Provide quality resident care with 395 expert-reviewed, regulatory-compliant procedures. Ensure consistent documentation and care across all disciplines a critical component to survey success.
Every nursing home needs procedures to ensure quality care is provided and for legal protection. Don't put your facility in jeopardy with in-house procedures that may not be up to current clinical and regulatory standards.
This book offers:
 - A quick reference when treating residents The procedures will guide frontline staff through clinical issues they encounter every day. - Preparation for your next survey Surveyors will check your facility's procedures to verify you're providing quality care that meets the regulations. - Training for new long-term care nurses Many nurses have little formal long-term care training before they start working in nursing homes. These procedures will provide guidance and ensure that nursing staff provide consistent, compliant care. - A consistent format - Every procedure includes a list of supplies and the exact steps to take to perform it.

Nursing Procedure Guide for Long-Term Care

Barbara Acello MS RN

HCPRO

Medical Books

HCPro

Is your library of long-term care tools and forms a bit cluttered or a challenge to navigate? Minimize space and save time searching for the clinical, legal, and daily maintenance related forms you need with Clinical Tools and Forms for Long-Term Care.
This valuable book combines an extensive collection of long-term care tools and forms from author Barbara Acello, MS, RN, into an all-in-one comprehensive resource. Including clinical forms such as pain and activities of daily living assessments, as well as regulatory forms such as HIPAA rules and regulations, infection control, and facility-specific policies, the book's content is organized by topic so long-term care providers can instantly reference, download, and implement the forms they need.
Table of Contents
 Clinical - Admission, Transfer, Discharge - Assessment, Nursing - Audits &amp; Checklists - Code/Medical Emergency - Diabetes Monitoring &amp; Medication - Enteral, Parenteral Nutrition - Falls - Infection Control - Medicare - Medication - Miscellaneous - Nursing Assistant - Nursing (Licensed) Documentation - Nutrition (Oral) and Hydration - Pain - Physician Services - Restraints - Skin/Pressure Ulcer/Skin Tears - Social Services/Behavior/Mental Health - Vital Signs, Height/Weight - Wandering/Eloping
 Documentation - Audits &amp; Checklists - Certificates - Code/Medical Emergency - Employee Issues/Human Resources - Infection Control - In-Service/Education - Miscellaneous - Nursing Assistant - Nursing (Licensed) Documentation - Report - Resident Consents and Releases - Social Services/Behavior/Mental Health - Wandering/Eloping
 Legal - Advance Directive, DNR (No Code), POLST, Vial of Life - Contracts and Agreements - Employee Issues/Human Resources - Medicare - Nursing (Licensed) Documentation - Resident Consents and Releases
 Restorative - ADL - Bowel and Bladder - Restorative Nursing - Task Analysis
 Top 10 Forms - Restorative Nursing Care of Plan Form - Admission Bladder Assessment Form - Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment - Vaccine Consent - Elopement Patterning Tool - Behavioral Scale for Cognitively Impaired Adults - Brink/Yesavage Geriatric Depression Scale - Skin Tear Risk Assessment - Fall Prevention Assessment - Medicare Redetermination Request Form
Who should read this book?
 - Administrators - Directors of nursing (DON) - Nurses - Assistant DONs - Staff educators - Clinical managers - Directors - Nurse managers - QA committee members - Quality assurance staff

