Webinar: Welcome to the World of Dietary! LTC Refresher Course12/12/202410am2:30pm
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Session Title: Welcome to the World of Dietary! LTC Refresher Course
Presentation Date: December 12, 2024
Presented By:
- Janine Lehman, RN, RAC-CT, CLNC – Director of Legal Nurse Consulting, Proactive LTC Consulting
- Cara W. Clark, RD, LD, LNHA – CEO/Founder of CWC Consulting Services, LLC dba DigitalRD
Course Description:
Dietary department need a refresh? Sharpen your dietary knowledge and establish effective dietary department systems when you join Proactive for this virtual workshop. This 4-hour training will review team building, food service regulations, documentation requirements, IDT collaboration, preventing common deficiencies and much more! Co-presented by a dual Registered Dietitian and Nursing Home Administrator and a nurse/legal nurse consultant, your team will gain insights into the dietitian role, effective dietary systems and recommended QA oversight and management duties of the facility administrator! Don’t miss this unique opportunity to elevate the quality of your dietary department.
Learning Objectives
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- Understand the importance of staff development, training, and teamwork in the dietary department.
- Identify the regulatory requirements pertinent to the dietary manager role.
- Identify survey procedures surveyors will follow to assess compliance with dietary related requirements.
- Recognize areas of common deficiencies and how to avoid them.
- Discuss integration of systems between nursing and dietary departments.
- Describe best practices for implementing and/or improving assessment and documentation practices pertinent to systems related to nutrition and hydration.
- Understand the role of the dietary manager in collaborating with the IDT to manage systems related to nutrition and hydration and reducing weight loss in LTC facilities
Continuing Education Information:
Nurses: The Kansas Healthcare Association is approved as a provider of continuing nursing education by the Kansas State Board of Nursing. This offering is approved for 4.0 contact hour applicable for RN and LPN relicensure (KSBN LT0030-0338)
Administrators: This course is approved for 4.0 continuing education credit hours for Kansas licensed adult care home administrators by the Kansas Department Aging and Disability Services. KDADS Health Occupations Credentialing sponsorship number LTS-A0001.
Operators: This course offering is approved for 4.0 continuing education clock hour for the Kansas registered operators in the core area of Administration by the Kansas Department of Aging and Disability Services. KDADS Health Occupations Credentialing Approved Sponsorship number: LTS-A0001.
Social Workers: This course is approved for 4.0 hour of continuing education hours for Kansas licensed Social Workers by the Kansas Behavioral Sciences Regulatory Board. Approval number: 17-006.
Dietitians: This course is approved for up to 4.0 continuing education clock hours for Kansas Licensed Dietitians by the Kansas Department of Aging and Disability Services. KDADs Health Occupations Credentialing Approved Sponsorship Number: LTS-A0002.
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