[2181] High Tech Pediatrics at Home - It is More Than ABC's
Summary: This program addresses key issues in delivery of compliant and competent pediatric services to medically fragile children.
HCSSA Topic(s) Addressed:
- §558.259[d][4]agency responsibilities
- §558.260[a][2]development and interpretation of agency policies
- §558.260[a][6]risk assessment and management
- §558.260[a][8]skills for working with clients, families, and other professional service providers
Faculty: Smith, Ellie
Program Description: With changes to Medicare, increased
fraud scrutiny and desire for increased revenue streams, agencies look to pediatric programs to diversify.
Technology is certainly making management of children with Tracheostomies,
Ventilator dependence and other complex needs easier, and reimbursement for PDN looks attractive, but liability,
regulatory requirements, staff competency, documentation, and care management are necessary at more than basic levels
to meet quality of care and safety needs of these medically complex children. This program addresses key issues in delivery of compliant and competent
pediatric services to medically fragile children.
- What are the high risk skills?
- How do you determine competency?
- Who are qualified staff? What are key clinical skills to manage trach and vent dependent children at home?
- What are documentation challenges to address?
- What is enough supervision for safe delivery of care?
- How can positive outcomes be best achieved?
- Would "minimum standards" be enough for your child?
Program Objectives: Upon completion of this program, the viewer will be able to:
- Identify three methods of determining nursing competence.
- Evaluate the reference for Home and Community Support Services Agencies (HCSSA) minimum standards for licensure relating to staff.
- Analyze three key elements of a compliant pediatric tracheostomy and ventilator competency program.
- Identify three areas of high risk in providing pediatric tracheostomy and ventilator care.
- Demonstrate pediatric nursing ventilator essential skills and competency.
- Describe three key behaviors to observe during Registered Nurse (RN) supervisory and reassessment visits to children with tracheostomies.
- Evaluate challenges to implementation of a pediatric ventilator competency program.
About the Presenter: Ellie Smith, RN, BSN, LMSW, Owner of Options Home Care Solutions,
is an experienced consultant and educator in pediatric nursing clinical skills and home care practice. Over the past 30+ years she has been
a part of creating and evaluating pediatric home care programs across the southwest. Her years of experience as a pediatric intensive care
and home care clinical educator, home care manager, and consultant provide a rich foundation for her information filled presentations. Ms.
Smith has developed and published the Pediatric Skilled Nursing Procedures Manual for Home Health and many other well received tools for
successful documentation, clinical competency and quality driven pediatric home care practice.
Education-Training Credits:
- 1.50 Hr(s) HCSSA Administrator/Alternate
[2181] High Tech Pediatrics at Home - It is More Than ABC's
