SSD Certification Course
Online!
When: Every Thursday night from 6-8pm
Begins: March 11, 2010
Ends: June 10
Where: Your home or office
How: Access to the internet and a phone line
Who: Instructor is Brooke Russo, MSW & Associates, LLC
Cost: $325
Contact: brooke@brookerusso.com
Upon completion of the course the student will be able to:
- Understand the role of the SSD as defined in F250
- Effectively interview residents to complete psychosocial assessments
- Identify the required interview techniques for the MDS 3.0
· Identify the residents’ needs: psychosocial, financial, discharge planning, home health care, and routine appointments
· Understand the SSD role with psychotropics
· Understand the RAI process: MDS (intro to 3.0), RAPs, Careplans
· Facilitate care conferences and other required meetings: psychotropics, weights, physical restraints, falls
· Coordinate and execute safe discharge planning
· Recognize the differences in needs between the frail elderly, chronically ill, cognitively impaired, dual-diagnosed, chronically mentally ill, and indigent
· Understand required concepts of documentation
· Understand possible causal factors of resident behaviors and identify non-drug interventions