Weight Loss Prevention
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MONITOR QUALITY TO PROTECT INVESTMENT IN NEW INTERVENTIONS
If your staff has accomplished Steps 1 (Assessment), 2 (Feeding Assistance Trials), and 3 (Staffing Strategies), then your facility has made a significant investment in improving the quality of feeding assistance for residents. All that time and money will go to waste, however, unless you conduct regular checks to make sure staff continue to provide quality care. Most nursing homes skip this step only to pay a price for their negligence: studies show that in the absence of quality control assessment, nurse aides do not consistently provide or accurately document the delivery of feeding assistance either during or between meals.
Evidently, old habits are hard to break and new ones are hard to maintain if you don't get timely feedback about how you're doing, including reinforcement for doing things right and recommendations for improvement if you're doing things wrong. While frequent quality monitoring is absolutely essential at the start of a new program, the good news is that most facilities can get by with less in just a few weeks, once new care patterns are established.
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