The aim is to better integrate palliative care into the nursing home to ensure residents receive timely goal concordant care and improve quality of life.
To improve the nursing training curriculum within 1 year by understanding the challenges and limitations in geriatric training delivery to the diverse trainee groups and to provide geriatric educators with practical guidance with proposed strategies...
Our purpose was to increase rates of advance care planning (ACP) document retrieval and upload to the electronic medical records (EMR) for patients residing in a community nursing home over an 18-month period. We aimed for >85% compliance to have...
Long-term care (LTC) has experienced pandemic-induced staffing shortages, requiring skilled preceptors to nurture competent direct-care staff. Implementing a structure change, a Preceptor Training Program (PTP), establishes an organized framework...
The purpose of this project was to reduce falls and fall-related injuries at a long-term care facility by fostering a safe environment. This project evaluated the feasibility and impact of staff education and hourly purposeful rounding on fall rates...
We initiated a program to decrease the usage of benzodiazepines (BDs) among older adults (OAs) in long-term care facilities (LTCs) by identifying and immediately discontinuing initial BD prescriptions. BD use is linked to adverse outcomes, including...
From July 2022 through January 2023, we will create sustainable strategies to enhance communication and interaction in the Community Living Center. This will be accomplished by education in STAR-VA, employment of de-escalation techniques, and...
Determine effectiveness of palliative initiative in our memory care unit (MCU) in preventing end-of-life (EOL) hospital transfers via a quality review study of all MCU deaths in the past 33 months to see if our transfer rate in last 30 days of life...
