Course Description:

Skilled nursing facilities are required to develop a care plan for each beneficiary and provide services in accordance with the care plan. Several studies and investigations have found that SNFs had deficiencies in doing just that, resulting in inadequate care to those residents. This course will describe the purpose for and principles of care planning. Entry-level and intermediate-level clinicians will be able to describe how care plans ensure the team is working in tandem toward the patient’s goals. The course will provide examples of how incorporating resident-centered goals requires interprofessional collaboration and how successful interprofessional collaboration requires a shared, patient-centered vision.