Resources
Patient Safety Series – Opioid ADEs in Nursing Homes – Pain Management in the Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Setting: Clinical Practice Guidelines Overview
SUMMARY: Dr. Levenson chaired the workgroup responsible for writing the guidelines. He will be highlighting the guideline’s important questions and steps while incorporating real life patient cases. Additionally, Dr. Levenson will incorporate information from the newly released 2022 CDC Opioid Prescribing Guidelines. THE LEARNER WILL BE ABLE TO: 1. Identify pain issues that arise in […]
Patient Safety Series – Opioid ADEs in Nursing Homes – Pain Management in the Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Setting: Clinical Practice Guidelines Overview
SUMMARY: Dr. Levenson chaired the workgroup responsible for writing the guidelines. He will be highlighting the guideline’s important questions and steps while incorporating real life patient cases. Additionally, Dr. Levenson will incorporate information from the newly released 2022 CDC Opioid Prescribing Guidelines. THE LEARNER WILL BE ABLE TO: 1. Identify pain issues that arise in […]
Patient Safety Series – Opioid ADEs in Nursing Homes – Pain Management in the Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Setting: Clinical Practice Guidelines Overview
SUMMARY: Dr. Levenson chaired the workgroup responsible for writing the guidelines. He will be highlighting the guideline’s important questions and steps while incorporating real life patient cases. Additionally, Dr. Levenson will incorporate information from the newly released 2022 CDC Opioid Prescribing Guidelines. THE LEARNER WILL BE ABLE TO: 1. Identify pain issues that arise in […]
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 pneumonia in nursing home facilities, steps to prevent pneumonia in nursing home residents, and infection prevention and control tools for pneumonia surveillance. TARGET AUDIENCE: Infection Preventionists (IP), Nursing Home leadership, Clinical leadership. IN THIS SERIES, ATTENDEES WILL LEARN: New knowledge and tools surrounding the diagnosis, treatment, and […]
C. difficile Infection Reduction in Long Term Care: Session Four – Surveillance, Data Tracking, and Reporting
SUMMARY: Did you know more than 100,000 C. difficile infections developed among residents of U.S. nursing homes? Join us for the fourth in a series of six sessions to learn how to implement a plan to reduce the risk of C. difficile infections among residents at your nursing home. Throughout the series, we will provide […]
C difficile Infection Reduction in Long Term Care: Environmental Cleaning and Disinfection
OBJECTIVES: 1) Understand the difference between cleaning and disinfecting. 2) Identify the EPA List K cleaning agents that are effective against C. difficile. 3) Develop a guideline to describe who cleans what in the nursing facility.
Nursing Home Patient Safety Series: Reducing Facility-Associated Infections and Hospitalizations Related to UTI, Sepsis, Pneumonia and COVID-19
SUMMARY: This session will review the burden of sepsis in nursing home facilities, steps to prevent sepsis in nursing home residents, and tools and resources for the early recognition and management of sepsis. TARGET AUDIENCE: Infection Preventionists (IP), Nursing Home leadership, Clinical leadership.