Resident to Resident
negative, often aggressive, interactions between residents in long-term care com- munities. These incidents include physical, verbal and sexual abuse and are likely to cause emotional and/or physical harm.
What is a resident to resident?
is the non-consensual sexual contact of any type with a resident.
What is sexual abuse?
New employees will be educated by the department manager, or designee, on issues related to abuse prohibition practices and abuse reporting requirements during initial orientation. Annual education through Educare and training will be provided to all existing employees. Supervisors will provide education as situations arise.
What is training?
a resident who is to be removed from the common areas and to be kept within an arm lengths reach.
What is a 1:1?
dementia. male, first-born, demanding personality, depression, past military experience, loud noise, or too cold/hot
What are characteristics of an individual likely to be at high risk for resident-to-residents?
hitting, kicking, punching, slapping, spitting or other physical contact intended to hurt another individual?
What is resident to resident physical abuse?
means the use of oral, written or gestured language that willfully includes disparaging and derogatory terms to residents or their families, or within their hearing distance regardless of their age, ability to comprehend, or disability
What is verbal abuse?
The facility will provide resident, families and staff information on how and to whom they may report concerns, incidents and grievances without the fear of retribution, and will provide feedback regarding the concerns that have been expressed. The facility will identify, correct and intervene in situations in which abuse, neglect and/or misappropriation of resident property is more likely to occur.
What is prevention?
physical, social and leisure activities that are tailored to the person's needs and preferences.
What is a meaningful activity?
What is injury of unknown origin?
What is verbal resident to resident abuse?
includes hitting, slapping, pinching, kicking, and controlling behavior through corporal punishment.
What is physical abuse?
RiverView Care Center will screen employees for a history of abuse, neglect or mistreating residents by attempting to obtain information from previous employers and/or current employers, and checking with the appropriate licensing boards and registries.
What is screening?
The reduction or removal of environmental cues can benefit the delivery of rehabilitation interventions by creating an environment in which individuals can focus their attention on the task at hand.
What is a low stimulation environment?
Screening, training, prevention, identification, investigation, protection, reporting and response
What are the seven components of abuse prevention?
Any type of unwanted touching, caressing or sexual act.
What is resident to resident sexual abuse?
includes, but is not limited to, humiliation, harassment, threats of punishment or deprivation, or abuse that is facilitated or caused by nursing home staff taking or using photographs or recording in any manner that would demean or humiliate a resident.
What is mental abuse?
The facility will identify events, occurrences, patterns and trends that may constitute: neglect, abuse, misappropriation of property, injuries of unknown origin, exploitation, mistreatment.
What is identification?
multiple staff members approaching a resident at the same time in an effort to de-escalate the situation.
A check will be conducted on all prospective employees as provided by the facility’s policy on criminal background checks. A significant finding on the background check will result in denied employment consistent with the criminal background check policy in accordance with State and Federal Regulation.
What is a background check?
the individual's act was deliberate - not inadvertent or accidental. Regardless of whether or not the individual intended to inflict injury or harm. (a resident whose involuntary movements cause him/her to accidentally strike another resident has not committed a willful act).
refers to the separation of a resident from other residents or from his/her room, or confinement to his/her room against the resident’s will or the will of the resident’s legal representative. Emergency or short term monitored separation will not be considered involuntary seclusion and may be permitted if used for a limited period of time as a therapeutic intervention as long as the least restrictive approach is used for the minimum amount of time.
What is involuntary seclusion?
The facility will protect residents from harm during an investigation.
What is protection?
medications use to treat behaviors when non-pharmacological interventions are not successful.
What are antipsychotic medications?
an injury involving extreme physical pain; involving substantial risk of death; involving protracted loss or impairment of the function of a bodily member, organ, or mental faculty; or requiring medical intervention such as surgery, hospitalization, or physical rehabilitation
What is serious bodily injury?