Webinar: Nursing Documentation Practice Expectations8/27/20252pm3:30pm
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Session Title: Nursing Documentation Practice Expectations
Presentation Date: August 27, 2025
Target Audience:
All Adult Care Home/LTC Nurses
Presented By:
- Linda Farrar, RN, LNHA
Course Description:
This 90 minute webinar is facilitated by Linda Farrar, RN, LNHA
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 presentation 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.
Learning Objectives
By the end of this webinar, participants will be able to:
- 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.
CE’s are available for those that listen to the sessions LIVE.
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 2.0 contact hour applicable for RN and LPN relicensure (KSBN LT0030-0338)
Administrators: This course offering is approved for 2.0 continuing education clock hour for each webinar for the Kansas licensed adult care home administrators by the Kansas Department of Aging and Disability Services. KDADS Health Occupations Credentialing Approved Sponsorship number: LTS-A0001.
Operators: This course offering is approved for 2.0 continuing education clock hours for Kansas registered operators in the core area of Resident Care 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 2.0 hour of continuing education hour for each webinar for Kansas licensed Social Workers by the Kansas Behavioral Sciences Regulatory Board. Approval number: 17-006.
Dietitians: This course is approved for up to 2.0 continuing education clock hour for each webinar for Kansas Licensed Dietitians by the Kansas Department of Aging and Disability Services. KDADs Health Occupations Credentialing Approved Sponsorship Number: LTS-A0002.
CE’s will be provided to those that complete a registration and the follow up attendance verification form. Webinar log in information and dial in information will be provided prior to the webinar.