Description

Accurate and thorough nursing documentation is critical in nursing homes, ensuring high-quality resident care, legal protection, regulatory compliance, and effective communication among healthcare providers. This on-line seminar explores the best practices for nursing documentation, highlighting key principles such as clarity, completeness, timeliness, and adherence to regulatory standards. Attendees will learn strategies to improve documentation efficiency while maintaining compliance with healthcare policies, reducing errors, and enhancing resident outcomes. The session will also cover common challenges in nursing documentation and practical solutions to ensure records accurately reflect the care provided.

Whether you're an experienced nurse or new to long-term care, this presentation will equip participants with essential skills to refine documentation practices and enhance resident care in nursing homes.

Objectives:

• Participants will understand the importance of documentation by recognizing how accurate nursing documentation impacts resident care, legal protection, and interdisciplinary communication.
• Participants will understand how to implement key principles such as clarity, completeness, timeliness, and adherence to regulatory standards in daily documentation by applying best practice.
• Participants will develop strategies to improve documentation workflow without compromising accuracy or resident safety.
• Participants will understand how to identify and follow federal, state, and facility-specific regulations governing nursing documentation in nursing homes.
• Participants will learn common documentation pitfalls and how to avoid them to minimize miscommunication and enhance care quality.
• Participants will utilize effective documentation techniques that support collaboration among healthcare teams and provide continuity of care.

Speaker:  Linda Farrar, RN, LNHA, Oklahoma Clinical Coordinator