Psychosocial Care Plans for Long Term Care: Social Service Care Plans

Debra Collins, RN, RAC-CT

Jan 2014 · LTCS Books

About this ebook

This manual provides information and tools to improve Social Service  assessments and interventions for meeting psychosocial needs. Regulations, survey protocols, and excerpts from the RAI User’s Manual give the basis of long term care industry standards and quality of care. Social Service care plans are provided for every possible problem generated from the MDS 3.0 assessment entries. Assessment forms and Quality Assurance audits are included, as well as a complete copy of the Psychosocial Outcome Severity Guide. Social Service care plans and forms have been updated to ensure compliance with the change to MDS version 3.0 and with all of the federal regulations and guidelines updated during the past year. Text, care plans, and forms specific to certain medications in the Psychotropic Medication section reflect changes to the State Operations Manual, Appendix P,MedicationPassand Pharmacy Services. The CD-ROM contains all of the forms and care plans from the book, and these can easily be made resident and facility specific using a word processor.

About the author

Debra Collins, RN, RAC- CT has written and published 14 manuals for long term care and home health care documentation The nursing care plans, forms, policies, and inservices are resources for Directors of Nursing, Administrators, MDS Coordinators, Social Services Directors, Activities Directors, Staff Development, Quality Assurance, and Infection Control Nurses. The books are used by over one third of long term care facilities in the United States, and thousands of home health agencies.