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Empowering Your Staff Towards Resident Centered Care
July 8, 2008 | Lourdes Noreen McKeen Residence, West Palm Beach, FL
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Seminar Agenda
8:15 AM Registration
8:45 AM Welcome / Prayer
9:00 AM - 9:45 AM
Designing Dementia Specific Programs
Sr. M. Peter Lillian Di Maria, O.Carm., BA, LNHA
Resident Centered care begins with understanding that each person is a unique individual with unique needs. Programs that meet the needs of all Residents, especially those with dementia, are best achieved through appropriate assessments and understanding. The presenter will discuss proper assessment procedures, innovative education techniques, and program development. An introduction into Engineered Music as innovative implementation tool will be discussed.
9:45 AM - 10:30 AM
Dementia Simulation a Powerful Training Tool?
Sr. M. Peter Lillian Di Maria, O.Carm., BA, LNHA; & Alfred W. Norwood, MBA
Starting and maintaining Resident Centered care requires caregivers to emphasize with what all their residents are going through, especially those with dementia. Participants are introduced to the technique called Dementia Simulation. This training helps caregivers understand emotionally the many constraints and limitations dementia places on people suffering from dementia.
10:45 AM - 12:15 PM
Dementia Basics: Aging & the Slippery Slope
Alfred W. Norwood, MBA
Building on the experience of dementia simulation, a basic understanding of brain function is critical in dealing with the challenges to providing excellent dementia care. Mr. Norwood's discusses the new approach to understanding dementia, which is based in neurology and is a direct result of the latest developments in neural imaging.
1:00 PM - 3:15 PM Includes 15 min break
Enhancing Team Performance
Regine Lambrech, PhD,
Sr. M. Peter Lillian Di Maria, O.Carm., BA, LNHA
Alfred W. Norwood, MBA
The approaches described in the morning are only as successful as the team who is to implement them. Dr. Lambrech will present a very logical approach to the team process from communication techniques to evaluating the effectiveness of the team and putting a strong team together. An interactive session will take place that incorporates the team techniques in regards to providing positive solutions to challenging behaviors that residents with dementia may portray.
Credit Information
Dietitians:
This seminar has been approved by the Commission on Dietetic Registration for the maximum allowable hours of 5 CPE hours.
Nursing Home Administrators:
“The Avila Institute of Gerontology, Inc, is a Certified Sponsor of professional continuing education with the National Association of Boards of Examiners of Long Term Care Administrators (NAB) and certifies that this program meets NAB/NCERS guideline and is approved for 5 continuing education clock hours. State licensure boards, however, have final authority on the acceptance of individual courses.”
Approval Number: 2632008-26409-5
Social Workers:
This program has been approved for 5 Continuing Education hours for relicensure, in accordance with 258 CMR. Collaborative of NASW and the Boston College and Simmons College Schools of Social Work Authorization Number D 39467. PA Board approval number SWCE091131.
Therapeutic Recreation:
“Empowering Your Staff Towards Resident Centered Care”, has been approved to provide up to .5 continuing education units (CEUs) for the entire workshop through the American Therapeutic Recreation Association (ATRA).”
Nurses:
This continuing nursing education activity has been approved by the New York State Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses’ Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation. It has been assigned approval code 7A4KMP-08. It has been approved for 5.0 contact hours.
Catholic Chaplains:
The National Association of Catholic Chaplains has approved this program for 5 Continuing Education Hours per seminar.
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