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Tools to Help Reduce Falls
Preventing falls is a challenge in every nursing home. These two resources can you help assess fall risk and prevent falls at your facility.
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Permalink GalleryEffective Communication with Seniors Leads to Better Engagement
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Effective Communication with Seniors Leads to Better Engagement
Healthcare professionals should engage older patients in conversations that encourage discussion and actively listening to what they have to say. This is according to a recent column focusing on effective communication with seniors.
“Caregivers need to talk ‘with’ their older patients and involve them in conversations, which also includes actually listening to what they are
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Permalink GalleryQsource Top 10 Provider Stories of 2015
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Qsource Top 10 Provider Stories of 2015
In case you missed these stories, here are the top 10 provider-focused stories shared on Qsource in 2015.
Top 10 Provider Stories
Pledge to Get Your Flu Vaccine
Important Update to Pneumococcal Vaccine Recommendations
Have You Been Notified About a PQRS Negative Payment Adjustment?
Five Changes to the Five-Star Nursing Home Rating System
Qsource Partners with Cherokee Health Systems
Top 5 Most Downloaded Tools for Nursing Homes in 2015
Nursing homes across the five Qsource states—Alabama, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi and Tennessee—are working diligently to improve resident care. Here are the top five nursing home quality improvement resources downloaded from Qsource in 2015
Change Package Strategy 5: Be a Continuous Learning Organization
A continuous learning organization
knows where it stands,
knows when and how to change,
uses data to drive performance and
views the organization as an interdependent system.
Advancing Excellence Offers Workshops to Disrupt Infections
Advancing Excellence is offering Disrupt Infections: Creating a Community of Prevention workshops to explore how creating unity in the care setting can help break the web of infection in simple, practical ways.
Coaches Keep TeamSTEPPS on Track
After a facility conducts TeamSTEPPS training, internal coaches become change agents to help promote and sustain the continuous work and model the new behaviors and change.
Managing Change Using TeamSTEPPS
Pursuit of the goal for the safest and highest quality healthcare requires optimization of a complex and integrated delivery system that includes people and processes.
TeamSTEPPS: Putting It All Together
The tools and strategies presented in The Long-Term Care Version of TeamSTEPPS correspond to individual teamwork skills
The Communications Lifeline in TeamSTEPPS
Communication is the lifeline of a well-functioning team. Communication strategies and tools improve effectiveness and promote the sharing of information.