Providing optimal care requires meticulous and supportive documentation, particularly in activities of daily living (ADL), identifying functional declines, and restorative nursing. This presentation is designed to empower healthcare professionals with the essential skills and knowledge to create comprehensive and accurate documentation that ensures the delivery of person-centered and effective ADL care for residents.
Learning Objectives
1. Participants will gain an understanding of the importance of capturing residents' functional abilities, preferences, and any changes in their ADL status.
2. Participants will develop effective communication skills tailored to documenting ADL care, functional declines, and restorative nursing interventions.
3. Participants will accurately communicate individualized restorative care plans in the documentation to support continuity of care and maximize residents' independence.
Target Audience:
Nursing staff, DONs, IDT
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2:30 pm - 4 pm EST
15 min Explore the foundational principles and key components of documenting activities of daily living (ADL) care and capturing residents? functional abilities, preferences, and changes in their ADL status.
15 min Discuss how to use standardized tools to measure and track changes in mobility, cognition, and other functional areas, facilitating early intervention and person-centered care.
15 min Review the regulatory framework governing ADL and functional decline documentation in SNFs and the implications of incomplete or inaccurate documentation on facility compliance and resident well-being.
15 min Discuss best practices for documenting restorative nursing interventions designed to maintain or improve residents' functional abilities.
Additional time available for questions & answers.
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Eleisha Wilkes, RN, GERO-BC, RAC-CTA, RAC-CT, DNS-CT, Clinical Consultant
Eleisha Wilkes is a Board Certified Gerontological Nurse and AAPACN certified MDS consultant with over twenty years of experience in long term care.
She has served as a Director of Nursing, Case Manager and Resident Assessment Coordinator with extensive responsibility and success in driving QA in the areas of person-centered assessment and care planning through effective systems, staff development, and interdisciplinary team collaboration. Eleisha specializes in RAI completion, MDS validation audits, Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement compliance, competency-based staff education programs, and works with clients extensively to facilitate SNF/NF survey readiness. She also contributes to McKnight?s LTC News as the ?Ask the Payment Expert? columnist.
Eleisha currently serves as an RN Clinical Consultant with Proactive Medical Review & Consulting, LLC.
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One (1.0) contact hours each session; Nursing Home Administrators - NAB approved through Proactive LTC Consulting. Ohio Nurses may use this approval toward their licensure renewal.
To earn CE, attendee must log in on time and attend entire program.
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How Much Does It Cost?
Individual Webinar Registration Fee:
Members, early $55 per person
Non Members, early, $110 per person
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