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The Importance of Training for Safe and Effective Pain Management in Palliative Care
In palliative care, effective pain management is essential for enhancing residents' quality of life. To achieve this goal, it is critical to ensure that staff are equipped with the necessary training to manage residents' pain safely and effectively. Comprehensive training in pain assessment, non-pharmacological interventions, medication management, and the role of communication are all important because each is a key part of the plan of care when implementing pain management in palliative care.
Read ArticleImprove Communications with Long Term Care Training
Miscommunications happen every day. But in an assisted living community or nursing home, good communication takes on a life-or-death importance. The right kind of long term care training for caregiving staff can help improve communications and ultimately, reduce medical errors, enhance resident quality of life, and increase satisfaction for everyone.
Read ArticleAn Assisted Living Emergency Evacuation Plan for Crisis Management
A crisis requiring evacuation is every assisted living administrator’s nightmare. Life-threatening events like a fire or flooding are stressful enough without the complexities involved in evacuating medically-fragile seniors. Administrators must not only have a comprehensive assisted living emergency evacuation plan but must ensure that staff and residents are well prepared when a crisis occurs.
Read ArticleImprove Residents’ Safety and Reduce Liability with Assisted Living Medication Management Training
Each year, adverse drug events send approximately 450,000 seniors to the emergency room, more than twice the number of younger people, according to the CDC. With more than three-quarters of residents in assisted living facilities needing help taking prescribed medications, the risk of an adverse drug event is high. That’s why regular assisted living medication management training is critical for staff to help keep residents safe.
Read ArticleSenior Care Staff Training for Managing Challenging Behavior
Seniors with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias often exhibit challenging behaviors such as aggression, agitation, disinhibition, mood and sleep disturbances. Wandering and elopement are also concerns. Managing these behaviors can be difficult, especially in senior living and memory care communities. Senior care staff training can help improve the quality of care for residents with dementia, while reducing liability and increasing employee job satisfaction.
Read ArticleRisk Training for Assisted Living to Reduce Liability Claims
Assisted living facilities that care for aging, medically compromised adults are seeing liability claims are on the rise. According to a report by the insurance company CNA, the average assisted living liability claim cost was $267,174 in 2021, up from $152,348 in 2018. In 2023, commercial insurance broker Marsh predicts claim frequency, claim severity, and loss rates will continue to increase. That’s where risk training for assisted living facilities can help.
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