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Nursing Home 5-Diamond Program

Demonstrate Your Facility’s Commitment to Patient Safety

5 Diamond Nursing Home Final

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The Nursing Home 5-Diamond Program from Quality Insights is an automated, online, national educational resource for patient safety in nursing homes. The program modules focus on appropriate medication use, rehospitalization reduction, infection control, and more.

Each module includes the tools and resources necessary to implement a specific patient safety concept.

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Who Can Participate?

Any participating long-term care facility may enroll in the program. For each module successfully completed, the facility earns one Diamond.

Upon successfully completing five modules and completing a Program Review questionnaire by all staff, the facility will earn “5-Diamond Patient Safety Facility” recognition.

This education is appropriate for all nursing home staff, including Directors of Nursing, Nursing Home Administrators, Social Workers, Frontline Staff, and Medical Directors.

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NO-COST Continuing Education Credits 

Several of the modules in the Nursing Home 5-Diamond Program offer NO-COST continuing education (CE) credits.

Please review the current list of modules below to see which courses offer free CEs and for which discipline. 

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Check out the current module list:

  1. Nursing Home 5-Diamond Culture of Safety* (Nursing, Social Worker, and Dietitian CEs available)

  2. Screening for Opioid Risk in Long-Term Care: Bringing Together Information & Knowledge (Nursing CEs available)

  3. Opioids and Benzodiazepines: The Destructive Duo (Nursing CEs available)

  4. Multidrug-Resistant Organism (MDRO) Infections: Colonized vs. Active (Nursing CEs available)

  5. Medication Adverse Events: Reducing the Risk (Nursing CEs available)

  6. Strategies for Rehospitalization Reduction (Nursing CEs available)

  7. Falls: Finding the Fix (Nursing CEs available)

  8. Taking Another Look at Antipsychotics (Nursing CEs available)

  9. Anticoagulant Adverse Drug Events (Nursing CEs available)

  10. IP Leadership: Infection Control Basics (Nursing & NAB CEs available)

  11. IP Leadership: Antibiotic Stewardship (Nursing & NAB CEs available)

  12. IP Leadership: Resident Immunizations and Vaccinations (Nursing & NAB CEs available)

  13. IP Leadership: Environmental Infection Control (Nursing & NAB CEs available)

  14. Sepsis from an Infection Preventionist Perspective

  15. Sepsis From a Medical Perspective

  16. Enhanced Barrier Precautions: An Overview

  17. Treatment Considerations in Opioid Use Disorder

  18. Non-Pharmacological Pain Management

  19. Palliative Care: Preventing Avoidable Hospitalizations

  20. Nursing Home 5 Diamond Program Review*

Quality Insights will continue to add to our Nursing Home 5-Diamond Program module catalog, so be sure to check back often to see what is new!

* Mandatory module to earn Nursing Home 5-Diamond Patient Safety status

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 Get Started Today!

Contact Quality Insights Quality Improvement Specialist Debra Wright at dwright@qualityinsights.org or call 1.800.642.8686, Ext. 7636 to provide your contact information and CCN#. She will enroll you in the program and then email you instructions.

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