DON and Nurse Leaders Bootcamp – April 2024

Program Description

This comprehensive training program will provide nurses with the knowledge, skills, and confidence needed to excel in leadership roles within long-term care settings, ultimately contributing to regulatory compliance and more importantly the overall improvement of resident care.

Location

Iowa Health Care Association
1775 90th Street
West Des Moines, IA

Schedule

April 10, 2024

8:30 am          Registration/Check-In
9:00 am          Balancing the Changes and Challenges Affecting LTC Clinical Leaders
10:30 am        Break
10:45 am        Creative and Meaningful Education: Building Nurse Competencies
11:45 am         Lunch (provided)
12:15 pm         Key Strategies in Developing Policies and Procedures
1:45 pm          Break
2:00 pm         Transitions of Care: Strategies for Successful Outcomes
3:30 pm         Networking Time
4:00 pm         Adjourn

April 11, 2024

 8:30 am         Quality Improvement in LTC (QAPI, Five Star, QM’s)
10:00 am        Break
10:15 am         Mitigating Risks & Incident Reporting
11:45 am         Lunch (provided)
12:15 pm         Best Practices for Survey Preparedness
3:00 pm         Adjourn

Topic Descriptions

Balancing the Changes and Challenges Affecting LTC Clinical Leaders 
Instructor: Louann Lawson
2023 will be remembered by the monumental regulatory changes directly affecting the long-term care organizations. Transformational changes include: the end of the public health emergency, the implementation of an updated resident assessment instrument focusing on social determinants of health (SDOH), enhancement of the Five Star Quality Reporting Program, and new measures added to both the quality reporting program and value-based purchasing. This session will provide practical solutions to the changes and challenges affecting nursing leaders.

Creative and Meaningful Education: Building Nurse Competencies
Instructor: Louann Lawson
Education can be fun and rewarding for the adult learner when it is organized, meaningful, and presented in a way that sticks! Adult learners need to hear it, see it, and do it.  This session will provide workable strategies for creating a simple but meaningful education session for staff members working in post-acute care.

Key Strategies in Developing Policies and Procedures
Instructor: Louann Lawson
This information packed session will walk participants through key aspects of the research, development and follow-up involved in the development of policies and procedures. This fast-paced program will review template examples, strategies for identifying essential inclusions in your process (i.e., regulatory compliance, standards of practice etc.) and a process for review and revisions.

Transitions of Care: Strategies for Successful Outcomes
Instructor: Louann Lawson
Creating a person-centered care plan is the first step in a seamless transfer or discharge from skilled nursing to different levels of care. This session will provide a review of three key strategies for methods of discharge planning to improve outcomes and decrease the chance of readmission to the hospital.

Quality Improvement in LTC (QAPI, Five Star, QM’s)
Instructor: Gina Anderson
Successful long-term care nurses will need a good understanding of public data that is released on your facility, how that will impact your operations and how to use that data in your quality assurance performance improvement (QAPI) programs. In this session you will learn more about what your data reveals about your organization and “the how” for your quality improvement efforts.

Mitigating Risks & Incident Reporting
Instructor: Ken Watkins
Given the heightened scrutiny of today’s LTC profession by regulators and litigators, nurses must be experts at managing risk within their operations.  This session will include practical strategies for identifying your areas of potential risk and provide solutions for implementing systems to help avoid regulatory citations and sanctions as well as civil claims.

Best Practices for Survey Preparedness
Instructors: Brenda Irlbeck and Lisa Roederer
This session will provide a first-hand account of Iowa’s nursing facility survey process. The session will cover best practices for nurses to implement pro-active strategies to meet and exceed state and federal standards to assure meeting of ongoing compliance standards and high standards of care.

Continuing Education Credit

This program is approved for 10.5 contact hours for:

• Nurses (IBON provider #166)

Registration Fees

Members:   $275 per person
IHCQP Members:   $250 per person
Non-Members:    $550 per person

Speaker Bios

Gina Anderson, RN, BSN is a Senior Quality Improvement Facilitator at Telligen. Gina has worked in nursing homes in a variety of roles for over 23 years with roles as Director of Nursing , MDS Coordinator, and as a Nurse Consultant. In her current role, Gina supports nursing homes across Iowa with quality improvement technical assistance, clinical and quality improvement education and healthcare resources.

Brenda Irlbeck is the Vice President, Quality & Clinical Services for the Iowa Health Care Association, the Iowa Center for Assisted Living, and the Iowa Center for Home Care.   Brenda works closely with the IHCA and ICAL Quality Improvement Committees and the IHCA Medicare Committee.  She is knowledgeable regarding issues related to quality improvement, regulatory compliance, and clinical practice in post-acute care settings.  Brenda is a registered nurse, certified assisted living manager, and a former director of nursing.

Louann Lawson, BA, BN, RAC-CT, CMT has nearly 40 years of long term and acute care experience, Louann has been an active member in the health continuum.   As a registered nurse, Louann has held multiple clinical and leadership positions that provide her with extensive experience to support and to grow clinical teams.  As a Pathway Health consultant, Louann is an educator who has successfully trained hundreds of professionals regarding MDS/Medicare/Medicaid processes, clinical quality initiatives, and reimbursement protocols.

Lisa Roederer RN, RAC-CT, QCP, ICP is a Nurse consultant and owner of Virtuous LTC Consulting Services.  Lisa has 36 years of Acute Care and Long-Term Care experience. She has worked as a C.NA, Restorative Aide, LPN, RN, MDS Nurse, DON and has worked the past 13 years as a Corporate Nurse and as an independent Nurse Consultant.  Lisa has extensive knowledge in a variety of areas, such as, Quality Assurance/QAPI, MDS 3.0, Clinical Quality Care processes, Infection Control and Survey Preparedness.

Ken Watkins is a lawyer and owner of the Ken Watkins Law Firm, located in Des Moines, IA.  His practice includes representation of health care providers in regulatory matters, responding to government investigations and malpractice litigation.  Ken received his B.A. degree from Knox College and his J.D. degree from Drake University Law School, where he served on the Drake Law Review.

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