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Skilled Nursing Facilities, Palliative Care, Hospice and End of Life Care.
D3.1. You have been hired as a consultant to the city government to conduct a survey of caregivers. Who will you define as a caregiver? How will you pick your sample? What will you ask? What are the salient issues that you will want to cover?
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Week 4. Quality of Care: The Changing Long Term Care Landscape
Evidence based (outcome-based quality indicators) approaches to quality improvement, collection and dissemination of standardized measures, enhancing quality in nursing homes, home care, and community care venues.
Topic
What are the major strengths and weaknesses of the nursing home survey process in assuring that residents have high levels of quality of care and quality of life?
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What do you consider to be the key areas for developing quality metrics in home and community based care? Which ones are easier to measure than others?
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Week 5. LTC Finance
Topic
Your task as the nursing home administrator is determine the method for tracking and managing the patient account fund. What protocols would you have in place? Lastly, what type of human resources personnel would you hire for this key activity?
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Locate and post an article from any source and published during the last 12 months, that discusses a financial issue related to adult day care, assisted living, or home health care financing (NO articles on nursing homes). Try to choose an article that has practical implications.
The article should not be one assigned in the class or one chosen by another student. Do not post a link to the UMGC library, but attach the article to your response or post a link that anyone can use to access the article. Provide a brief summary of the article and answer each the following questions:
Week 6.Management, Leadership, and Human Resources
Topic
Locate and describe one public interest group, aging service, or professional organization that you believe has or can have the most influence on political decisions related to LTC. They should have a strong advocacy shop with a proven track record of successfully advocating for their members. Why do you believe this? Use specific examples. You can focus on a national, state, or local level. (Do not pick AARP as they are the most obvious choice).
Identify the three highest-ranking issues on their political agendas. Why are these issues the highest-ranking issues?
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In recent years, we have witnessed unprecedented shifts in societal values, some of which can offer challenges to organizational operations. Watch Gray Gays: Aging as an LGBT adult (5:56). What are two unique challenges facing the elderly LGBT population? How can the typical nursing home or assisted living facility address the unique needs of this population?
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Perform an internet search on the term “long term care staffing crisis”. What do your findings indicate? Evaluate the issues and offer practical substantiated solutions.
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Week 7. Legal Issues and Ethics
Please respond to the following questions in the discussion created for this purpose.
Try to extend the observations already made in the lecture and include what you found doing your paper.
Topic
Laws regulating skilled nursing facilities and assisted living facilities vary by state. However, most states’ regulations address emergency and disaster preparedness, fire safety, staff training, medication management, resident privacy, and background checks. Choose two states and research their statutes and regulations regarding LTC facilities. What do the regulations in these states say about one of these issues? Where do you see the greatest differences in regulations? To what do you attribute this?
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Week 8. Ethics, Regulations and Litigation
Topic
Laws regulating skilled nursing facilities and assisted living facilities vary by state. However, most states’ regulations address emergency and disaster preparedness, fire safety, staff training, medication management, resident privacy, and background checks. Choose two states and research their statutes and regulations regarding LTC facilities. What do the regulations in these states say about one of these issues? Where do you see the greatest differences in regulations? To what do you attribute this? Should the family have been consulted? Should the age have impacted the decisions? What about the fact that the use of services limited access for others? Provide your concluding thoughts and supportive evidence from credible sources.
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Pick one of the questions to answer. Copy the question in the answer for reference. Make sure to provide credible supporting evidence for your conclusions and recommendations.
Week 9. LTC Practice, Qualifications and Oversight
Topic
After reviewing Chapter 7 – Survey and Enforcement Process for Skilled Nursing Facilities and Nursing Facilities, in the State Operations Manual, summarize the primary purpose and focus of the survey mechanism. How does this differ from other sectors of healthcare (or does it)? Is the survey process a valuable exercise or unnecessary over-regulation? Why?
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What are the benefits of interdisciplinary team management of patient care as practiced in hospice and palliative care? Are there potential lessons learned for improving the quality of traditional medical care? What specific tools, skills, and qualifications interdisciplinary team members need to master to offer an effective and efficient customer-centered experience? What would you personally do to develop these skills?
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Week 10. Culture, Environment Design, and Technology
Topic
D10.1.
Watch http://www.ted.com/talks/eric_topol_the_wireless_future_of_medicine (16:58)
While this talk is a bit dated, the issues presented remain relevant. What innovations are currently being developed in health care and how might these innovations change the current long-term care landscape?
Consider technological tools used in long term care such as call systems, wandering alarms, fall alarms, behavioral RPM systems, rule-based behavioral monitoring, vital sign monitoring, teleconferencing, electronic health records, and home care information systems. Pick one tool to write about. What does the tool do exactly? How does it reshape the way in which care is provided? Has it been widely adopted in the US? How much does it cost? Write a scenario where the tool is needed and adopted. Describe the need, the approach to adoption, barriers to adoption, how barriers were overcome, and the positive outcomes that emerged from using the tool over time.
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Week 11. Strategic Marketing
Topic
Locate the websites of 3 different providers of assisted living facilities, adult day care services, or a CCRC. No nursing homes. You should have three websites for the same type of provider/facility:
NHA Exam offers an overview of national standards. Look up the specific requirements for a state other than that in which you live. Briefly describe the requirements and how they relate to the survey and accreditation processes. Explain how an internal successful Administrator in Training program affects marketing activities in the LTC community.
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Week 12. The Future and Final Comments
Topic
Post your thoughts on the impact of Lecture 12 and on the future of long term care and health administration.
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Please post your comments about the class.
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