For all Administrators, Directors of Nursing, and Quality Assurance (QA)/Quality Improvement (QI) Directors or Coordinators, this is not only required reading for your facilities, but more important, it is a practical tool to guide you as you prepare for your survey. As the saying goes, Your facility must be survey-ready 365 days a year. So use this book to help you get readyand stay ready. The Fundamentals of Quality for LTC, Part I gives you the F-Tags, as well as the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) Interpretive Guidelines and Guidance to Surveyors. This is a comprehensive monitoring tool for all disciplines to use in an interdisciplinary format. It covers the Federal Long Term Care Regulations 42 CFR 483.10 Resident Rights through 483.20 Resident Assessment. Because this is such a practical tool, it is a book that staff will keep handy at their desks to use for monitoring purposes and for quick reference. It will help the Interdisciplinary Team (IDT)including one of the most important and busiest groups, the Certified Nursing Assistants (CNAs) maintain awareness of the expectations of the Federal and State Surveyors. It will also keep the staffs focus on Quality of Care and Quality of Life.

This book, selected for inclusion in Doody's Core Titles in the Health Sciences, 2005 edition (DCT), will inform you about the theoretical and practical applications of culture change within the institutional long-term care setting. It examines existing models of positive cultures, emphasizing philosophy, underpinning, and implementation. You'll gain a greater understanding of theoretical frameworks for organizational change, of the changes that can occur in all members of the long-term care community, and of culture change in the context of broad organizational experience and cultural competence.

Long Term Care Quality and Pleasant Resident Mealtime Workbook This Workbook focus on helping Facilities make certain that leadership and staff keep the focus on Quality and also on residents meeting their nutritional status and needs as well as having a pleasant mealtime experience in the nursing home. The Author highlights the primary Department Leaders with the primary Roles and Responsibilities to achieve this goal for the residents. The leaders and Department Heads with the key responsibilities for this care area are: • The Administrators • The Directors of Nursing • The Dietitians • The Food Service Directors/Managers • The Nurse Managers/Nursing Supervisors/Charge Nurses and Certified Nursing Assistants/Certified Nurse Aides • The QAPI Director/Coordinator The Author makes it easy for you to find your regulations F-tags that relate to your work care area, out of the voluminous regulations. She gives you the F-Tags Regulations by Department and area of responsibility. So turn the pages to your job responsibility and you will find the F-Tags that relate to you. The Workbook also gives you: • Self-Reflection questions for you to assess your skills set • Practical Tips for your job responsibilities • Case Studies & Exercises To Do • Remarks – the author’s insight and advise for additional focus The Workbook is an excellent resource to help you make a difference in the lives of the residents while providing quality of care, quality of life, and pleasant mealtime experience, and at the same time reducing some of the challenges in your facilities.

This volume, developed by the Observatory together with OECD, provides an overall conceptual framework for understanding and applying strategies aimed at improving quality of care. Crucially, it summarizes available evidence on different quality strategies and provides recommendations for their implementation. This book is intended to help policy-makers to understand concepts of quality and to support them to evaluate single strategies and combinations of strategies.

An international survey of different approaches to the provision and regulation of long-term care for the elderly.

Meal time is an opportunity for residents to experience good "Quality of Life" in their "home", while they interact with each other and with the staff. These monitoring tools will help the staff gauge whether the residents are having a great meal time experience, a good meal time experience, or a not so good meal time experience. When surveyors come to your facility this is one of the important aspects of care they observe. These tools will help you before the surveyors walk through your doors.

"Nurses play a vital role in improving the safety and quality of patient car -- not only in the hospital or ambulatory treatment facility, but also of community-based care and the care performed by family members. Nurses need know what proven techniques and interventions they can use to enhance patient outcomes. To address this need, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), with additional funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, has prepared this comprehensive, 1,400-page, handbook for nurses on patient safety and quality -- Patient Safety and Quality: An Evidence-Based Handbook for Nurses. (AHRQ Publication No. 08-0043)." - online AHRQ blurb, http://www.ahrq.gov/qual/nurseshdbk/