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Nursing Care Plan Conference

The entire nursing care plan team, members from the Nursing, Social Services, Activities, Dietary, and Restorative departments participate in writing nursing care plans for residents.

The MDS Coordinator writes the nursing care plans, leads the nursing care plan meeting, and oversees participation from the other long term care facility departments: Social Services – Behavior, Mood, and Cognitive care plans; Dietary – Nutrition, Dehydration, and Tube Feeding care plans; Activities – Activity care plan; Restorative Nursing – care plans on any Restorative Nursing programs such as Ambulation, Range of Motion, and training in improving ADLs.

A productive nursing care plan meeting has input from each department and team discussion of the resident’s needs. Issues related to Late-loss ADLs, Falls, Restraints, Skin breakdown, Psychotropic medications, and Weight loss are discussed, and effective interventions are implemented and documented.

Lower Staffing and Poorer Care at For-Profit Long Term Care Facilities

Posted by LTCS on January 26, 2012

Nursing hours from 2003 to 2008 were thirty percent lower at facilities in the top largest for-profit chains than in other facilities, a study by the University of California discovered, well below the minimum staffing recommendations.

Since low nurse staffing levels are considered to be the best predictor of poor quality care, it is not surprising that the facilities had 41 percent more serious deficiencies than the best facilities.

UCSF cited the top ten chains as: HCR Manor Care, Golden Living, Life Care Centers of America, Kindred Healthcare, Genesis HealthCare Corporation, Sun Health Care Group, Inc., SavaSeniorCare LLC, Extendicare Health Services, Inc., National Health Care Corporation, and Skilled HealthCare, LLC.

University of California Report

Find out more about RN and nursing home staffing in the book Director of Nursing Book .