transition from assisted living to skilled nursing

[flatstanley72 0]

Hello! 

 

I have just accepted a job as an Activity Director at a skilled nursing facility after working as AD in assisted living for the past year. Any tips or suggestions for making this transition successful?

 

Thanks!

[Pennie 26]

In LTC there is a lot more paperwork! The best thing I can advise is that you use your monthly calendar as your attendance sheets for the activities. Make a copy of each month calendar, one for every resident. Place these in a binder. Using a hi-light system to keep track of who did what. IE yellow active (participated in it), Green passive (came & watched) Orange refused (refused to attend) blue not OOB, OOP etc. Pink read notes (these are notes you write on the resident’s calendar for whatever reason)

When you hold the activity jot down on a piece paper or whatever way you find works best for you all the residents that attend or asked to attend & didn't etc. Later in the day when you do your paperwork pull list out & mark residents calendars.

This will help you so much when you have to do progress notes every 3 months on the resident(s). Plus you can also see at a glance if there has been a change in the resident’s attendance, which you should look into as something may be going on.

 

This may not make sense to you yet but once you get in there & start working you will have a better understanding.

Good luck

[shernandez8229 0]

Hello! 

 

I have just accepted a job as an Activity Director at a skilled nursing facility after working as AD in assisted living for the past year. Any tips or suggestions for making this transition successful?

 

Thanks!

Skilled nursing requires more paperwork, careplan meetings and daily administration meetings. I actually prefer skilled than assisted living I just left skilled facility of 13 years and now work in assisted living which I find more difficult to transition to.

[flatstanley72 0]

In LTC there is a lot more paperwork! The best thing I can advise is that you use your monthly calendar as your attendance sheets for the activities. Make a copy of each month calendar, one for every resident. Place these in a binder. Using a hi-light system to keep track of who did what. IE yellow active (participated in it), Green passive (came & watched) Orange refused (refused to attend) blue not OOB, OOP etc. Pink read notes (these are notes you write on the resident’s calendar for whatever reason)

When you hold the activity jot down on a piece paper or whatever way you find works best for you all the residents that attend or asked to attend & didn't etc. Later in the day when you do your paperwork pull list out & mark residents calendars.

This will help you so much when you have to do progress notes every 3 months on the resident(s). Plus you can also see at a glance if there has been a change in the resident’s attendance, which you should look into as something may be going on.

 

This may not make sense to you yet but once you get in there & start working you will have a better understanding.

Good luck

Thanks, Pennie! This sounds like a very helpful system. I think that is the key with anything new - figuring out a system that works. 

[flatstanley72 0]

 

Hello! 

 

I have just accepted a job as an Activity Director at a skilled nursing facility after working as AD in assisted living for the past year. Any tips or suggestions for making this transition successful?

 

Thanks!

Skilled nursing requires more paperwork, careplan meetings and daily administration meetings. I actually prefer skilled than assisted living I just left skilled facility of 13 years and now work in assisted living which I find more difficult to transition to.

 

Interesting. . .what are you finding difficult about the transition to assisted living?