Looking for A Fun and Visual Way to Teach Culture Change Concepts to your Team Members?

"Let's Talk about Culture Change" Poster Series

How are you Communicating Culture Change concepts to your team members, residents and families? Strategic placement of these colorful and easy-to-read 11"x17" posters can help you spread the word and inspire involvement from the entire community along your Culture Change journey.

The series of 12 posters covers key concepts of Culture Change. They include:

How Does Culture Change Improve the Lives of Residents? What Does Culture Change Look Like? What Does Culture Change Feel Like? The Language of Culture Change What Is Enhanced Dining? Apply Culture Change to your Bathing Approaches

What Is Community Life? Bring Animals into the Nursing Home on a Regular Basis What Are Neighborhoods and Neighborhood Teams? Nursing Stations and Culture Change Value-Based Care Planning Holistic Approaches to Caregiving

Suite of Twelve 11"x17" Glossy Posters [Item: CCPOS] $49.95

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Institute Team to Present Three Sessions at American Society on Aging Conference in March

Sessions will Explore Psychosocial Guidelines for Community Life, Leadership for Direct Care Workers and Practical Nursing Education within a Culture Change Context

WASHINGTON, DC — The Institute for Caregiver Education team is pleased to announce that three of the organization’s submissions for the ASA/NCOA Annual Conference were accepted and will be presented in March. The American Society on Aging (ASA) and the National Council on Aging (NCOA) collaborate to host one of the largest annual conferences for aging, eldercare and education professionals in the country. This year’s conference will be held in Washington, DC on March 26-30 at the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel and the Omni Shoreham Hotel. More than 3,500 aging professionals are expected to attend.

Institute for Caregiver Education Senior Consultant and Director of Development Jim Kinsey, AAS will be presenting “Enhancing Lives and Enhancing Compliance: Culture Change and the Psychosocial Guidelines.” This session was created by Mr. Kinsey as a response to the new guidelines from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services that focus on Activities programming regulation. One of the Institute’s recent focuses has been transforming Activities programming to a “Community Life” model, which embraces Culture Change and expands activities from the responsibility of one staff member to the entire team. In this 90-minute session, attendees will explore how Community Life programs can enhance compliance with regulation and further avoid deficiencies with the new psychosocial guidelines.

Senior Consultant and Director of Development Teresa McCann will present “Organizational and Leadership Development.” In this session participants will explore how to expand the role of the direct care worker into a role of leadership and mentoring. Participants will also explore how to develop interdisciplinary teams, create team standards that build a foundation of success, and the policies and procedures needed to support an expanded role into a Quality of Life Leader.

Associate Consultant and Educator Myrna Eshleman, RN, MScN, will be presenting “Education for Developing Practical Nurses for Long-Term Care.” This session will explore how to integrate geriatric-focused, relationship-based care into a curriculum of practical nursing. Participants will identify and discuss the professional crisis that this curriculum seeks to respond to as well as examples of lesson plans, outcome measures, and implementation guidelines. In addition, Ms. Eshleman will identify how to integrate gerontology, psychosocial elder needs and issues of aging into a practical nursing curriculum.

For more information about the joint ASA/CCOA Conference, please visit www.asaging.org.

The Institute for Caregiver Education is a nationally-recognized leader in Culture Change education. For more than 15 years the organization has provided quality caregiver education to nursing homes from California to Maine. Over the last seven years the IfCE team has educated hundreds of long-term care professionals on a myriad of Culture Change topics at such national conferences as ASA, NADONA, AAHSA, AHCA, ACHCA, The Pioneer Network, the VA Summit and numerous state associations. The Institute for Caregiver Education is currently a leading Culture Change educator for a number of state QIO organizations as they work with the 8th Scope of Work and CMS.

Institute Announces Release of Momentum

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
February 15, 2008

Quarterly Newsletter Designed for Nursing Home Employees Focuses on Person-Centered Care Practices

Chambersburg, PA — As part of the Institute for Caregiver Education’s ongoing effort to offer Person-Centered Care resources to eldercare professionals and caregivers, the organization has announced the release of a quarterly newsletter titled Momentum. The four-page newsletter is written specifically for caregivers on the frontlines of nursing home care, and includes motivating “Tales of Transformation” from homes that are engaged in Person-Centered Care approaches.

“We know that one of the most difficult aspects of the person-centered care journey is ensuring constant and consistent communication with your team about the initiatives and concepts associated with change,” says Jim Kinsey, Senior Consultant and Director of Development for the Institute. “For change to truly ‘take root’ we must do all that we can to communicate clearly with our team members about the ‘why’ and the ‘how’ behind what we are trying to implement. Momentum was created to specifically provide that communication.”

Momentum is written in a style that easily accessible to team members at all levels of their careers. The topics that the newsletter covers are in line with the concepts that homes are introducing to their teams as they move forward on the person-centered care journey.

Each issue features a column called “Implementing the Vision” which gives real world advice on how to create and sustain initiatives. Also included is a regular column called “The Tool Box” which offers caregivers quick Culture Change tips that they can put into practice immediately. At the close of each issue is a self-test, designed to offer 15 minutes of in-service credit to team members. Learn more>>

Momentum Volume I is nearly complete with three issues available to purchase. Issue 4 is in pre-production and will be available in April. The newsletter is available for purchase for $24.95 per pack of 50 copies.

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The Institute for Caregiver Education is a nationally-recognized leader in Culture Change education. For more than 15 years the organization has provided quality caregiver education to nursing homes from California to Maine. Over the last seven years the IfCE team has educated hundreds of long-term care professionals on a myriad of Culture Change topics at such national conferences as ASA, NADONA, AAHSA, AHCA, ACHCA, The Pioneer Network, the VA Summit and numerous state associations. The Institute for Caregiver Education is currently a leading Culture Change educator for a number of state QIO organizations as they work with the 8th Scope of Work and CMS.