Eight Goals
Goal 1 - Staff Turnover: Nursing homes will take steps to minimize staff
turnover in order to maintain a stable workforce to care for residents.
Goal 2 - Consistent Assignment: Being regularly cared for by the same caregiver
is essential to quality of care and quality of life. To maximize quality, as
well as resident and staff relationships, the majority of nursing homes will
employ “consistent assignment” of CNAs.
Goal 3 - Restraints: Nursing home residents are independent to the best of
their ability and rarely experience daily physical restraints.
Goal 4 - Pressure Ulcers: Nursing home residents receive appropriate care
to prevent and appropriately treat pressure ulcers when they develop.
Goal 5 - Pain: Nursing home residents will receive appropriate care to
prevent and minimize episodes of moderate or severe pain. Objectives for long
stay and short stay are slightly different.
- Goal 5A: Long stay (longer than 90 days) nursing home residents will
receive appropriate care to prevent and minimize episodes of moderate or
severe pain.
- GOAL 5B: People who come from a hospital to a nursing homes for a short
stay will receive appropriate care to prevent and minimize episodes of
moderate or severe pain.
Goal 6 - Advance Care Planning: Following admission and prior to completing
or updating the plan of care, all nursing home residents will have the opportunity to
discuss their goals for care including their preferences for advance care
planning with an appropriate member of the healthcare team. Those preferences
should be recorded in their medical record and used in the development of their
plan of care.
Goal 7 - Resident/Family Satisfaction: Nursing
home staff will assess
resident and family experience of care and incorporate this information into
their quality improvement activities.
Goal 8 - Staff Satisfaction:
Nursing home administrators will assess staff
satisfaction with their work environment at least annually and upon separation
and incorporate this information into their quality improvement activities.
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