Restorative Programs: Dining and Feeding for the CNA
Hours: 1.00
While the primary purpose of eating is to provide our bodies with essential nutrients that improve overall health, eating also serves a sociocultural role and is a source of joy, comfort, and pleasure for many. Because the ability to eat independently is one of the most basic of skills learned at an early age, a decrease in this ability can lead to feeling a loss of control, independence, and self-worth. It can also negatively affect residents’ nutritional status.
It is important to promote residents’ ability to feed themselves as independently as possible by utilizing restorative nursing programs. While you may not be the one actively helping residents eat, you are responsible for overseeing restorative programs that address eating and, thus, will benefit from this course.
The goal of this course is to provide direct care workers in long-term care settings with the fundamentals of restorative eating programs.
While the primary purpose of eating is to provide our bodies with essential nutrients that improve overall health, eating also serves a sociocultural role and is a source of joy, comfort, and pleasure for many. Because the ability to eat independently is one of the most basic of skills learned at an early age, a decrease in this ability can lead to feeling a loss of control, independence, and self-worth. It can also negatively affect residents’ nutritional status. It is important to promote residents’ ability to feed themselves as independently as possible by utilizing restorative nursing programs. While you may not be the one actively helping residents eat, you are responsible for overseeing restorative programs that address eating and, thus, will benefit from this course. The goal of this course is to provide direct care workers in long-term care settings with the fundamentals of restorative eating programs.
Florida Board of Nursing - Certified Nursing Assistants
This is not an accredited course for professional license renewal. Florida CNAs may use this inservice toward meeting their annual inservice requirement.
This activity is approved for 1.0000 contact hours.
Describe three approaches to care in restorative eating programs.
Identify two requirements for documentation of restorative eating programs.
Outline:
Section 1: Introduction
About This Course
Learning Objectives
Section 2: Eating
The Importance of Eating
Comfort and Health
Recognizing Nutritional Problems
Aging and Eating
Factors Affecting Intake
Review
Summary
Section 3: Restorative Dining
Resident-Centered Approach
The Dining Experience
Encourage Independence
Adaptive Devices
Meet Lottie
Posture and Seating
Dementia
Mealtime Wandering
Pocketing
Get Help
Talk with Residents
Review
Summary
Section 4: Restorative Eating
One Goal
Candidates
Difficulty With Swallowing and Feeding Tubes
Unlearning and Relearning
Review
Summary
Section 5: Documentation
Documentation
Documenting Progress
Assistance Categories
Review
Summary
Section 6: Conclusion
Course Summary
Course Contributor
Resources
References
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Instructor: Jessica Peckham, RN-BC, CCM
Ms. Peckham has over 11 years’ experience as Board Certified RN and is a Certified Case Manager providing patient-centered advocacy and care. Her nursing and case management expertise have been used in the critical care, ambulatory care, community health, long-term care, case management, and clinical program development settings. She has worked as a clinical manager and implemented quality improvement research programs improving the continuity of care of patients and families managing complex, chronic conditions. She was integral in the coordination of a population health program supported by CMS’ Next Generation ACO which included highly complex Medicare patients transitioning from hospital to LTC and back home when able. In addition, she has worked supporting the health of migrant farmworkers and refugees throughout North Carolina and created professional development training for improved care and health equity for the LGBTQ and other underserved populations.
Ms. Peckham is currently working as a nurse consultant for a clinical care management software company and provides ongoing subject matter expertise to Relias and other clinical training and development organizations. Ms. Peckham was recently published in the Tarheel Nurse journal and continues to write in support of the nursing profession. She is completing her MSN in Population Health and Informatics and spends her free time volunteering with the Red Cross as a Disaster Health Services RN and has been deployed throughout the United States.
Disclosure: Jessica Peckham, RN-BC, CCM has no Relevant Financial or Non-Financial Relationship with ineligible companies to disclose.
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