Clinical Tools and Forms for Long-Term Care

HCPro a division of BLR

HCPro, a division of BLR

Initial assessments can be tricky without proper documentation, home health providers could lose earned income or experience payment delays, and publicly reported quality outcomes affected by poor assessment documentation could negatively impact an agency's reputation.
Ensure that no condition or symptom is overlooked and documentation is as accurate as possible with Home Health Assessment Criteria: 75 Checklists for Skilled Nursing Documentation. This indispensable resource provides the ultimate blueprint for accurately assessing patients' symptoms and conditions to ensure regulatory compliance and proper payment. It will help agencies deliver more accurate assessments and thorough documentation, create better care plans and improve patient outcomes, prepare for surveys, and ensure accurate OASIS reporting.
All of the book's 75-plus checklists are also available electronically with purchase, facilitating agency-wide use and letting home health clinicians and field staff easily access content no matter where they are.
This book will help homecare professionals:
 - Easily refer to checklists, organized by condition, to properly assess a new patient - Download and integrate checklists for use in any agency s system - Obtain helpful guidance on assessment documentation as it relates to regulatory compliance - Appropriately collect data for coding and establish assessment skill proficiency
TABLE OF CONTENTS
 Section 1: Assessment Documentation Guidelines Section 2: General Assessment Documentation Section 3: Neurological Assessment Documentation Section 4: Respiratory Assessment Documentation Section 5: Cardiovascular Assessment Documentation Section 6: Gastrointestinal Assessment Documentation Section 7: Genitourinary Assessment Documentation Section 8: Integumentary Assessment Documentation Section 9: Musculoskeletal Assessment Documentation Section 10: Endocrine Assessment Documentation Section 11: Eyes, Ears, Nose, Throat Assessment Documentation Section 12: Hematologic Assessment Documentation Section 13: Nutritional Assessment Documentation Section 14: Psychosocial Assessment Documentation Section 15: Infusion Assessment Documentation

Home Health Assessment Criteria: 75 Checklists for Skilled Nursing Documentation

Lynn Riddle Brown RN BSN CRNI COS-C

Solutions and information for virtually every scenario that occurs in your nursing home 
It’s vitally important that long-term care nurses have a resource by their side that addresses all of their unique and wide-ranging clinical and regulatory concerns. Turn to the second edition of this HCPro bestseller! It’s still the only reference manual available that offers virtually every tool long-term care nurses need to provide high-quality, regulation-compliant, long-term resident care. Quick answers to everyday problems in long-term care Long-term care nurses can rely on this authoritative reference daily. The Long-term Care Nursing Desk Reference, Second Edition is packed with practical, need-to-know resident care information, essential policies and procedures, and vital regulatory and safety requirements specific to long-term care. Author Barbara Acello, RN, MSN, has updated each section of this bestseller with particular attention to hot-button issues such as pain, pressure ulcers, medication administration, infection control, hydration, and nutrition. This comprehensive desk reference provides: <ul>
<li>Detailed information about common long-term care clinical issues</li> <li>Valuable tools and practical information about hundreds of clinical conditions</li> <li>Timely and relevant updates that help you stay current and compliant </li> <li>One go-to resource for all your clinical needs</li> <li>Comprehensive, detailed sections that make it easy to find what you need</li> </ul> Bonus CD-ROM included! The companion CD-ROM contains vital tools and forms that help nurses save time and effort. You get ready-made resources such as depression and social adjustment scales, lawsuit prevention checklists, and pain assessment questionnaires.

The Long-term Care Nursing Desk Reference, Second Edition

Nursing

HCPro, Inc.

