The Long Term Care Restorative Nursing Desk Reference

The Long-Term Care Restorative Nursing Desk Reference is a new all-inclusive desk reference that describes the clinical aspects of restorative nursing in detail and provides a much-needed guide for nurses in a long-term care facility. This book offers the help you need to create or sustain an effective restorative care program that puts your resident's needs first.

From pain assessment methods to intravenous drip calculations, the Long-Term Care Nursing Desk Reference offers long-term care nurses virtually every tool they need to provide high-quality, regulation-compliant, long-term resident care. Written by accomplished author and speaker Barbara Acello, MS, RN, this authoritative reference is jam-packed with practical, need-to-know patient care information, essential policies and procedures, and vital regulatory and safety requirements. In short, the Long-Term Care Nursing Desk Reference is the book you and your nurses have been waiting for!

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

204 pages and CD. Includes FREE 2019 MDS Assessment Scheduling Calendar. Current with all RAI Manual and PDPM Updates, Surveyor Guidelines and Federal Regulatory Changes. 15 complete Restorative programs. 65 Forms and Goal-specific Restorative Nursing Care Plans.Data Collection tools, Comprehensive Evaluations. Inservices on ADLs, Range of Motion, Transfers and Lifts, and Restorative Dining. This manual provides the essential information, forms, and nursing care plans to facilitate the organization and efficiency of a Restorative Nursing program. The first section gives a full description of the Restorative Nursing position and definitions and criteria of a Restorative Nursing program. Helpful tools are provided to assure easy and comprehensive data collection, completion of MDS 3.0 information, analysis of data, and recording of vital information. Sections are included for thirteen different Restorative Nursing programs, and provide evaluations, assessments, and Restorative Nursing care plans. Restorative care plans and forms have been updated to ensure compliance with the change to MDS version 3.0 and with all of the federal regulations and guidelines updated during the past year. All of the forms and care plans in the book are included on the CD so they can be saved to a computer whenever needed. By adding or deleting entries, the forms and care plans can be made resident specific.

This comprehensive text provides the content necessary for training nursing assistants to provide restorative care in long-term care facilities, as required by OBRA law. The content includes measurable objectives and interventions to optimize resident care and to enable facilities to gain maximum reimbursement. This text provides all the information necessary to train nursing assistants in restorative care, as well as, the information required to implement a restorative care training program. It enables the necessary training to advance the certified nursing assistant to the restorative nursing assistant level. Thus, facilities to attain the goal of maintaining or improving residents' conditions. The text focuses on techniques to promote resident involvement, thereby improving resident independence and self-esteem. ALSO AVAILABLE - INSTRUCTOR SUPPLEMENTS CALL CUSTOMER SUPPORT TO ORDER Instructor's Manual ISBN: 0-8273-8142-5 Computerized Testbank ISBN: 0-7668-1433-5

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Clinical Tools and Forms for Long-Term Care Barbara Acello, MS, RN 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 & Checklists Code/Medical Emergency Diabetes Monitoring & 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 & 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 "