Resources
Affinity Group Event: Patient Safety Series – Nursing Home Naloxone Policy and Procedure Toolkit
SUMMARY: Do you have naloxone policies and procedures at your nursing home? Are they comprehensive? You might be surprised to find out more is needed. This webinar will walk you through a toolkit and the steps to create comprehensive naloxone policies and procedures for your nursing home. THE LEARNER WILL BE ABLE TO: 1. Receive […]
Effective Care Coordination for Cardiac Rehabilitation-Eligible Patients
SUMMARY: Learn strategies for using the AHRQ TAKEheart framework to embed automatic referrals and care coordination into the workflow to improve cardiac rehabilitation participation. THE LEARNER WILL BE ABLE TO: Learn how to use workflow process mapping to identify situations where cardiac rehabilitation care coordination processes were not firmly established. Understand the benefits of performing […]
Pain Management for Patients with Opioid Use Disorder
SUMMARY: The presentation will help health care professionals know the difference between buprenorphine and other opioids including its use in pain management and treatment of opioid use disorder. Specifically, recommendations regarding perioperative pain management. THE LEARNER WILL BE ABLE TO: Differentiate between the pharmacologic and pharmacokinetic characteristics that make buprenorphine a unique opioid. Review issues […]
Affinity Group NH HAI Patient Safety Series
Affinity Group HAI NH Patient Safety Series (Session 8): Reducing facility associated infections and hospitalizations related to UTI, Sepsis, Pneumonia, and COVID-19
Nursing Home Readmissions Affinity Group Session 7: Communicating Across the Care Continuum
IN THIS SERIES, ATTENDEES WILL: 1. Learn about tools that engage patients and care partners starting at admission for optimal discharge success. 2. Identify strategies to engage patients and care partners after discharge to mitigate readmission risks. 3. Learn about online resources to help support goals of care conversations. Featured Speakers: Amy Daly, MA, LNHA […]
Nursing Home Readmission Affinity Group Session 6: Engaging the Patient and Care Partner
Nursing Home Patient Safety Series: Reducing Facility-Associated Infections and Hospitalizations Related to UTI, Sepsis, Pneumonia and COVID-19
SUMMARY: This session will discuss the burden of multi-drug resistant organisms (MDROs) and summarize infection prevention and control (IPC) interventions to reduce MDRO-related healthcare-associated infections that can lead to sepsis. We will also discuss enhanced barrier precautions and how to integrate them into daily IPC practices. TARGET AUDIENCE: Infection Preventionists (IP), Nursing Home leadership, Clinical […]
C. difficile Infection Reduction in Long-Term Care: Session 6 – Comprehensive Review
SUMMARY: Did you know more than 100,000 C. difficile infections developed among residents of U.S. nursing homes? Join us for the last session of our series as we review C. difficile infection reduction strategies, antibiotic stewardship, and infection prevention best practices. AFTER ATTENDING THIS SESSION, LEARNERS WILL BE ABLE TO: 1. Understand C. difficile infection […]