Resources

   Resources

QUALITY IMPROVEMENT (QI)/QUALITY MEASURES (QM):

QM Specification Manual

Resident Assessment Instrument (RAI) Manual

TOOLS:

PRU TRACKING + TRENDING

FALLS TRACKING + TRENDING

QI PROCESS TOPICS:

The Pioneer Network’s free Starter Toolkit for Engaging Staff in Individualizing Care
Your quality improvement efforts depend on how well your team communicates, problem-solves, and works together……………… Learn how to kick-start your Quality Improvement (QI) program using key organizational practices. The Pioneer Network’s free Starter Toolkit for Engaging Staff in Individualizing Care, produced by B&F Consulting, contains tip sheets and media clips providing how-to information, and starter exercises to get the change conversations going in your nursing facility.

Nursing Home Fact Sheet: Staff Stability

Achieving Staff Stability – apply the QAPI process of staff stability, including goal setting, collecting and using data and piloting improvements. Click this link to view the webinar.

Nursing Home Fact Sheet: Consistent Assignment

Huddles Tip Sheet

Systems for Communication, Teamwork, and Collaborative Problem-Solving – monitoring and systematic analysis of QAPI, ways to systematically involve staff in the feedback data, how to implement consistent assignment and practices that maximize the benefits of consistent assignment. Click this link to view the webinar.

QI Huddles Closest to the Resident Tip Sheet

Involving CNAs in Care Planning Tip Sheet

NH REGULATIONS + GUIDES:

• State Operations Manual Appendix PP – Interpretive Guidelines for Long Term Care
• The New York State Nursing Homes regulations, Title 10 Part 415 of the New York Compilation of Rules and Regulations (NYCRR)

QI COMMUNICATION:

• TeamSTEPPS®: Strategies and Tools to Enhance Performance and Patient Safety- Long term Care Version
  • Check Back Video
  • I PASS the BATON Video
• SBAR
  • SBAR Video
• INTERACT