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ACCME credits will be offered.

This 2-part training series is designed to provide information, strategies, and engagement tools that can be used to create calm for the distressed resident, while ensuring the delivery of effective care. Participants will improve their self-awareness regarding their own reactions to distress, in addition to discussing risk, safety factors and concrete tools for creating calm.

Learning Objectives:
1. Develop greater empathy and understanding related to distress.
2. Gain insight into personal reactions to distressed residents.
3. Review tools for responding to distress that will improve staff and resident engagement. 4.Identify risk and safety boundaries.

Speaker: Mathew R Roosa, LCSW-R

ACCME credits will be offered.

Substance use disorders and mental illness overlap at the rate of 50-70%. Compared to individuals with a single diagnosis, those with co-occurring disorders experience more instances of hospitalizations, suicide attempts, actual suicides and relapse. Topics covered in this presentation include the definition of a co-occurring disorder; how substance use disorders and mental illness interact; person-centered recovery; integrated co-occurring disorders treatment; stage-based interventions; and how to support residents with co-occurring disorders.

Learning Objectives:
1. Define co-occurring disorders.
2. Articulate seven (7) ways substance use disorders and mental illness interact with each other for residents with co-occurring disorders.
3. Explain the differences between three (3) types of co-occurring disorders treatment.
4. Be able to provide services and make referrals based upon a resident’s level of readiness to change
5. Provide support for residents with co-occurring disorders.

Speaker: Mark Sanders, LCSW, CADC

ACCME credits will be offered.

This half-hour training is a basic introduction to understanding bipolar disorder, its onset, symptoms and treatments. Participants will also learn approaches to support residents experiencing symptoms of bipolar disorder.

Learning Objectives:

1. Gain an understanding of bipolar disorder
2. Recognize and understand signs and symptoms of mania and depression
3. Learn appropriate responses of engagement with residents

Speaker: Bryan G. Stephens, LPC Founder and CEO of TalkForward

This training will provide an overview of opioid use disorders (OUD) in nursing facilities, offer valuable insights, explore medication options, and equip nursing facility staff with an understanding of how to manage this complex issue among residents with a diagnosis of OUD.

Learning Objectives

1. Learn the epidemiology of OUD and why there is an increase of resident admissions with this disorder.
2. Learn how to assess for opioid cravings/withdrawal and how this differs from a pain assessment.
3. Identify medical complications for OUD and conditions most likely seen in post-acute and long-term care settings.
4. Identify concepts in treatment for OUD:

• • Medications: buprenorphine, methadone, naltrexone.
  • Behavioral strategies.
  • Mutual support groups

We’ll discuss the grounding techniques a resident can use when emotionally stimulated and experiencing distress. Integrating grounding strategies into care plans will give staff more capacity to uphold trauma-informed principles such as safety, trust, empowerment and collaboration.

Objectives:

1. Define the concept of grounding and why this method of distraction supports a person with an activated nervous system.
2. Name three grounding strategies.
3. Consider collaborating with residents and their families to integrate these strategies into the care plan.

This interactive virtual training will review the importance of person-centered care, offer practical tools to identify and mitigate the impact of implicit bias around mental health, address substance use disorders and misuse, and inform on how cultural humility improves the staff/resident connection.

Learning Objectives:

1. Describe person-centered care as it relates to nursing facilities.
2. Identify how bias induces assumptions that impact communications and rapport building.
3. Identify the benefits of an “individualized” approach to resident engagement.
4. Learn how person-centered strategies can help residents achieve care plan goals.