“Has a trial of a toileting program been attempted..?”– MDS 3.0

The California Association of Long Term Care Medicine and the USC Davis School of Gerontology is pleased to present this online course on improving incontinence care—the Choice and Preference Toileting Assistance course, or CAPTA. Feel free to use this recorded webinar course in in-service trainings, staff conferences, and other educational forums.

Dr. John Schnelle’s research influenced the MDS’s incontinence care items.

Course Description

In this course, part of an applied research project, Dr. John F. Schnelle, director of the Vanderbilt Center on Quality of Aging and a nationally recognized expert on nursing home incontinence care, will teach you how to conduct an evidence-based toileting trial and use the results to individualize incontinence care for residents.

The course features a series of 6 recorded webinars. Three of the webinars teach nursing home staff how to conduct a three-step evidence-based toileting trial.  Each of these how-to webinars ends with an implementation assignment that asks nursing home staff members to apply what they have just learned.  Each how-to webinar is then followed by a teach-back webinar, in which resident cases and assignment results are discussed.

The Webinar Series

• Webinar 1: Implementation step 1: assessment of resident preferences for incontinence care.  Assignment: Interview at least 5 residents using the recommended interview form.
• Webinar 2: Feedback, discussion of implementation assignment.  Assignment: Read “How to Conduct a Prompted Voiding Trial,” available from the Vanderbilt Center for Quality Aging.
• Webinar 3: Implementation step 2: Conduct a 3-day toileting trial.  Assignment: Conduct toileting trials for 3-5 residents using the recommended Prompted Voiding protocol and standardized reporting form.
• Webinar 4: Feedback, discussion of toileting trial results. Implementation assignment: Continue conducting toileting trials.
• Webinar 5: Surviving the survey; documenting incontinence care plans.
• Webinar 6 (upcoming): Monitoring and maintaining effective toileting programs.Click here for our recommended monitoring form.

Disclosures:

There are no conflicts of interest among course planners or presenters. The course is notsponsored or supported by a commercial entity.  The course is funded by a quality improvement grant from the American Medical Directors Association.

For More Information:

Contact Principal Investigator Anna Rahman at (513) 258-4421 or [email protected].