See what nursing management can do to make bathing a better experience.

When it comes to bathing in your facility, think there’s no other choice but to persist with a resident who is utterly distraught over the idea of bathing? Think again. Learn a new way to apply the "culture-change" model to bathing the elderly in this 1-hour presentation with renowned nurse Joanne Rader. Using  her own ground-breaking research on bathing without a battle, she'll reveal the pitfalls of task-driven care dictated by routines and offer innovative alternatives -- that get nursing management involved. Even better, you can apply the key points of this audioconference to all ADL care and other services -- and turn the vaguer concepts of culture change into practical reality.

Here’s a sampling of what you’ll learn:

• It's not just about the CNAs: Key ways nursing management must get involved to make bathing better.
• Nursing actions that support decision making at the bedside to create person-directed bathing.
• Evidence- based  practices that create pleasant -- or at least tolerable -- bathing experiences for residents and staff.
• Reliable ways to decrease aggressive (self-defensive, protective) behaviors related to bathing.
• A closer look at your facility's organizational structure -- and how it contributes to a friendlier bathing experience.
• How to jumpstart the culture change process for bathing.

Who should attend? People in the position to make changes in a long-term care facility's organizational culture: directors of nursing, charge nurses, department heads and administrators.

Your registration includes:

• "Risk-free guarantee. If you aren't completely satisfied with your purchase, we will refund your money."
• Complimentary attendee package, including the speaker's complete presentation handouts. Keep this quick reference tool close by for future use!
• "Complete training for your entire staff: Buy it once, use it again and again. Our CDs and transcripts are an unbeatable on-site training tool for you and all your staff."

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Joanne Rader, RN, MN graduated from the University of Maryland with a Bachelor of Sciences in Nursing in 1968, and from Oregon Health Sciences University with a Masters in Psychiatric, Mental Health Nursing in 1979. She worked as a clinical specialist in mental health nursing in nursing homes for 27 years, in addition to being an Associate Professor at Oregon Health Sciences University, School of Nursing for 20 years.   She is currently an independent consultant.

She was project director on a 3-year grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (1991-1994) to develop strategies to assist Oregon nursing homes in reducing the use of physical restraints and inappropriate psychoactive medications.  She was a co-investigator for a research study designed to reduce the aggressive behaviors during bathing of persons with dementia. She was also co-investigator and interventionist for another NINR funded study looking at pain and its relationship to behavioral symptoms during morning care.

She has published numerous articles and books addressing the emotional needs and behavioral symptoms of persons with dementia including Individualized Dementia Care: Creative, Compassionate Approaches, and Bathing Without a Battle which received AJN Book of the Year awards in 1996 and 2002. She was also chosen "Distinguished Alumni of 2004" by Oregon Health and Science University, School of Nursing.

As a volunteer, founding member and board member of the Pioneer Network, she is working to change the culture of aging in America.