QM/QI Success Strategies
Ensure Appropriate Monitoring and Survey Preparedness During the Blackout
Product Description:
AUDIO CONFERENCE ON CD OR ON-DEMAND
Sponsored by: QIS Mock Survey Guide
Presented on Thursday, May 19, 2011
Don't be left in the dark during the QM/QI blackout.
The blackout period for quality measure and quality indicator (QM/QI) reporting presents an opportunity for your facility to address any holes in its quality tracking processes, and emerge with a more efficient, deficiency-proof system that will hold up under survey. Join HCPro for this program where experts Bonnie G. Foster, RN, BSN, MEd, and Frosini Rubertino, RN, CRNAC, C-NE, CDONA/LTC, will help you develop process indicators to improve quality management. You will discover how a risk management approach to quality tracking can aid your entire interdisciplinary team, as well as better prepare your facility for either a traditional or quality indicator survey (QIS).
By attending this program, you will:
- Avoid common survey deficiencies in areas such as falls and pain management
- Maintain compliance through continued QM/QI tracking during the blackout period
- Ensure clinical operations do not suffer during the blackout period
- Develop process indicators to manage quality
- Prepare for a traditional survey or a QIS by bulletproofing your current processes
Learning Objectives
- Define the QM/QI process
- Successfully track your QM/QIs during the blackout period
- Identify key issues such as pain management and relevant F-tags
- Develop at least one process indicator for your facility to manage quality
- Implement an interdisciplinary approach to deal with the blackout period and avoid common problems
Agenda
- QM/QIs: Where are we now?
- Introduction to the new QMs
- QM/QI blackout period
- How to ensure quality during a blackout
- QM/QI tracking
- Benefits of a blackout
- Key issues
- Pain
- Falls
- Pressure ulcers
- How to use the guidance
- Using the survey manual
- How to develop a process indicator
- Live Question and Answer session
MEET THE SPEAKERS
Bonnie G. Foster, RN, BSN, MEd, is an independent long-term care consultant who has worked in geriatric care for 40 years. Her wide-ranging background as a CNA, charge nurse, staff development coordinator, director of nursing, and state surveyor for federal certification sets the foundation for her expertise as a skilled trainer in long-term care.
Frosini Rubertino, RN, CRNAC, C-NE, CDONA/LTC, is a registered nurse with more than 30 years of experience in the healthcare industry. She is currently a clinical services consultant for an Arkansas-based clinical consultant group. As an HCPro faculty member, she brings her experience in risk management, quality assurance, Medicare and regulatory compliance, clinical systems, and education into the classroom.
BONUS MATERIALS INCLUDED IN YOUR MATERIAL PACKET
In addition to the expertise and information presented during this audio conference, you'll also receive these helpful “take-aways” provided within your materials pack:
- Process indicator examples for pain and falls
- Don’t be left in the dark during the QM/QI blackout article from May 2010 PPS Alert for Long-Term Care
- Listing of National Quality Forum-endorsed quality measures
- List of the MDS 3.0 used in the QIS Quality of Care and Quality of Life Thresholds
- CMS traditional vs. QIS survey comparison chart
WHO SHOULD LISTEN?
MDS coordinators, quality improvement specialists, nurses, charge nurses, administrators, directors of nursing, assistant directors of nursing, interdisciplinary team members, physicians, medical directors.
AUDIO ON-DEMAND
Purchase a CD or an audio on-demand of the audio conference and listen when you can. It's also a perfect training tool for new staff or as a refresher for veteran staff.
Product Types : Departments :
