bump, MPH, RLD

Continuing the conversation on how we can stay in relationship, even when we must “give care” as a family member, friend or caregiver.

In this show, we’ll discuss approaches to support daily activities from self-care, to eating, to pursuing leisure.

In our last conversation, we detailed the five human needs of comfort, identity, inclusion, attachment and occupation. This show will have a special focus on the human need of occupation and will discuss specific ways and techniques to help persons living with dementia continue as much of their normal, daily occupation as possible.

Pioneer Network’s Hot Topics: Culture Change in Action

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November 21, 2019: Creating Daily Pleasures in Outdoor Spaces: Making It Happen in All Seasons
Guide: Maggie Calkins, PhD, EDAC, Ideas Institute

Panelists: Betsy Miller, Director of Resident Services & Hilary Boucher, Life Enrichment Manager, White Horse Village, Newtown Square, PA and Barbra Hileman, Activity Director, Garvey Manor & Our Lady of the Alleghenies Residence, Hollidaysburg, PA

For you and me, spending time outdoors is a normal part of life, and something we miss when weather and circumstances keep us indoors for extended periods of time. But for residents living in nursing homes and assisted living communities, and even for elders living in their own homes, opportunities to enjoy outdoor living are often rare, even in ideal weather, but certainly when conditions are less than ideal due to cold, heat, snow or rain.

In this webinar, Maggie Calkins, will share WHY being able to enjoy time outdoors is important and HOW caregivers and families can support making it happen. She will discuss the health benefits of spending time outdoors in terms of stress, mood, concentration, sleep and more. She will also explore the differences in designing for active and passive use of outdoor spaces and share creative ideas for non-traditional outdoor elements, from green houses to hydroponic gardening to fishing, golfing and yerts.

And then team members from two Communities will share stories of how they are making it happen, how outdoor living is a part of life for the residents in their homes.

Pioneer Network’s Hot Topics: Culture Change in Action  (Free Webinar)

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December 19, 2019: This Holiday Season, Give the Gift that Keeps Giving
Guide: Brian LeBlanc, Marketing and Public Relations Executive

Join us for a conversation about how to make the holidays the best they can be not only for persons living with dementia, but for their Care Partners and for each of us.

Brian will share his thoughts on things like: what are some of the most meaningful gifts you can give; how can holiday traditions have a positive effect on individuals; and what are well-intentioned things that people do during the holidays that add to the stigmatization created around elders and those living with dementia.

MLN Workshops

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Practice Gratitude: Find Joy

October 16, 2019: Cape Girardeau
October 24, 2019: Columbia
October 29, 2019: Poplar Bluff
October 30, 2019: Kirksville

 

Awaken Customer Loyalty

October 22, 2019: Chillicothe
November 5, 2019: St. Louis
November 6, 2019: Columbia

 

Leadership: Eliminating Road Blocks on the Path to Success

October 29, 2019: Kansas City
November 12, 2019: Springfield
November 14, 2019: St. Louis

MU Gerontology Clinical Update

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December 5-6, 2019: 30th Annual Gerontology Clinical Update
Location: Peachtree Catering and Banquet Center Ballroom, Columbia

This gerontology conference is two days of evidence-based and application-oriented educational programming built on current literature, suggestions from past participants and hot topics suggested by the conference planning committee. The topics for the conference were determined by experienced gerontology nurses from hospitals, LTC, rehabilitation, home and community health, as well as gerontology nursing faculty, a nursing home administrator, social worker and LTC facility surveyors. Every effort was made to translate the latest evidence into practical and useful knowledge for the gerontology professional.

Keynote Speakers
December 5, 2019: Martin J. Schreiber, Alzheimer’s Caregiver, Ambassador, Former Governor of Wisconsin
Keynote Address:  My Two Elaines

December 6, 2019: Gerda Saunders, PhD, Author, Salt Lake City, UT
Keynote Address: The Disappearing Self

Level I Medication Aide (LIMA) Biennial Training and Inactive Status

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State regulations require Level I Medication Aides (LIMAs) to complete training every two years and submit documentation of the training to the Health Education Unit (HEU), in order to remain on the registry as an active LIMA. If biennial training documentation is not received, the individual’s certification is placed in “inactive” status. Individuals who have not completed the required biennial training and are inactive, are not eligible to be employed as a LIMA in a RCF or an ALF.

