Choice and Preference Toileting Assistance (CAPTA) Coaching Course

The California Association of Long Term Care Medicine and the USC Davis School of Gerontology invite nursing home staff to enroll in a distance coaching course on improving incontinence care—the Choice and Preference Toileting Assistance course, or CAPTA.

Course Description and Objectives

In this course, part of an applied research project, Dr. John F. Schnelle, director of the Vanderbilt Center on Quality of Aging and a nationally recognized expert on nursing home incontinence care, will teach you how to conduct an evidence-base toileting trial and use the results to individual incontinence care for residents.   At the end of this course, participants will be able to:

• Conduct a best-practice toileting trial, in accordance with new toileting items on the MDS 3.0
• Assess residents’ preferences for incontinence care, in accordance with surveyor guidelines and principals of person-directed care
• Conduct prompted voiding, a restorative management strategy that has been shown to significantly reduce wet episodes among responsive incontinent residents
• Target incontinence care so that residents receive individualized services that are feasible for staff to provide

The course features a series of 6 webinars, each 40 minutes long, held over 3 months, with follow-up coaching calls from project staff. Over the course, participants will learn how to conduct an evidence-based toileting trial and will also receive ongoing support and assistance to implement this recommended care practice. Online training materials and the assessment forms needed to implement best-practice toileting trials will be provided.

Who May Participate:

Any nursing home serving long-stay incontinent residents may participate. Participating facilities must assign a nurse supervisor to serve as a project champion, obtain high level leadership support and commit to completing the course. The nurse supervisor is expected to attend all webinars, oversee implementation assignments, and submit a sample of completed assignments.  

To Register:

To register, a nursing home supervisor should review the Information Sheet and complete and submit the Course Application.

Fees and CEs:

The course is offered at no charge.  Enrollment is limited to 20 nursing homes in California.  

Schedule:

The course is scheduled to start August 29, 2012 and end November 7, 2012.  Each week features either: a webinar lecture, coaching session, coaching phone call, or web-based reporting assignment. 

Technology Requirements:

A computer or telephone is required to participate in the course’s webinars. An unlimited number of staff members may participate if a computer or speaker phone is used. Participating nurse supervisors must have access to an Internet-connected computer and be able to use email.

Disclosures:

There are no conflicts of interest among course planners or presenters. The course is not sponsored or supported by a commercial entity.  The course is funded by a quality improvement grant from the American Medical Directors Association.

For More Information:

Contact Principal Investigator Anna Rahman at (513) 258-4421 or [email protected]