Past Virtual Trainings.

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QPR training offers strategies to support your work in providing suicide prevention and mental wellness to your residents. This 1.5-hour evidence-based instructor-led training is held virtually and will provide a comprehensive review of a three-step approach anyone can learn to help save a life from suicide. This session will provide a one-year certification to attendees.

Key components covered in the training:

1. How to Question, Persuade and Refer someone who may be suicidal
2. How to get help for yourself or learn more about preventing suicide
3. The common causes of suicidal behavior
4. The warning signs of suicide
5. How to get help for someone in crisis

Registration is limited.

Speaker: Holly Pounders – https://www.linkedin.com/in/holly-pounders-73632044/

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Utilize the Columbia protocol also known as the Columbia-Suicide Severity Rating Scale (C-SSRS) to learn how to utilize the six simple questions to identify whether a resident is at risk for suicide. The responses will help assess the severity and immediacy of that risk and determine the level of support needed.

Participants will learn to ask:

• Whether a resident has thoughts about suicide (ideation)
• What actions a resident have taken to prepare for suicide
• Whether a resident attempted suicide or began a suicide attempt that was either interrupted by another person or stopped of their own volition.

Speaker: Adam Lesser, LCSW

Connect with him on LinkedIn – Adam Lesser

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While psychotropic medications can be valuable for mental wellness, there are many effective nonpharmacological interventions available. This presentation will introduce various non-drug approaches for residents in nursing facilities. Attendees will learn about a comprehensive bio-psycho-social-spiritual approach to mental health, illustrated with real-life case examples. The session will also cover the development of person-centered strategies to address mental illness, aiming to improve symptoms and reduce the need for PRN (as-needed) medication requests or emergency hospitalizations.

Learning Objectives:

1. Understand and apply person-centered care principles in geriatric populations.
2. Recognize the presence and impact of mental illness on nursing facility residents.
3. Develop and implement a comprehensive approach to mental illness using nonpharmacological interventions.

Speaker: Dr. Anthony Nedelman

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This training will focus on the recent updates from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) guidance to surveyors concerning informed consent and the management of psychotropic medications in nursing facilities. Participants will develop a deeper understanding of how to apply principles of medication stewardship in managing psychotropic medications, as well as how to implement a team approach to enhance the quality of care.

Learning Objectives:

1. Understand the latest CMS guidelines regarding the use of psychotropic medications and the significance of informed consent to ensure compliance and quality of care.
2. Establish and apply protocols for the gradual reduction of psychotropic medications when appropriate, ensuring personalized assessment and ongoing evaluation of the residents’ needs.
3. Promote teamwork among physicians, pharmacists, nurses, and other healthcare providers to enhance medication management practices and ensure comprehensive care for residents receiving psychotropic medications.

Speaker:

1. Jennifer Massey, PharmD – connect on LinkedIn
2. Jacob “Jay” Berelowitz, LNHA, LMSW, CPHQ, CCM – Program Director; connect on LinkedIn
3. Jennifer Goodpaster, BS, RN, RAC-CT, DNS-CT, QCP, CPHQ – Program Manager; connect on LinkedIn

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In this 45-minute training, nursing facility staff will explore the principles of trauma-informed care and learn techniques for creating a safe environment where both residents and staff can thrive.

Learning Objectives:

1. Define trauma and trauma-informed care
2. What happens to the traumatized body and why trauma behavior is misunderstood
3. The basic concepts of trauma informed care

Speaker: Dr. LaVerne H. Collins, LPC, LCMHC, NCC

Connect with the presenter on LinkedIn – Dr. LaVerne H. Collins

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This training will outline factors that contribute to escalating behaviors and strategies to safely defuse situations. In addition, we will discuss how staff’s behaviors and communication style can affect desired outcomes.

Learning Objectives:

1. Identify what contributes to escalating behaviors and how appropriate staff responses can positively impact outcomes.
2. Recognize how communication skills are important for building rapport with residents in crisis.
3. Learn strategies and techniques to help manage crisis situations.

Speaker: Barbara Bull, RN, BSN – bbull@jaghealthcare.com

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This session will provide an introduction to addiction, its effects on brain functioning, and how it fits into the chronic disease model. We will review DSM-5-TR criteria and the placement dimensions from ASAM (American Society of Addiction Medicine) to support care planning.

Learning Objectives:

1. Attendees will gain an understanding of how addiction impacts the brain; consequences of addiction and behaviors residents dealing with addiction might exhibit.
2. Attendees will gain an understanding of DSM-5-TR criteria for addiction to support treatment referrals.
3. Attendees will gain an understanding of basic addiction screening tools.

Speaker: Dr. Malcolm Horn, LCSW, MAC, SAP

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This half-hour training will introduce staff to a basic understanding of bipolar disorder, its onset, symptoms, and treatments. Participants will leave with an understanding of this mood disorder and able to identify its symptoms and approaches to help residents experiencing challenges from bipolar disorder.

Learning Objectives:

1. Participants will gain an understanding of bipolar disorder.
2. Participants will be able to recognize and understand signs and symptoms of mania and depression.
3. Participants will learn appropriate responses of engagement with residents.

Speaker: Bryan G. Stephens, MA, MBA, CPCS, LPC

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1. Describe person-centered care as it relates to nursing facilities and staff practice.
2. Identify how stigma and bias induces assumptions that impact rapport building and interactions.
3. Identify the benefits of an “individualized” approach to resident engagement.
4. Learn how person-centered care as a collaborative strategy can help residential nursing home staff and residents achieve care plan goals.

Speaker:

Diana Padilla, MCPC, CARC, CASAC-TASAP

Connect with the presenter on LinkedIn – Diana Padilla