Learning Session 5 | Sharing Call: Reducing Inappropriate Antipsychotic Medications
Lake Superior QIN invites you to the final part of the National Nursing Home Quality Care Collaborative's Learning Session 5: This sharing call is designed to give nursing home teams an opportunity to collaborate with colleagues regarding successes and barriers related to the reduction of antipsychotic medications. In addition to hearing from other nursing home teams, Lake Superior QIN experts and Dr. Jane Pederson will be available on the call to help nursing homes overcome barriers they may be having. To get the most out of this collaborative opportunity, come prepared to share successful strategies you have implemented and/or barriers you are encountering in your work to reduce the use of these medications.
Learning Session 5 | Webinar 3: Strategies for Reducing Antipsychotics: A Consultant Pharmacist Perspective
Hear successful strategies from a consultant pharmacist on identifying, reporting and treating dementia behavioral expressions in long-term care residents. Learn non-pharmacological interventions that can address a resident’s dementia while reducing overall antipsychotic medication use. This learning session is part of the National Nursing Home Quality Care Collaborative's Learning Session 5.
Learning Session 5 | Webinar 2: Navigating the Mental Health Complexities of a Progressively Younger Long-Term Care Population
Lake Superior QIN invites you to the second webinar of Learning Session 5: The demographics of long-term care populations are changing: increasingly more younger adults are in need of long-term care. This webinar will cover strategies to identify and address the mental health complexities in this younger long-term care population in order to improve their overall quality of life.
Learning Session 5 | Webinar 1: Reducing the Use of Antipsychotic Medications Using QAPI Principles
The National Nursing Home Quality Care Collaborative invites you to the first webinar of Learning Session 5. Dementia care is the topic of this webinar, with special emphasis on reducing unnecessary antipsychotic medications and how QAPI can help homes achieve this reduction.