Practical and functional strategies for nursing assistants to advance their restorative skills
Ensure that your nursing assistants provide top-notch restorative care
This book is written specifically for RNAs or nursing assistants to help them provide quality restorative care. Author Barbara Acello, MS, RN, offers detailed nursing procedures that do not fall under therapy treatment and must be provided by your nursing staff. Whether your facility has a staff dedicated to restorative care or not this resource will serve as a much-needed source of critical information that is not taught during regular CNA inservices or educational training.
At more than 250 pages, this book includes:
- Step by step procedures and guidelines to help nursing assistants provide and document advanced restorative care - Specific methods to prove nursing assistants are trained and qualified to provide restorative care - Examples of holistic restorative nursing care that promotes resident independence and helps residents attain and maintain the highest level of health and well-being possible - The most common survey citations and declines related to restorative care and how to prevent them - A companion CD-ROM with dozens of tools such as Restorative Nursing Record, Restorative Nursing Flow Sheet, and an ADL Flow Sheet
Take a look at the Table of Contents:
Chapter 1: Introduction to Restorative Nursing Chapter 2: Applying Evidence-Based Practice and Critical Thinking in Restorative Care Chapter 3: Musculoskeletal and Nervous Systems, Part 1 General Conditioning Chapter 4: Musculoskeletal System, Part 2 Bed Mobility Chapter 5: Musculoskeletal System, Part 3 Transfers Chapter 6: Wheelchair Mobility Chapter 7: Ambulation Chapter 8: Introduction to Pain Management in the Long-Term Care Facility Chapter 9: Restorative Fluid Balance and Bowel and Bladder Management Chapter 10: Pressure Ulcers and Other Skin Conditions Chapter 11: Restorative Care in Bathing, Personal Hygiene, Dressing, and Grooming Chapter 12: Restorative Meal Service and Dining Chapter 13: Restorative Nursing Care of Residents with Respiratory Conditions Chapter 14: Restorative Nursing Care of Residents with Sensory Problems Chapter 15: Restorative Documentation

The Long-Term Care Nursing Assistant's Guide to Advanced Restorative Skills

Allied Health Professions

Introducing the ultimate blueprint for accurately assessing the symptom or condition presented by any patient. The home health clinical team can use this electronic CD resource to quickly find a checklist of what to look for during an assessment. As a result, your agency will deliver more accurate assessments and more thorough documentation, and ultimately create the best plan of care for the patient.
Each checklist can be downloaded and printed from the CD to fit directly into the patient's record to ensure consistency with every assessment and accuracy in documentation. Clinical Quick Reference for Homecare is the most convenient way to guarantee your patients receive the proper care and your agency maintains compliant documentation.
How you will benefit from this book:
 - Save time finding the correct assessment guidelines for a patient s condition with searchable, electronic checklists - Ensure consistency of care for each patient by guaranteeing that they are subjected to the same assessment criteria, regardless of the clinician - Access more than 75 checklists to assess and document patient status, including cardiovascular, hematologic, and musculoskeletal conditions - Avoid survey citations, lost payment, and legal implications arising from improper documentation - Access assessment checklists from anywhere since they are on CD, they are also portable!
Table of Contents
 Section 1.0: Assessment Documentation Guidelines Section 2.0: General Assessment Documentation Section 3.0: Neurological Assessment Documentation Section 4.0: Respiratory Assessment Documentation Section 5.0: Cardiovascular Assessment Documentation Section 6.0: Gastrointestinal Assessment Documentation Section 7.0: Genitourinary Assessment Documentation Section 8.0: Integumentary Assessment Documentation Section 9.0: Musculoskeletal Assessment Documentation Section 10.0: Endocrine Assessment Documentation Section 11.0: Eyes, Ears, Nose, Throat Assessment Documentation Section 12.0: Hematologic Assessment Documentation Section 13.0: Nutritional Assessment Documentation Section 14.0: Psychosocial Assessment Documentation Section 15.0: Infusion Assessment Documentation

