Reporting Major Incidents, Adverse Incidents & Facility Emergency Procedures
Tracking # 20-1348651
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Program Objectives:
- Define Incident Reporting: Explain how incident reporting supports resident safety, quality improvement, and regulatory compliance.
- Differentiate Routine Incidents vs. Florida Adverse Incidents: Apply statutory criteria to distinguish routine incidents from Florida adverse incidents in nursing homes and assisted living facilities.
- Identify Adverse Incident Outcomes Requiring Escalation: Recognize outcomes requiring escalation, including serious injury, transfer to a higher level of care due to the incident, law enforcement involvement, and elopement with risk of harm.
- Apply Correct Reporting Timelines and Required Elements: Follow ALF and nursing home reporting timelines and required report content, including preliminary and full reporting expectations where applicable.
- Demonstrate Accurate Documentation Practices: Document resident assessment, interventions, notifications, and outcomes in the clinical record while completing incident reports through the facility reporting process.
- Describe Core Investigation Steps: Perform fact collection, interviews, evidence preservation, timeline development, and identification of contributing factors.
- Use Root Cause Thinking to Select Corrective Actions: Choose corrective actions that reduce recurrence and strengthen safety systems.
- Explain How QAPI Uses Incident Trends: Describe how QAPI uses incident patterns to prioritize performance improvement projects and measure outcomes over time.
- Recognize Major Incident and Emergency Triggers: Outline chain-of-command escalation and documentation expectations during operational disruptions.
Course Overview:
Incident reporting is a key part of resident safety and quality improvement in long term care. This course explains how to recognize and respond to safety events, complete incident reports correctly, and determine when an event meets Florida's definition of an adverse incident in assisted living facilities and nursing homes. Learners will review required reporting timelines and essential report content, then walk through practical steps for incident management, including immediate response, notifications, documentation, investigation, and corrective action planning. The course also connects incident reporting to QAPI by showing how facilities use trends to prioritize improvements, reduce repeat events, and strengthen emergency preparedness through clear escalation, chain of command response, and reliable documentation
$6.00
1 Hours
Reporting Major Incidents, Adverse Incidents & Facility Emergency Procedures is offered in the packages below
Complete ALF Admins Package
$29
19 Hrs