Care About Care Coordination

In this non-audio course (coming soon), Attendees will learn skills and tools necessary to apply State Licensure rules in daily operations, understand why care coordination is necessary, what makes it effective, and typical barriers.

Review of licensing standards for Care Coordination,
Common survey focus areas and frequently cited deficiencies,
Challenges to monitoring Care Coordination efforts,
Understand Care Coordination barriers, measures of effectiveness, evaluation of your policy and procedure for today’s care settings.

After this course, you will be able to:

 Discuss the minimum standards for care coordination
 List at least two current trends in citing deficiencies
 Identify weakness in your agency relative to two common challenges in any Care Coordination program
 Demonstrate an understanding of Care Coordination and patient/client/family communications

Care About HIPAA, Privacy & Confidentiality

In this non-audio course we learn Administrators have a duty to ensure all workforce members understand their responsibility to abide by HIPAA rules. When co-workers become careless, the resulting damage affects the agency as well as our own personal reputation.

This Certificate eLearn course offers clear student progress indicators and unlimited replays of course material. Resume learning exactly where you left off, on your mobile, tablet, laptop or any device. The curriculum includes:

PROGRAM 2 CEUs
Privacy and Security Rules Reputational costs of HIPAA breach
Identifiers which create PHI Questions & Answers
Protecting privacy and security

After this course, you will be able to:

Distinguish between Privacy and Security rules,
Recognize situations in which confidential and protected health information can be mishandled,
Identify practical ways to protect the privacy and security of sensitive information,
Outline the duties of the Privacy Official,
Learn the costs of HIPAA breach when co-workers become careless,
Understand how mishandled confidential or protected health information is the responsibility of every worker.

Care About Immunity

The immune system uses several tools to fight infection. Join instructor Barbara Buehner, RN, BSN in this non-audio course.

Learning Objectives for this 2 CEU Course:

Explain the relationship between disease transmission and client safety
Describe the general function of the immune system
Describe the general function of the lymphatic system
Explain the differences between specific and nonspecific immunity
Explain the differences between inherited (passive) and acquired immunity and common vaccines used today
List the steps necessary to report a contagious disease

Complaint and Incident Processing Part 2

In Part 2 of this program, Jennifer Windram, RN, BSN provides CDPHE-approved training on Complaint and Incident Processing on common deficiencies as well as incorporating agency action taken into the QMP.

The program includes:

Conducting a thorough investigation and finding the best resolution,
Common survey focus areas and frequently cited deficiencies,
Incorporating complaints, incidents and occurrences into your QMP.

Personnel Qualifications, Experience, Competency and Evaluations (All About Personnel, Part 1)

Video program with Connie McWilliams to include Policy and procedure, risk areas, administrator role in human resource management, organizational chart function, personnel qualifications and experience, job description role, personnel record, surveyor probes, contractor use in direct care, direct care documents that are missing or expired, training and education policy, special skills training and client diagnoses, and the need for ongoing training – it never stops.

After completing this course, Administrator staff will:

Describe implications of personnel policies on daily duties,
Define Policy components for organizational structure, oversight, qualifications, competency, staffing, missed visits,
Discuss surveyor probes used to ascertain agency compliance with personnel standards or regulations,
Evaluate agency policy content as a method for directing client activities as well as verifying compliance with regulations

Understanding the Survey Process

In this Video program entitled Understanding the Survey Process for both skilled and non-skilled agencies to ensure Administrators are prepared for the next surprise, onsite survey. Originally written by Jennifer Windram, RN, BSN and former CDPHE Surveyor, it has been updated with video presentation now included.

QMP: All About Data

In this recorded course with Jennifer Windram, RN, BSN, learn skills and tools necessary to apply State Licensure rules in data collection and monitoring for your Quality Management Program.

This program includes overall requirements for a compliant quality management program and QMP components such as: data collection, data monitoring, identifying problems and areas for improvement, implementing corrective/improvement actions and monitoring those actions to decide if they were effective or not.

In this course, Quality Management – All about Data, we focus on the data collection and monitoring aspect of a QM program. This will include a more in-depth discussion of data collection and data compilation methods, with additional sample tools to help you streamline your data collection and documentation processes. (The Quality Management Basics course is recommended prior to taking Quality Management – All about Data, but it is not required).

This Certificate Workshop will include the following curriculum, with interactive discussions, presentations and case studies. The curriculum in this 2 CEU Program includes:

Review of licensing standards for the quality management program
Indicators: process vs outcome, how to choose
Common data sources
Methods to collect, compile and present data
Data collection pitfalls
Modifying existing data collection processes
After this course, you will be able to:

 Discuss the minimum standards for quality management relative to data collection
 List at least three current trends in citing deficiencies
 Identify opportunities to improve and streamline your data collection activities
 Demonstrate an understanding of how to effectively document quality management data collection

Workshop Handouts and Activities
Attendees will receive client and personnel file audit tools, a sample audit tool for focused audits, and examples of spreadsheets and other tools to compile and present data.

 

Emergency Preparedness

Significant Federal Emergency preparedness regulations took effect November 15, 2017. The goal of this 2-hour video program with Jennifer Windram, RN, BSN and former CDPHE Surveyor is to provide the fundamentals of the Federal rules along with the rules of CO Licensure.

Four broad standards of the new rule
Policies & procedures + training program & drills
Coordination with other healthcare facilities
Coordination with the Community as a whole
Evaluation, Competency Exam

Workshop Objectives
You will learn the skills necessary to show a clear understanding and appropriate application of Emergency Preparedness Standards. After this course, you will be able to:
Identify four key emergency preparedness standards in an overall program.
Locate and review key websites constantly updated by CMS with details for implementation.
Identify waivers to other regulations and standards during emergencies.
Discuss how you will coordinate with other healthcare facilities, as well as the whole community.
Learn about your communication plan that complies with federal and state laws and loops in other area providers.
Understand the requirements and format for the HCA annual review of the overall Program.

BONUS: FORMS AND POLICIES APPROPRIATE FOR 2017 STANDARDS