If an individual is off the active LIMA registry for more than five (5) years, the individual must retake the LIMA course, unless they meet the eligibility criteria to challenge the examination.

LIMA certificate holders who went inactive on or before September 30, 2012 have until November 1, 2019 to complete the biennial training update and submit the required documentation to HEU to become active. After November 1, 2019, individuals who went inactive on or before September 30, 2012 and who have not completed the required biennial training update, must complete a LIMA training program course, including a minimum of 16 hours of integrated formal instruction and practice sessions directly supervised by an approved instructor, and final written and practicum examinations.

Individuals who are inactive on the LIMA registry are also inactive for insulin certification. When biennial training updates are received by HEU to reinstate a LIMA to active status or in the case where an individual has to retake the entire course due to being off the active registry for more than five (5) years, insulin certification also becomes active.

Level I Medication Aide (LIMA) webpage
Biennial Update Form

Conversations with Carmen

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October 18, 2019: Shedding Light on Dementia for Family, Friends and Care Givers – 2nd in series on creating a good life for persons living with dementia
Guests: Megan Hannan, MS and Linda Bump, MPH, RLD

How can we stay in relationship with the people we love who are now living with dementia?

Consider:

    • Listening and being present.
    • Appealing to strengths and abilities.
    • Experiencing even a small success.

These are things that help any of us have a better moment, hour or day, and often help persons living with dementia feel heard, included, competent and less isolated. That can be huge!

We invite staff, families and friends of persons living with dementia to join us for this “illuminating” conversation. We’ll discuss the five basic human needs: comfort, inclusion, identity, occupation and attachment, and how understanding those can help us be present and in relationship with persons living with dementia. We’ll also talk about simple communication techniques and approaches that have been shown to help ease agitation or confusion.

For this show, we encourage communities to invite family members and friends of your residents living with dementia, to join you for this webinar. Make it a party!

For those who support someone living at home with dementia, gather family and friends together for this webinar.

As always, registration for the webinar allows you to attend the live show and/or to watch the recorded show. Learn at your convenience!

MC5 Fall Roadshow – Restorative Sleep: Lessons Learned, Barriers Encountered, Successes Achieved

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October 22, 2019: Restorative Sleep: Lessons Learned, Barriers Encountered, Successes Achieved
Location: Orlando’s Event Center, Maryland Heights

October 29, 2019: Restorative Sleep: Lessons Learned, Barriers Encountered, Successes Achieved
Location: St. Joseph Medical Center, Kansas City

Restorative Sleep: Lessons Learned, Barriers Encountered, Successes Achieved

Presenters: Dave Walker, BSE, LNHA and Mendy Wibbenmeyer

The Restorative Sleep Vitality Program (RSVP) was an 18-month grant program sponsored by MC5. Thirty (30) skilled homes from across the state started this project and this presentation will explain some of the lessons learned, barriers encountered, and successes achieved. The goal of the program was to create a sleep culture for elders by promoting active engagement during the day and restful restorative sleep at night. This presentation will explain how sleep and lack of sleep affects a person’s 24-hour day, and will give participants some practical tips and strategies to create a Sleep Culture for their own residents. Staff from one of the collaborative homes will share their own personal experience.

This presentation will teach you the importance of Restorative Sleep by learning to identify and implement at least ten interventions to re disturbances to nighttime sleep. You will also discover the negative affect of fragmented sleep on the human body. Participating homes will share their insight and discuss how implementing Restorative Sleep as changed their culture. You will learn to apply this knowledge and make it work for your environment!

Conversations with Carmen

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September 20, 2019: The Validation® Method – Moving Beyond Therapeutic Lies and Redirection
Host & Presenter: Carmen Bowman

Learn how the Validation® method developed by Naomi Feil gives a means for successfully communicating with persons with dementia, something desperately needed by them, their caregivers and family members. Validation replaces the outmoded and person-devaluing methods of redirection, diversion, reality orientation, and the therapeutic lie. Validation teaches how to “exquisitely listen,” empathize, “move into” the disoriented person’s world and validate feelings. Using Validation® boosts self-esteem, builds trust and rapport and often eliminates the person’s need to live in the past by creating a warm and welcoming present. Learn about the basic Validation® techniques and the potential they hold to help persons living with dementia, even when there is a history of trauma.