Clinical Quick Reference for Homecare

Administration & Medicine Economics

The official study guide for LPN-CLTC certification from NADONA The role of a licensed practical nurse (LPN) in long-term care is both demanding and rewarding. This guide, a must-have resource for new and seasoned LPNs, will examine the important clinical and management aspects of the LPN practice in long-term care while providing tips and tools for the supervision of nursing assistants. Authors Laura Grey More, MSW, LCSW, and Barbara Acello, MS, RN, point out common medical conditions and high-risk signs and symptoms to guide clinical practice and provide practical strategies for resident care in line with long-term care facility regulations. In addition to providing specific training for long-term care, this book can be used as a study guide for the LPN-CLTC certification offered by the National Association of Directors of Nursing Administration in Long-Term Care (NADONA). The test questions available in this guide have been designed to help you prepare for this certification. The Long-Term Care Licensed Practical Nurse Field Guide will help you: - Understand the role of the LPN in long-term care - Identify age-related changes in elders and strategies to improve function and quality of life - Recognize high-risk signs and symptoms for prompt action - Improve leadership skills for supervision of nursing assistants. Practical tips are given for education, workflow, and personnel issues in supervising nursing assistants - Learn practical responses to legal and regulatory issues in long-term care - Prepare to become a Certified LPN in LTC (LPN-CLTC) Test questions after each chapter offer practice for the online LPN-CLTC exam given by the National Association of Directors of Nursing Administration in Long-Term Care (NADONA). Table of Contents Introduction Chapter 1: The Role of the LPN in Long-Term Care Chapter 2: The Dermatological System Chapter 3: The Respiratory System Chapter 4: The Cardiovascular System Chapter 5: The Neurological System Chapter 6: The Gastrointestinal System Chapter 7: The Musculoskeletal System Chapter 8: The Genitourinary System Chapter 9: The Endocrine System Chapter 10: Legal Issues in Long-Term Care Chapter 11: Regulatory Aspects of Long-Term Care Chapter 12: Admission Chapter 13: Resident Rights Chapter 14: Incidents and Accidents Chapter 15: Restraints Chapter 16: Infections Chapter 17: Death and Dying Chapter 18: Medication Management Chapter 19: Restorative Nursing Chapter 20: Physician Orders Terms Common Abbreviations and Acronyms Become a Certified LPN in Long-Term Care Tools Downloads of additional content are available online. These include valuable resources and references for the LPN/LVN in long-term care, including assertive communication, antipsychotic medication, performance evaluations, vital signs pointing to an acute change in condition, and many others.

The Long-Term Care Licensed Practical Nurse Field Gude

Laura Grey More MSW LCSW

Save time while achieving accurate, comprehensive documentation for every resident in your facilityThis resource, designed to be used at the resident's bedside, will help nurses improve their efficiency and quality of documentation by guiding them through 150 of the most common conditions, procedures, and situations encountered in a long-term care facility. With a detailed and comprehensive description of each symptom or condition, nurses will have a thorough list of what to check for and what to document during every shift, based on the specific circumstances of a given resident. Guarantee your residents receive the best quality of care and ensure your facility maintains compliant documentation with the help of Clinical Documentation Quick Reference for Long-Term Care.
Clinical Documentation Quick Reference for Long-Term Care will:
 - Help nurses save time while achieving accurate, comprehensive documentation for every resident in their care - Provide clinicians with documentation procedures for the 150 most common conditions, procedures, and situations encountered in long-term care - Aid in identifying problems and related interventions through assessment guidelines by system

Clinical Documentation Quick Reference for Long-Term Care

Pressure injuries and documentation are often among the most frequently cited survey deficiencies, and wound care is the subject of continuous research. Most recently, in April 2016, the National Pressure Ulcer Advisory Panel (NPUAP) approved revisions to its Pressure Injury Staging System. Pressure Injuries in Long-Term Care: A Toolkit for Clinical Staff is full of evidence-based strategies and downloadable assessment tools and in-services to educate your staff about preventing, treating, and assessing pressure injuries. Long-term care is shifting its focus from volume to value, with an emphasis on star ratings that result in increased (or decreased) reimbursement. This resource will help staff overcome documentation problems and better assess wounds and infections, saving time in clinical practice and staff training while avoiding errors that could lead to noncompliance. This book will help you: - Provide evidence-based training and education to staff - Understand the most up-to-date NPUAP pressure injury stages and staging instructions - Establish or update your facility s guidelines through sample policies and procedures - Increase quality care and reimbursement - Avoid survey deficiencies at F-tag 314 What's New? This updated book will serve as an initial training guide and can be reviewed regularly as a resource. It will also offer a toolkit to providers for educational purposes, including:  - Downloadable in-services - Case studies - Sample policies and procedures - Assessment tools

Pressure Injuries in Long-Term Care: A Toolkit for Clinical Staff

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