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CE Home > Gerontologic Nursing > Nursing Home Inspections

Nursing Home Inspections    
It's About the Residents
by Dorothy Kirk Bertsch, RN, BSN
CE302-60 l 1.00 hr

Nursing Home Inspections - CE302-60  


        Price  ( $ 10.00 )
Objectives:

The goal of this program is to assist nurses in educating elderly patients and their families about the inspection process and how it helps to ensure residents’ rights, quality of life, and quality of care in long-term care facilities. After you study this information, you will be able to —

  • Explain how residents are preselected for observation of special care needs.
  • Identify how surveyors use resident, family, and staff interviews to determine resident satisfaction, quality of life, and quality of care.
  • Describe surveyors’ on-site methods of assessing regulatory deficiencies.

This course will be updated or discontinued on or before 10/28/2011



 
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Gannett Education, formerly known as Nursing Spectrum Division of Continuing Education, is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.

Accredited status does not imply endorsement by the provider or ANCC of any commercial products displayed in conjunction with this activity. Unless stated above, the planners and authors of this course have declared no real or perceived conflicts of interest that relate to this educational activity.