Welcome to the World of Dietary! LTC Refresher Course

Presentation Date: December 12, 2024

Presented By:

• Cara W. Clark, RD, LD, LNHA - CEO/Founder of CWC Consulting Services, LLC dba DigitalRD
• Janine Lehman, RN, RAC-CT, CLNC - Director of Legal Nurse Consulting, Proactive LTC Consulting

Course Description:

Dietary department need a refresh? Sharpen your dietary knowledge and establish effective dietary department systems when you join Proactive for this virtual workshop. This 4-hour training will review team building, food service regulations, documentation requirements, IDT collaboration, preventing common deficiencies and much more! Co-presented by a dual Registered Dietitian and Nursing Home Administrator and a nurse/legal nurse consultant, your team will gain insights into the dietitian role, effective dietary systems and recommended QA oversight and management duties of the facility administrator! Don’t miss this unique opportunity to elevate the quality of your dietary department.

Learning Objectives

1. Understand the importance of staff development, training, and teamwork in the dietary department.
2. Identify the regulatory requirements pertinent to the dietary manager role.
3. Identify survey procedures surveyors will follow to assess compliance with dietary related requirements.
4. Recognize areas of common deficiencies and how to avoid them.
5. Discuss integration of systems between nursing and dietary departments.
6. Describe best practices for implementing and/or improving assessment and documentation practices pertinent to systems related to nutrition and hydration.
7. Understand the role of the dietary manager in collaborating with the IDT to manage systems related to nutrition and hydration and reducing weight loss in LTC facilities

CE's are available for those that listen to the sessions LIVE.

Continuing Education Information

Nurses:  The Kansas Healthcare Association is approved as a provider of continuing nursing education by the Kansas State Board of Nursing. Each offering is approved for 4.0 contact hour applicable for RN and LPN relicensure (KSBN LT0030-0338)

Administrators:  This course offering is approved for 4.0 continuing education clock hour for each webinar for the Kansas licensed adult care home administrators by the Kansas Department of Aging and Disability Services.  KDADS Health Occupations Credentialing Approved Sponsorship number:  LTS-A0001.

Operators:  This course offering is approved for 4.0 continuing education clock hour for each webinar for the Kansas licensed operators in the core area of Administration by the Kansas Department of Aging and Disability Services.  KDADS Health Occupations Credentialing Approved Sponsorship number:  LTS-A0001.

Social Workers: This course is approved for 4.0 hour of continuing education hour for each webinar for Kansas licensed Social Workers by the Kansas Behavioral Sciences Regulatory Board.  Approval number: 17-006.

Dietitians: This course is approved for up to 4.0 continuing education clock hour for each webinar for Kansas Licensed Dietitians by the Kansas Department of Aging and Disability Services. KDADs Health Occupations Credentialing Approved Sponsorship Number: LTS-A0002.

CE's will be provided to those that complete a registration and the follow up attendance verification form. Webinar log in information and dial in information will be provided prior to the webinar.