Medication Policies and Procedures: Administration, Errors, Storage, Anxiolytics, Adverse Consequences, Antipsychotics, Pharmacy, Pharmacy Consultant, Narcotics, Self-administration

Needles and Sharps

Nursing Documentation

Oxygen

Pain Care

Pneumonia Vaccine Policy and Procedure

Pressure Ulcers

Range of Motion

Restraint Policies: Program, Consent, Criteria, Definitions, Monitoring

Skin Assessment

Smoking Policy

Standard Precautions

Suctioning Procedure

Toileting Programs

Tracheostomy Care

Transfers and Lifts

Tuberculosis Testing

Urinary Catheters: Care, Insertion, Monitoring, Documentation

Violence

Weight Loss

The facility’s Nursing policy for long term care manual outlines administrative nursing policies and standards of care for basic nursing care procedures and clinical practices.

The Director of Nursing should review and update each nursing policy in the nursing policy for long term care book at least annually to ensure it is comprehensive and accurate. Updates to each nursing policy for loong term care should also be made when applicable due to changes in regulations or nursing standards of practice. Other appropriate additions to the manual would be manufacturer guidelines and instructions for new equipment and devices. Some facilities have a policy and procedure committee that meets several times per year to review and consider changes to the manual.

The form at the top of each nursing policy for long term care has spaces for the date the policy and procedure was approved by the Director of Nursing and the date of any addendums or changes.

The master copy of each nursing policy for long term care should be kept in the office of the Director of Nursing, and copies can be placed at each nurses’ station so when policy or procedure is in doubt, staff members can refer to the manual for clarity.

Some facilities include with the policy and procedure manual master copies of forms, and this can help to ensure uniform documentation throughout the facility.

Each nursing policy for long term care may also be used as teaching tools in an inservice or employee counseling session.

Nursing policies and procedures have been updated to ensure compliance with the change to MDS 3.0 and with all of the federal regulations and guidelines updated during the past year.

Each nursing policy for long term care in the book is also included on the CD which is located in the back of the manual, so they may be easily edited on a word processor for desired updates and changes.

View and Print Nursing Policy for Long Term Care sample forms

Introduction Feeding Tube Policy and Procedure Medication Errors Policy and Procedure Forms for Long Term Care

Forms for Long Term Care

127 Forms in the book and on CD: Skilled Charting Guidelines, Simplified CAA Modules, Assessments, Audits, Monitoring and Flow Sheets, and more

Fax or Mail Order Form

Articles for Director of Nursing Resources

Nursing Policy for Long Term Care

Medications, Falls, Restraints, Pressure Ulcers, and PainCare

67 Nursing Policies and Procedures in the book and on the CD:

Introduction
Feeding Tube Policy and Procedure
Medication Errors Policy and Procedure
Forms for Long Term Care