Clinical

Elopement can be deadly, underscoring the need for prediction, prevention, and protection to ensure a safe environment for all tenants.

This session will review steps that nursing staff should take to ensure that compliance is maintained in these vital subsections of Appendix PP.

This session will review the regulations in the environmental services subsection of Appendix PP.

Outside services in the nursing home play a vital role in much of the resident’s care including rehab, laboratory, radiology, dental, and pharmacy services. This session will review the requirements for these outside services and what nursing home staff must complete to maintain compliance.

Caregivers and nursing home staff play a pivotal role in minimizing social isolation, loneliness, depression, and behaviors in persons with dementia.  Isolation does not need to equal decline!  This session will review practical and cost-effective strategies care providers can implement to impact these areas. 

In this session, participants will learn how sensory stimulation impacts the person living with dementia.  Participants will learn how to set up a room or a space in their community using best practice design principles.  This session will offer a “design on a dime” approach to a sensory room and demonstrate to providers how to set up a room or space of their own so they can further impact the quality of life of persons with dementia without relying on pharmacology.

Using Teepa Snow’s Positive Approach to Care (PAC) Information, Retha and Lindsey will work through the basics of how the left and right side of the brain functions in a person who is living with dementia. 

This webinar will review the background and scope of respiratory illness especially as it relates to older adult populations.

This webinar provides an in-depth review of treatment ideas, home safety strategies to integrate into client care, ways to integrate technology into treatment sessions, and documentation principles for in-room sessions.

This presentation will discuss the characteristics that support a resident requiring skilled care in a skilled nursing facility.

This presentation will discuss the importance of section GG and how nursing documentation is integrated into therapy goal setting.

This presentation will discuss the documentation needed to support the coding of the non-therapy ancillary component on the MDS.

This presentation will describe etiologies that may be mistaken for pressure damage, including chronic tissue injury (CTU), Kennedy Terminal Ulcer (KTU)/skin failure, moisture associated skin damage (MASD), deep tissue pressure injury (DTPI), and others.

This webinar will explore hoarding in senior living by first defining hoarding and identifying the types of hoarding behaviors.

In this webinar, participants will gain insight into bullying within adult living communities and day centers.

In this webinar, the participants will begin by completing a brief, self-scored inventory to identify their personality traits.  This insight will help them understand themselves better and improve their interactions with others, regardless of personality similarities or differences. 

This session will provide participants with an in-depth overview of falls in senior living environments, exploring the various and diverse risk factors and situations that contribute to them—many of which are preventable.

Suicide, ideation, and self-harm among older adults are highly prevalent yet minimally researched and uncomfortably discussed topics in the United States. Older adults often exhibit many primary risk factors, including mental illness (especially depression and grief/loss), medical illness, impaired coping skills, social disconnectedness, and functional impairment.

This comprehensive eight-module clinical assessment training program equips nurses and healthcare professionals with evidence-based techniques to perform thorough, accurate patient evaluations across multiple body systems. Each module emphasizes best practices, interpretation of normal and abnormal findings, and timely clinical decision-making based on nursing judgment and when to escalate care. Designed by experts from the University of Iowa College of Nursing and other industry leaders, the program enhances competency, promotes patient safety, and supports high-quality outcomes in diverse care settings.

Upon completion of each module, participants will complete a knowledge assessment as well as on overall competency evaluation at the end of the program. Once the participant has successfully completed the competency evaluation, a certificate of completion will be issued.