Inpatient Rehabilitation Center Refresher

This week we've engaged staff and leadership of the IRC in refresher courses in FIM scoring as well as rehabilitation nursing competencies.  The consultants also reviewed work processes and operational details to provide suggestions for improvement.  (Prior to arriving they'd sampled some of our charts for compliance to regulations and indications of quality.)  I'm expecting a full report in the near future, but my own observations are that we have an extremely solid foundation of staff and skills, that those who attended the training (nearly everybody did!) were very engaged in the learning, and the information provided will be a stimulus to allow us to move to the next level of excellence.

Thanks go out to Angie Phillips and Pat Heimann for the great job they did in providing consulation and education for our unit.