Challenges For Aged Care Nurse Managers

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Challenges For Aged Care Nurse Managers

• LEANNE MORTON
• Amity Group Pty Ltd

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Presentation Overview

• Workforce Issues
• Dealing with residents their families
• Compliance
• Funding
• Models of care
• Where to from here?
• Why work in Aged Care?

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Workforce Issues

• Recruitment
• Unregulated workers
• Rates of pay
• Attitudes of other professionals
• Lean management structures
• Increasing acuity of residents

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Dealing with residents their families

• Demystifying Residential Aged Care
• Its a partnership
• Financial
• It takes time
• Complaints handling
• Community expectations

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Legislative Compliance

• Commonwealth State Local governments
• Aged Care Standards Agency
• Organisation wide Accreditation survey
• Support visits
• Spot Checks
• Complaints investigation
• Building Certification
• Public Relations

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Funding

• Optimising occupancy
• Residents Classification Scale (RCS)
• Documentation by clinicians and unregulated Staff
• Invoice for care
• Validation 25
• Appeals
• Aged Care Funding Instrument (ACFI)
• Funding gaps

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Models of Care

• Centered on the individual
• Partnerships with families
• Residents Rights Responsibilities

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Where to from here?

• Opportunities for partnerships with local Health
  Services
• Slow stream rehabilitation
• Slow stream palliation
• Staff recruitment and retention- opportunity for
  workforce partnerships with local AHS

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Why work in Aged Care?

• Truly centred on care for individual residents
• A broadened perspective of services
• The private sector experience
• But mostly, its a great privilege

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Thank you

• Questions?