The new psychosocial guidance is here—and every aspect of nursing home care is affected.
The psychosocial outcome severity guide affects every aspect of the long-term care survey process, and a failure to understand the guidance can cause deficiencies, increase their severity, and pose a serious threat to your facility’s reputation.
Written by industry expert, Molly C. Morand, RN, BSN, BC, Complying with CMS' Psychosocial Guidance will help administrators, social service managers and directors of nursing make sense of the all-encompassing new psychosocial guidance.
Packed with relevant, time-saving forms and checklists, this book and CD-ROM will help you avoid deficiencies by meeting surveyor expectations and implementing a culture change in your facility in reaction to the new guidelines—all while using the MDS to monitor successful compliance.
You’ll benefit from
- Clarification of the new guidance, including surveyor expectations, that will ensure understanding and survey readiness
- Easy-to-implement ideas for culture change and staff education, to help staff understand how this guidance affects everyone in the nursing home.
- Documentation tips, examples, and real-world examples that you can draw from to ease the confusion of complying with the guidelines
- a CD-ROM containing easy-to-print tools and forms that are easy to modify to the needs of your facility
Achieve culture change without a huge financial investment
Skilled nursing facilities must now show surveyors not only that they're providing adequate resident care, but that their residents experience meaningful, satisfying lives. This could mean a big change in the way staff view their roles and carry out duties.
Complying with CMS' Psychosocial Guidance will help ease this culture change by providing easy-to-implement ideas for staff education. Best of all, the tools, forms, and care plans you need to train staff on the new guidelines are included on the bonus CD-ROM at no additional cost, menaing you can ensure this vital change in care occurs without spending a lot of money!
About the author
Molly C. Morand, BSN, RN, BC, is president of the Morand Group, LLC. Certified in gerotological nursing and a former CMS state surveyor, Ms. Morand has experience in all areas of healthcare. Currently, Morand provides consultation to long-term care facilities, assisted-living centers, adult day care centers, hospitals, provider organizations, quality improvement organizations (QIO’s), consumer organizations, and suppliers throughout the United States on regulatory, compliance, and quality of life issues. Morand has assisted many facilities with developing policies and procedures as well as implementing and improving care practices that have resulted in improved outcomes.
Achieve positive survey outcomes while ensuring all residents receive mindful care by Complying with CMS’ Psychosocial Guidance.
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