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.
