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CAUSE NO HARM TOOL KIT

The Change Package is a description and list of successful practices of high-performing nursing homes (i.e., how they prevent harm while honoring each resident’s rights and preferences), organized by overarching themes, and includes strategies to prevent specific adverse events and abuse.

The Change Package can be used by nursing home leaders (e.g., administrators, directors of nursing, unit directors/​managers, providers, and owners), residents and families, long term care stakeholders, and anyone with an interest in preventing harm in nursing homes.

Ideas for improvement can be generated by reviewing the practices listed and comparing those to practices currently in place. Ideas for improvement can be used for quality improvement purposes in order to improve each resident’s quality of life through safe care.

All Cause Harm Prevention in Nursing Homes

All Cause Harm Prevention in Nursing Homes Change Package

NURSING HOME CHANGE PACKAGE

Nursing home Change Packages focuses on the systems that impact quality care providing  strategies, change concepts, and specific actionable items that any nursing home can choose to begin testing to improve  residents’ quality of life and care.

Nursing Home Change Package

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